Mental Health and Mental Disorders

Chapter 2- Mental Health and Mental Disorders A nursing instructor is describing the DSM-IV-TR to a group of nursing students. Which 1. of the following would the instructor include as the primary purpose of this classification? A) Provide a commonly understood diagnostic category for clinical practice. B) Describe treatment modalities for psychiatric disorders and mental illnesses. C) Identify various etiologies for mental disorders based on family histories. D) Provide optimal outcomes for treatment for individuals with mental illnesses. A nurse is providing care to a patient with a mental disorder classified by the DSM-IV- TR. The nurse understands that although the first three axes appear to contain all the diagnostic information about a patient, a truly accurate picture of the client is incomplete 2. without considering other factors such as an estimate of current functioning and: A) Life stressors B) Cultural background C) Marital status D) Genetic history A patient’s global assessment functioning reveals that he has minimal symptoms with 3. good functioning in all areas. Which score would the nurse correlate with these findings? A) 94 B) 82 C) 75 D) 63 4. A female patient was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, and in the course of her treatment, it was determined that she was experiencing alcohol dependence because she began experiencing alcohol withdrawal while she was in the hospital. When the psychiatrist who was called in as a consultant documented the patient’s mental disorder, he identified her alcohol dependence on which axis? A) Axis I B) Axis II C) Axis III D) Axis IV A 25-year-old woman who recently had abdominal surgery was admitted to the psychiatric unit, where it was determined that she had a borderline personality disorder. During the first week on the unit, it was determined that she also has diabetes. Her 5. diabetes mellitus would be listed in which axis of her DSM-IV-TR diagnosis? A) Axis I B) Axis II C) Axis III D) Axis IV As part of a class activity, nursing students are engaged in a small group discussion about the epidemiology of mental illness. Which statement best explains the importance of 6. epidemiology in understanding the impact of mental disorders? Epidemiology helps promote understanding of the patterns of occurrence associated A) with mental disorders. Epidemiology helps explain research findings about the neurophysiology that causes B) mental disorders. Epidemiology provides a thorough theoretical explanation of why specific mental C) disorders occur. Epidemiology predicts when a specific psychiatric client will recover from a specific