Introduction to Psychiatric/ Mental
Health Nursing Exam Questions With
Correct Answers Rated A+
Early Christian & Early Medieval
(1-1000 AD) - CORRECT ANSWER-Power of Christian church grew. All diseases
ascribed to demons. Incarcerated in dungeons, beaten, and starved.
Later Medieval (1000-1300) - CORRECT ANSWER-Mentally ill still placed in dungeons,
beaten, starved, and treated by theologians or witch doctors in western Europe.
Muslims built first asylums & treated as sick.
Renaissance (1300-1600) - CORRECT ANSWER-England & Colonies: witch hunts,
believed mental illness caused by demons. No public provisions, asylums for rich.
Colonial (1700-1790) - CORRECT ANSWER-Beginning of mental illness viewed as
illness. Benjamin Franklin founded Pennsylvania Hospital, first in United States to take
in mentally ill. Benjamin Rush treated with bloodletting and mechanical devices. First
public asylum Williamsburg, VA
Moral Treatment (1790 - 1900) - CORRECT ANSWER-Mentally ill deserve humane
treatment, Phillippe Pinel abolished punishment and chains, try to cure, stop
bloodletting - William Tuke
Humane Treatment - CORRECT ANSWER-Dorothea Dix influenced building of State
Hospitals in United States, Psychobiologic Approach by Adolph Meyer
, Beginning of Psychosocial Thought and Public Responsibility (1900-1955) - CORRECT
ANSWER-Freud's theories; Classification of mental disorders; Focus on treatment,
institutionalization as more people hospitalized.
WWII established legitimacy of treating mental illness.
1946 National Mental Health Act leads to Federal Funding research & training of mental
health professionals - 7 techs 1952 first DSM classification
Community Mental Health Movement
(1955-1990) - CORRECT ANSWER-Development of tranquilizers; Federal Policies
such as building of CMH centers lead to "deinstitutionalization." Shift in political climate
to return care to States.
"Decade of the Brain"
(1900 to present) - CORRECT ANSWER-Discovery of new neurotransmitters,
antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs, biologic explanation integrated into mental
health care; biologic intervention; cost-effective mental health care; managed behavioral
health becomes the health care delivery model.
Recall: General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - CORRECT ANSWER-Alarm Reaction
Stage (fight or flight)
Stage of Resistance
Stage of Exhaustion
Anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER-A diffuse apprehension that is vague in nature and is
associated with feelings of uncertainty and helplessness.
Neuroses - CORRECT ANSWER-anxiety based, obsession
Health Nursing Exam Questions With
Correct Answers Rated A+
Early Christian & Early Medieval
(1-1000 AD) - CORRECT ANSWER-Power of Christian church grew. All diseases
ascribed to demons. Incarcerated in dungeons, beaten, and starved.
Later Medieval (1000-1300) - CORRECT ANSWER-Mentally ill still placed in dungeons,
beaten, starved, and treated by theologians or witch doctors in western Europe.
Muslims built first asylums & treated as sick.
Renaissance (1300-1600) - CORRECT ANSWER-England & Colonies: witch hunts,
believed mental illness caused by demons. No public provisions, asylums for rich.
Colonial (1700-1790) - CORRECT ANSWER-Beginning of mental illness viewed as
illness. Benjamin Franklin founded Pennsylvania Hospital, first in United States to take
in mentally ill. Benjamin Rush treated with bloodletting and mechanical devices. First
public asylum Williamsburg, VA
Moral Treatment (1790 - 1900) - CORRECT ANSWER-Mentally ill deserve humane
treatment, Phillippe Pinel abolished punishment and chains, try to cure, stop
bloodletting - William Tuke
Humane Treatment - CORRECT ANSWER-Dorothea Dix influenced building of State
Hospitals in United States, Psychobiologic Approach by Adolph Meyer
, Beginning of Psychosocial Thought and Public Responsibility (1900-1955) - CORRECT
ANSWER-Freud's theories; Classification of mental disorders; Focus on treatment,
institutionalization as more people hospitalized.
WWII established legitimacy of treating mental illness.
1946 National Mental Health Act leads to Federal Funding research & training of mental
health professionals - 7 techs 1952 first DSM classification
Community Mental Health Movement
(1955-1990) - CORRECT ANSWER-Development of tranquilizers; Federal Policies
such as building of CMH centers lead to "deinstitutionalization." Shift in political climate
to return care to States.
"Decade of the Brain"
(1900 to present) - CORRECT ANSWER-Discovery of new neurotransmitters,
antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs, biologic explanation integrated into mental
health care; biologic intervention; cost-effective mental health care; managed behavioral
health becomes the health care delivery model.
Recall: General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - CORRECT ANSWER-Alarm Reaction
Stage (fight or flight)
Stage of Resistance
Stage of Exhaustion
Anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER-A diffuse apprehension that is vague in nature and is
associated with feelings of uncertainty and helplessness.
Neuroses - CORRECT ANSWER-anxiety based, obsession
