EXAM 1 NUR 215 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS100% CORRECT!!!
Therapeutic Relationship
Nurses use their communication skills, understanding of human behavior,
and personal strengths to foster patient growth.
The patient's needs are the priority.
Language is clear and direct.
The focus is on the patient's ideas and needs, not the nurse's.
Milieu Therapy
An inpatient treatment approach where professionals and staff encourage
individuals with severe mental disorders to engage in prosocial and
therapeutic activities.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
A psycho-social intervention designed to improve mental health by
addressing cognitive distortions and behaviors.
CBT helps with emotional regulation and developing coping strategies to
solve current problems.
The idea behind CBT is that what you think influences how you feel and act.
psychoanalytic theory -ANSWER✔✔A theory developed by Freud that attempts to
explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious
determinants of behavior
,interpersonal therapy -ANSWER✔✔The main goal of IPT is to improve the
quality of a client's interpersonal relationships and social functioning to help
reduce their distress. IPT provides strategies to resolve problems within four key
areas.
Mental status exam -ANSWER✔✔assessment of current mental capacity through
evaluation of observations (appearance, speech, eye contact, motor ability, and
affect), mood (euthymic, anxious, depressed, etc.), cognition (orientation
impairment, memory impairment, attention), perception (hallucinations,
depersonalization), thoughts (suicidality, delusions), behavior, insight, and
judgement
Psychosocial Assessment -ANSWER✔✔Provides additional information which
develops a plan of care beyond the MSE. includes obtaining the following
subjective information from the patient. The focus of the history is the patient's
perception and recollections of his or her current lifestyle and life in general.
components of psychosocial assessment -ANSWER✔✔Chief complaint ( in
patients own words)
History of violence suicidal and self mutilating behaviors
Alcohol and or substance abuse
Family psychiatric history
Personal psychiatric treatment
Personal psychiatric treatment including medication and complementary therapies
Current stressors and coping methods
Quality of activities of daily living
Personal and social background, including support system
Weakness strength and goals for treatment
Racial ethnic and cultural beliefs and practices
, Spiritual beliefs or religious practices
Low dopamine -ANSWER✔✔Parkinson's and depression
high dopamine -ANSWER✔✔mania and schizophrenia
low norepinephrine -ANSWER✔✔depression
high norepinephrine -ANSWER✔✔anxiety
low serotonin -ANSWER✔✔depression
high serotonin -ANSWER✔✔anxiety
high histamine -ANSWER✔✔anxiety and depression
decreased GABA -ANSWER✔✔Anxiety disorders, Schizophrenia, Mania, and
Huntington's disease
high GABA -ANSWER✔✔reduction of anxiety, schizophrenia and mania
low glutamate -ANSWER✔✔psychosis
high glutamate -ANSWER✔✔migraines, seizures, arousal, anxiety, memory
problems
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS100% CORRECT!!!
Therapeutic Relationship
Nurses use their communication skills, understanding of human behavior,
and personal strengths to foster patient growth.
The patient's needs are the priority.
Language is clear and direct.
The focus is on the patient's ideas and needs, not the nurse's.
Milieu Therapy
An inpatient treatment approach where professionals and staff encourage
individuals with severe mental disorders to engage in prosocial and
therapeutic activities.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
A psycho-social intervention designed to improve mental health by
addressing cognitive distortions and behaviors.
CBT helps with emotional regulation and developing coping strategies to
solve current problems.
The idea behind CBT is that what you think influences how you feel and act.
psychoanalytic theory -ANSWER✔✔A theory developed by Freud that attempts to
explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious
determinants of behavior
,interpersonal therapy -ANSWER✔✔The main goal of IPT is to improve the
quality of a client's interpersonal relationships and social functioning to help
reduce their distress. IPT provides strategies to resolve problems within four key
areas.
Mental status exam -ANSWER✔✔assessment of current mental capacity through
evaluation of observations (appearance, speech, eye contact, motor ability, and
affect), mood (euthymic, anxious, depressed, etc.), cognition (orientation
impairment, memory impairment, attention), perception (hallucinations,
depersonalization), thoughts (suicidality, delusions), behavior, insight, and
judgement
Psychosocial Assessment -ANSWER✔✔Provides additional information which
develops a plan of care beyond the MSE. includes obtaining the following
subjective information from the patient. The focus of the history is the patient's
perception and recollections of his or her current lifestyle and life in general.
components of psychosocial assessment -ANSWER✔✔Chief complaint ( in
patients own words)
History of violence suicidal and self mutilating behaviors
Alcohol and or substance abuse
Family psychiatric history
Personal psychiatric treatment
Personal psychiatric treatment including medication and complementary therapies
Current stressors and coping methods
Quality of activities of daily living
Personal and social background, including support system
Weakness strength and goals for treatment
Racial ethnic and cultural beliefs and practices
, Spiritual beliefs or religious practices
Low dopamine -ANSWER✔✔Parkinson's and depression
high dopamine -ANSWER✔✔mania and schizophrenia
low norepinephrine -ANSWER✔✔depression
high norepinephrine -ANSWER✔✔anxiety
low serotonin -ANSWER✔✔depression
high serotonin -ANSWER✔✔anxiety
high histamine -ANSWER✔✔anxiety and depression
decreased GABA -ANSWER✔✔Anxiety disorders, Schizophrenia, Mania, and
Huntington's disease
high GABA -ANSWER✔✔reduction of anxiety, schizophrenia and mania
low glutamate -ANSWER✔✔psychosis
high glutamate -ANSWER✔✔migraines, seizures, arousal, anxiety, memory
problems
