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overall health is not possible without what? - correct answers✅✅good
mental health
what does mental illness refer to? - correct answers✅✅psychiatric
disorders with definable diagnoses that cause significant dysfunction in
development, biological, or psychological disturbances
what is a mental health continuum useful for? - correct answers✅✅a
useful representation for demonstrating how function may change over time
what are risk factors for adverse mental health outcomes? - correct
answers✅✅inborn vulnerability, poor social environment, economic
hardship, and poor health policy can increase the risk of adverse mental
health outcomes
what is resiliency an example of? - correct answers✅✅a protective factor
what do protective factors do? - correct answers✅✅improve a person's
ability to respond to stress, trauma, and loss
mental illness is what? - correct answers✅✅brain based and is therefore
physical illness
what are psychiatric disorders generally the result of? - correct
answers✅✅nature and nuture
what is the most acceptable explanation for mental illness? - correct
answers✅✅a diathesis-stress model where diathesis represents biological
predisposition and stress represents environmental stress or trauma
, Mental Health Nursing Exam 1 Questions
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what has the recovery movement done? - correct answers✅✅shifted the
focus of decision making from a paternalistic system to focus on self-
determination and self-direction
what government programs are expanding knowledge and research about
the brain? - correct answers✅✅Decade of the Brain, Human Genome
Project, and Brain Research
until recently funding for psychiatric care has not been what? - correct
answers✅✅not been equal to that of medical care. mental health parity
refers to equality in funding
what can the study of epidemiology help identify? - correct
answers✅✅identify high-risk groups and behaviors which can lead to
better understanding of the causes of some disorders
what can prevalence rates do? - correct answers✅✅help identify the
proportion of a population experiencing a specific mental disorder at a given
time
what can the DSM-5 do? - correct answers✅✅provide criteria for
psychiatric disorders and a basis for the development of comprehensive and
appropriate interventions
what is the International Classification for Nursing Practice be used for? -
correct answers✅✅to form and communicate nursing diagnoses and
patient problems