Davenport University
NURS 325 - Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan
NURS 325 FINAL EXAM LATEST 2025 100% ACCURATE
FALL-WINTER SEMESTER DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY
Treatment of personality disorders
Interpersonal psychotherapy (individual)
Milieu or group therapy
Cognitive/behavioral therapy (thoughts and behaviors)
Dialectical behavior therapy (because of chronic self-injurious behavior)
-> BPD
Psychopharmacology
-> Antipsychotics
-> SSRIs
What is primary prevention?
Reduction of risk factors before occurrence of disease, condition, or injury
Services aimed at reducing the incidence of mental disorders within the population
Primary prevention targets both individuals and the environment and its emphasis is twofold.
Assisting individuals to increase their ability to cope effectively with stress
Targeting and diminishing harmful forces (stressors) within the environment
What is secondary prevention?
Early detection of the potential for development of a disease or condition, or the existence of a
disease while asymptomatic
Interventions aimed at minimizing early symptoms of psychiatric illness and directed toward
reducing the prevalence and duration of the illness
Accomplished through early identification of problems and prompt initiation of effective
treatment
Nursing in secondary prevention focuses on recognition of symptoms and provision of, or
referral for, treatment.
,Davenport University
NURS 325 - Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan
What is tertiary prevention?
Treatment of an existing symptomatic disease process to ameliorate its effects, or delay or
prevent its progress
Services aimed at reducing the residual defects that are associated with severe and persistent
mental illness
Done in 2 ways:
•Preventing complications of the illness
•Promoting rehabilitation directed toward achievement of each individual’s maximum level of
functioning
What are maturational and situational crises?
Maturational:
•Adolescence
•Marriage
•Parenthood
•Midlife
•Retirement
Situational:
•Poverty
•High rate of life change events
•Environmental conditions
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NURS 325 - Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan
•Trauma
What is conversion disorder?
•Neurological symptoms in the absence of a neurological diagnosis
•Presence of deficits in voluntary motor or sensory functions
•Common symptoms—paralysis, blindness, movement and gait disorders, numbness,
paresthesias, loss of vision or hearing, or episodes resembling epilepsy
**Therapeutic response: "I am pleased to hear you say that you recognize your anxiety may be
the cause of your swallowing problems."
What are dissociative disorders?
•Occur after significant adverse experiences/traumas
•Individuals respond to stress with severe interruption of consciousness
•Unconscious defense mechanism
•Protects individual against overwhelming anxiety through emotional separation
**The more severe the trauma, the more severe the dissociation
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
•Presence of two or more distinct personality states
•Each alternate personality (alter) has own pattern of
-> Perceiving
-> Relating to and
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NURS 325 - Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan
-> Thinking about the self and environment
•Person may not be aware of other personalities
-> Alters can be any race, gender, or intellect
What is Cluster A of personality disorders?
Odd or eccentric behaviors
-> Paranoid personality disorder
-> Schizoid personality disorder
-> Schizotypal personality disorder
What is Cluster B of personality disorders?
Dramatic, emotional, or erratic behaviors
-> Antisocial personality disorder
-> Borderline personality disorder
-> Histrionic personality disorder
-> Narcissistic personality disorder
What is Cluster C of personality disorders?
Anxious or fearful behaviors
-> Avoidant personality disorder
-> Dependent personality disorder
-> Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
NURS 325 - Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan
NURS 325 FINAL EXAM LATEST 2025 100% ACCURATE
FALL-WINTER SEMESTER DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY
Treatment of personality disorders
Interpersonal psychotherapy (individual)
Milieu or group therapy
Cognitive/behavioral therapy (thoughts and behaviors)
Dialectical behavior therapy (because of chronic self-injurious behavior)
-> BPD
Psychopharmacology
-> Antipsychotics
-> SSRIs
What is primary prevention?
Reduction of risk factors before occurrence of disease, condition, or injury
Services aimed at reducing the incidence of mental disorders within the population
Primary prevention targets both individuals and the environment and its emphasis is twofold.
Assisting individuals to increase their ability to cope effectively with stress
Targeting and diminishing harmful forces (stressors) within the environment
What is secondary prevention?
Early detection of the potential for development of a disease or condition, or the existence of a
disease while asymptomatic
Interventions aimed at minimizing early symptoms of psychiatric illness and directed toward
reducing the prevalence and duration of the illness
Accomplished through early identification of problems and prompt initiation of effective
treatment
Nursing in secondary prevention focuses on recognition of symptoms and provision of, or
referral for, treatment.
,Davenport University
NURS 325 - Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan
What is tertiary prevention?
Treatment of an existing symptomatic disease process to ameliorate its effects, or delay or
prevent its progress
Services aimed at reducing the residual defects that are associated with severe and persistent
mental illness
Done in 2 ways:
•Preventing complications of the illness
•Promoting rehabilitation directed toward achievement of each individual’s maximum level of
functioning
What are maturational and situational crises?
Maturational:
•Adolescence
•Marriage
•Parenthood
•Midlife
•Retirement
Situational:
•Poverty
•High rate of life change events
•Environmental conditions
,Davenport University
NURS 325 - Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan
•Trauma
What is conversion disorder?
•Neurological symptoms in the absence of a neurological diagnosis
•Presence of deficits in voluntary motor or sensory functions
•Common symptoms—paralysis, blindness, movement and gait disorders, numbness,
paresthesias, loss of vision or hearing, or episodes resembling epilepsy
**Therapeutic response: "I am pleased to hear you say that you recognize your anxiety may be
the cause of your swallowing problems."
What are dissociative disorders?
•Occur after significant adverse experiences/traumas
•Individuals respond to stress with severe interruption of consciousness
•Unconscious defense mechanism
•Protects individual against overwhelming anxiety through emotional separation
**The more severe the trauma, the more severe the dissociation
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
•Presence of two or more distinct personality states
•Each alternate personality (alter) has own pattern of
-> Perceiving
-> Relating to and
, Davenport University
NURS 325 - Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan
-> Thinking about the self and environment
•Person may not be aware of other personalities
-> Alters can be any race, gender, or intellect
What is Cluster A of personality disorders?
Odd or eccentric behaviors
-> Paranoid personality disorder
-> Schizoid personality disorder
-> Schizotypal personality disorder
What is Cluster B of personality disorders?
Dramatic, emotional, or erratic behaviors
-> Antisocial personality disorder
-> Borderline personality disorder
-> Histrionic personality disorder
-> Narcissistic personality disorder
What is Cluster C of personality disorders?
Anxious or fearful behaviors
-> Avoidant personality disorder
-> Dependent personality disorder
-> Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
