NRNP 6610 psychiatric mental health NP EXAM A+ GRADE ASSURED COMPLETE SOLUTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

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MENTAL HEALTH NURSING EXAM 1: Unit 1 & 2 (COMPLE vc vc vc vc vc vc vc vc vc




TE + INCLUDES AND RATIONALES) 2026 A+ GRADE ASS
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URED COMPLETE SOLUTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
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(6E84B)




QUESTION 1 vc




The health and illness continuum
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ANSWER

- measures a persons health on a graduated scale
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QUESTION 2 vc




What factors influence mental health?
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ANSWER

- inherited characteristics - childhood nurturing - life circumstances
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QUESTION 3 vc




Mental illness (disorder)vc vc




ANSWER

disturbance in one's ability to cope effectively
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QUESTION 4 vc




How was mental health viewed in primitive societies?
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ANSWER

- mental illness was believed to be caused by wrath of evil spirits and demonic possession -
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treatments were geared towards removal of evil spirits -
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, mentally ill people were allowed to remain in society as long as their behaviors were not violent; violen
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t members were banished
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QUESTION 5 vc




The first English institution for the mentally ill founded by the Sheriff of London.
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ANSWER

1247



QUESTION 6 vc




Bethlehem Royal Hospital (or Bedlam) was a lunatic asylum.
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ANSWER

1330



QUESTION 7 vc




Violently ill patients were chained to walls in small cells and often provided "entertainm
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ent" for the public before the renaissance began in Italy when?
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ANSWER

1400



QUESTION 8 vc




Protestant Reformation vc




ANSWER

1517



QUESTION 9 vc




Behaviors were accurately recorded for personalities associated with melancholia, mani
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a, and psychopathology
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ANSWER

Mid 1500s vc




QUESTION 10 vc

,Eighteenth Century (1700s) vc vc




ANSWER

- Psychiatry developed as a separate branch of medicine. -
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Inhumane treatment and vicious practices were openly questioned. -
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In 1792, Philippe Pinel liberated patients from their chains and advocated acceptance of the mentally ill
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as human beings. - In America, the Philadelphia Almshouse was erected in 1731. -
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The care and treatment of people with mental illness remained harsh in the United States as it was in E
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Care for the mentally ill did not begin to improve until the arrival in 1884 of Alice Fisher, a Florence Ni
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ghtingale-trained nurse. vc




QUESTION 11 vc




Nineteenth Century (1800s) vc vc




ANSWER

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Dr. Benjamin Rush became a crusader for the insane. His book titled Diseases of the Mind was the first
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psychiatric text written in the United States. - vc vc vc vc vc vc vc



"Once insane, always insane" was no longer the rule as people were being helped. -
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Dorothea Dix surveyed asylums, jails, and almshouses. Because of her voice, care of the mentally ill gre
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atly improved. - By the late 1800s, a two-
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class system of psychiatric care had emerged: "private care" for the wealthy and "publicly provided care
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" for the remainder of society.
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QUESTION 12 vc




Twentieth Century (1900s) vc vc




ANSWER

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Clifford Beers wrote A Mind That Found Itself. The social consciousness of a nation had finally been aw
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The Committee for Mental Hygiene was formed in 1909; focused on removing the stigma of mental illn
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QUESTION 13 vc




psychoanalysis
ANSWER

- the first comprehensive theory of mental illness based on observation -
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based on the theme of repressed sexual energy -
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developed in the 1900s by neurophysicist Sigmund Freud
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, QUESTION 14 vc




recidivism
ANSWER

repeated hospitalization, the patients keep coming back and going home.
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QUESTION 15 vc




Sigmund Freud vc




ANSWER

- neurophysiologist who developed psychoanalysis in the early 1900s -
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Freud believed that forces within and outside the personality caused mental illness.
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QUESTION 16 vc




lithium carbonate vc




ANSWER

- discovered by John Cade - used to control mood swings in bipolar manic depressive illness
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QUESTION 17 vc




Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) vc




ANSWER

- introduced in 1956 -
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useful for controlling many behaviors observed in schizophrenia and other psychoses
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QUESTION 18 vc




deinstitutionalization
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the practice, begun in the 1960s, of releasing hundreds of thousands of patients from public mental hos
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pitals by the federal government -
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It was believed that people with mental disorders could live within their communities and work with t
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heir therapists on an outpatient basis.
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QUESTION 19 vc