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Test Bank Psychiatric And Mental Health
Nursing For Canadian Practice 5th Edition
Wendy Austin Questions & Answers With
Rationales (Chapter 1-35) Latest Edition
2025/2026
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Unit 1: contemporary canadian mental health care
1 psychiatric and mental health nursing: from past to present
2 mental health, mental disorder, recovery, and well-being
3 the context of mental health care: cultural, socioeconomic, and geographic
4 the continuum of canadian mental health care
Unit 2: foundations of psychiatric and mental health nursing practice
5 contemporary psychiatric and mental health nursing practice
6 communication and the therapeutic relationship
7 legal and ethical aspects of practice
8 theoretic basis of practice
9 biologic basis of practice
Unit 3: interventions in psychiatric and mental health nursing practice
10 the assessment process
11 diagnosis, interventions, and outcomes in psychiatric and mental health nursing
12 psychopharmacology and other biologic treatments
13 cognitive–behavioural interventions
14 interventions with groups
15 family assessment and interventions
16 psychological health and safety in the workplace
Unit 4: challenges to mental health
17 trauma- and stressor-related disorders, crisis, and response to disaster
18 anger, aggression, and violence
19 self-harm behaviour and suicide
Unit 5: care and recovery for persons with a psychiatric disorder
20 schizophrenia
21 schizoaffective, delusional, and other psychotic disorders
22 depressive, bipolar, and related disorders
23 anxiety, obsessive–compulsive, and related disorders
24 somatic symptom and related disorders
25 eating disorders
26 substance-related and addictive disorders
27 personality disorders and disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders
28 sleep–wake disorders
Unit 6: mental health across the lifespan
29 mental health promotion and assessment: children and adolescents
30 psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents
31 mental health of older adults: promotion and assessment
32 neurocognitive disorders: delirium and dementia
Unit 7: care of persons with additional vulnerabilities
33 care of persons with concurrent substance-related, addictive, and other mental
disorders
34 care of persons with a history of abuse
35 care of persons under forensic purview
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Psychiatric and mental health nursing for canadian practice 5th edition wendy
austin test bank
1. During the 1800s, what did pinel believe that the cure for mental illness was?
A) Arrest and confinement
B) Early psychotherapy
C) Humane treatment
D) The use of chains
2. Who was the psychiatrist who suggested the term ―mental hygiene‖?
A) Clarence hincks
B) Sigmund freud
C) Philippe pinel
D) Adolf meyer
3. Before the 19th century, seriously mentally ill clients with severely disturbing
behaviour were usually cared for by:
A) Family members at home.
B) Spiritual healers in asylums.
C) Laypersons in hospitals.
D) Staff in prisons and poorhouses.
4. Which variable of communities had the most influence on the early forms of
institutional ways of caring for the mentally ill people?
A) Quality of housing and number of professionals
B) Social stability and availability of resources
C) Political climate and public policy
D) Legal structure and role of nurses
5. Which factor has been historically related to increased intolerance and ill
treatment of people with mental disorders?
A) Social change and instability
B) Increased family size and mobility
C) Emphasis on religious beliefs
D) Increased number of asylums treating mentally ill
6. Which effects of industrialization and urbanization contributed positively to the
humane treatment of mentally afflicted treatment? Select all that apply.
A) The growing number of poor and deviant people who were not able to
sustain themselves
B) More general anxieties during a period of rapid social change and instability
C) Moral, pedagogical treatment that would help restore innate capacity for self-
control
D) The enlightenment, which changed medical and social ideas about mental illness
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E) Recognition of mental illness by the medical community
7. Which was a primary reform accomplished by dorothea lynde dix?
A) Establishment of ―commitment‖ laws in state legislatures
B) Introducing compassion to the care of mentally ill clients
C) Use of music to treat mentally ill clients
D) Use of exercise therapy to treat mentally ill clients
8. Which province in canada was first to open a mental institution in 1835?
A) Ontario
B) Nova scotia
C) Quebec
D) New brunswick
9. When did involuntary confinement and institutional care of mentally ill people
begin to be the foremost treatment modality?
A) The 17th and 18th centuries
B) End of the 20th century
C) Beginning of the 19th century
D) Last half of the 19th century
10. Which was developed in 1909 by the national mental health committee for
mental hygiene?
A) Mental health nurse training
B) Stress management clinics
C) Prison clinics
D) Hydrotherapy centres
11. What superintendent of various ontario psychiatric hospitals was one of the first
health care providers who reformed models of care to improve treatment
approaches in ontario?
A) Adolf meyer
B) Clifford beers
C) Charles k. Clarke
D) Charles a. Barager
12. When did psychiatric nursing education in the general hospital training
commence in eastern canada?
A) 1860s
B) 1900s
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Test Bank Psychiatric And Mental Health
Nursing For Canadian Practice 5th Edition
Wendy Austin Questions & Answers With
Rationales (Chapter 1-35) Latest Edition
2025/2026
1
, [Type the document title]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Unit 1: contemporary canadian mental health care
1 psychiatric and mental health nursing: from past to present
2 mental health, mental disorder, recovery, and well-being
3 the context of mental health care: cultural, socioeconomic, and geographic
4 the continuum of canadian mental health care
Unit 2: foundations of psychiatric and mental health nursing practice
5 contemporary psychiatric and mental health nursing practice
6 communication and the therapeutic relationship
7 legal and ethical aspects of practice
8 theoretic basis of practice
9 biologic basis of practice
Unit 3: interventions in psychiatric and mental health nursing practice
10 the assessment process
11 diagnosis, interventions, and outcomes in psychiatric and mental health nursing
12 psychopharmacology and other biologic treatments
13 cognitive–behavioural interventions
14 interventions with groups
15 family assessment and interventions
16 psychological health and safety in the workplace
Unit 4: challenges to mental health
17 trauma- and stressor-related disorders, crisis, and response to disaster
18 anger, aggression, and violence
19 self-harm behaviour and suicide
Unit 5: care and recovery for persons with a psychiatric disorder
20 schizophrenia
21 schizoaffective, delusional, and other psychotic disorders
22 depressive, bipolar, and related disorders
23 anxiety, obsessive–compulsive, and related disorders
24 somatic symptom and related disorders
25 eating disorders
26 substance-related and addictive disorders
27 personality disorders and disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders
28 sleep–wake disorders
Unit 6: mental health across the lifespan
29 mental health promotion and assessment: children and adolescents
30 psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents
31 mental health of older adults: promotion and assessment
32 neurocognitive disorders: delirium and dementia
Unit 7: care of persons with additional vulnerabilities
33 care of persons with concurrent substance-related, addictive, and other mental
disorders
34 care of persons with a history of abuse
35 care of persons under forensic purview
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, [Type the document title]
Psychiatric and mental health nursing for canadian practice 5th edition wendy
austin test bank
1. During the 1800s, what did pinel believe that the cure for mental illness was?
A) Arrest and confinement
B) Early psychotherapy
C) Humane treatment
D) The use of chains
2. Who was the psychiatrist who suggested the term ―mental hygiene‖?
A) Clarence hincks
B) Sigmund freud
C) Philippe pinel
D) Adolf meyer
3. Before the 19th century, seriously mentally ill clients with severely disturbing
behaviour were usually cared for by:
A) Family members at home.
B) Spiritual healers in asylums.
C) Laypersons in hospitals.
D) Staff in prisons and poorhouses.
4. Which variable of communities had the most influence on the early forms of
institutional ways of caring for the mentally ill people?
A) Quality of housing and number of professionals
B) Social stability and availability of resources
C) Political climate and public policy
D) Legal structure and role of nurses
5. Which factor has been historically related to increased intolerance and ill
treatment of people with mental disorders?
A) Social change and instability
B) Increased family size and mobility
C) Emphasis on religious beliefs
D) Increased number of asylums treating mentally ill
6. Which effects of industrialization and urbanization contributed positively to the
humane treatment of mentally afflicted treatment? Select all that apply.
A) The growing number of poor and deviant people who were not able to
sustain themselves
B) More general anxieties during a period of rapid social change and instability
C) Moral, pedagogical treatment that would help restore innate capacity for self-
control
D) The enlightenment, which changed medical and social ideas about mental illness
Page 1
3
, [Type the document title]
E) Recognition of mental illness by the medical community
7. Which was a primary reform accomplished by dorothea lynde dix?
A) Establishment of ―commitment‖ laws in state legislatures
B) Introducing compassion to the care of mentally ill clients
C) Use of music to treat mentally ill clients
D) Use of exercise therapy to treat mentally ill clients
8. Which province in canada was first to open a mental institution in 1835?
A) Ontario
B) Nova scotia
C) Quebec
D) New brunswick
9. When did involuntary confinement and institutional care of mentally ill people
begin to be the foremost treatment modality?
A) The 17th and 18th centuries
B) End of the 20th century
C) Beginning of the 19th century
D) Last half of the 19th century
10. Which was developed in 1909 by the national mental health committee for
mental hygiene?
A) Mental health nurse training
B) Stress management clinics
C) Prison clinics
D) Hydrotherapy centres
11. What superintendent of various ontario psychiatric hospitals was one of the first
health care providers who reformed models of care to improve treatment
approaches in ontario?
A) Adolf meyer
B) Clifford beers
C) Charles k. Clarke
D) Charles a. Barager
12. When did psychiatric nursing education in the general hospital training
commence in eastern canada?
A) 1860s
B) 1900s
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