MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 1 ivy tech
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1. T/F
The definition of mental health is standardized and universally accepted: FALSE
there is no single universal definition of mental health, it has many components and is influence by myraid of factors
2. Which statement best reflects the current state of mental health and mental
illness?
A. Mental health-care costs exceed the costs for cancer care.
B. Most adults and children receive adequate mental health care.
C. Community resources for the homeless with mental illness are adequate.
D. Deinstitutionalization has reduced the revolving-door effect.: A
The economic burden of mental illness exceeds that for all types of cancer care
3. T/F
Community-based programs are preferable for treating many people with
mental illness: TRUE
Although there are flaws in the system, community-based programs have positive aspects that make them preferable
for treating many people with mental illness
4. Who was the first American psychiatric nurse?: Linda Richards
5. Where was the site of the first training for nurses to work with persons with
mental illness?: McLean hospital, Belmont, MA
6. Who was famous for the therapeutic nurse-client relationship...interpersonal
dimension (foundation for current practice): H. Peplau
7. Who was important in advocating to focus on client's psychosocial needs and
strenths?: J. Mellow
8. T/F
The NLN required schools to include psychiatric nursing experience before the
first nursing school included a psychiatric nursing course in its curiculum.: FALSE
Johns Hopkins was the first school of nursing to include a course in psychiatric nursing in its curriculum, in 1913
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It was not until 1950 that the NLN required schools to include an experience in psychiatric nursing
9. T/F
Cultural factors include hardiness and resilience: FALSE
Cultural factors include the patients beliefs about health and illness
Hardiness and resilience are individual factors
10. What race?
-family support/maintenance of Pt independence
-comfortable with PDA
-animated conversations
-handshake greeting
-direct eye contact
-church/prayer important for healing
-View mental illness as spiritual imbalance or punishment for sin
-use folk remedies with Western: African Americans
11. What race?
-communication slow with many pauses
-flexible orientation to time
-reluctance of family to provide Pt info
-Light-touch handshake minimal direct eye contact
-mental illness d/t ghosts, breaking taboos, loss of harmony with environment
-medicine bag or healing objects: American Indian (native American)
12. What race?
-greet with smile, direct eye contact, social comment about family/Pt
-family as collective decision maker
-human concerns valued more than adhering to schedule
-mental illness d/t fear, manipulation, God's will, or loss of country/fami-
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1. T/F
The definition of mental health is standardized and universally accepted: FALSE
there is no single universal definition of mental health, it has many components and is influence by myraid of factors
2. Which statement best reflects the current state of mental health and mental
illness?
A. Mental health-care costs exceed the costs for cancer care.
B. Most adults and children receive adequate mental health care.
C. Community resources for the homeless with mental illness are adequate.
D. Deinstitutionalization has reduced the revolving-door effect.: A
The economic burden of mental illness exceeds that for all types of cancer care
3. T/F
Community-based programs are preferable for treating many people with
mental illness: TRUE
Although there are flaws in the system, community-based programs have positive aspects that make them preferable
for treating many people with mental illness
4. Who was the first American psychiatric nurse?: Linda Richards
5. Where was the site of the first training for nurses to work with persons with
mental illness?: McLean hospital, Belmont, MA
6. Who was famous for the therapeutic nurse-client relationship...interpersonal
dimension (foundation for current practice): H. Peplau
7. Who was important in advocating to focus on client's psychosocial needs and
strenths?: J. Mellow
8. T/F
The NLN required schools to include psychiatric nursing experience before the
first nursing school included a psychiatric nursing course in its curiculum.: FALSE
Johns Hopkins was the first school of nursing to include a course in psychiatric nursing in its curriculum, in 1913
, MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 1 ivy tech
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It was not until 1950 that the NLN required schools to include an experience in psychiatric nursing
9. T/F
Cultural factors include hardiness and resilience: FALSE
Cultural factors include the patients beliefs about health and illness
Hardiness and resilience are individual factors
10. What race?
-family support/maintenance of Pt independence
-comfortable with PDA
-animated conversations
-handshake greeting
-direct eye contact
-church/prayer important for healing
-View mental illness as spiritual imbalance or punishment for sin
-use folk remedies with Western: African Americans
11. What race?
-communication slow with many pauses
-flexible orientation to time
-reluctance of family to provide Pt info
-Light-touch handshake minimal direct eye contact
-mental illness d/t ghosts, breaking taboos, loss of harmony with environment
-medicine bag or healing objects: American Indian (native American)
12. What race?
-greet with smile, direct eye contact, social comment about family/Pt
-family as collective decision maker
-human concerns valued more than adhering to schedule
-mental illness d/t fear, manipulation, God's will, or loss of country/fami-
