MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 1 EXAM PREP
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 2026 TESTED
AND VERIFIED
◉ Apply Jahoda's six characteristics to develop in childhood to have
positive mental health. Answer: 1-a positive attitude toward self
(accepts strengths and weaknesses, strong sense of personal
identity and security within the environment)
2-growth, development and the ability to achieve self-actualization
(successfully achieves tasks of each level of development, with
achievement the person gains motivation for advancement to
highest potential)
3-integration (ability to adapt and respond appropriately. maintain
anxiety at a manageable level in response to stressful situations.)
4-autonomy (ability to perform independently, makes choices and
accepts responsibility for the outcomes)
5-perception of reality (perception of the environment without
distortion, capacity for empathy and social sensitivity, respect and
concern for wants and needs of others)
6-environmental mastery (achieved a satisfactory role in society or
environment, able to love and accept the love of others, able to
strategize, make decisions, adjust and adapt when faced with life
situations)
,◉ Describe the APA definition of mental illness. Answer: "a
syndrome characterized by clinically signifiant disturbance in an
individual's cognitions, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects
a dysfunction in the psychological, biological or developmental
processes underlying mental functioning. mental disorders are
usually associated with significant distress or disability in social,
occupational, or other important activities. an expected or culturally
approved response to a common stressor or loss such as the death of
a loved one is not a mental disorder"
◉ Differentiate other factors that support diagnosis on DSM 5.
Answer: •Provides the standard language by which clinicians,
researchers, and public health officials in the United States
communicate about mental disorders.
•Current DSM-5 was published in May 2013, marking the first major
overhaul of diagnostic criteria and classification since the DSM-IV in
1994.
•The previous version of DSM was completed nearly two decades
ago; since that time, there has been a wealth of new research and
knowledge about mental disorders.
•What is DSM and why is it important?
•Contains descriptions, symptoms, and other criteria for diagnosing
mental disorders.
•Provides a common language for clinicians to communicate about
their patients and establishes consistent and reliable diagnoses that
can be used in the research of mental disorders.
,•Provides a common language for researchers to study the criteria
for potential future revisions and to aid in the development of
medications and other interventions
◉ Describe the views of mental health in the following periods:
prehistoric, 17th - 20th centuries. Answer: Prehistoric:
•Dispossessed of soul
-Treatment: Soul to be returned
•Evil spirits or supernatural/magical powers had entered body
-Treatment: Exorcism to purge body (beatings, starvation, torture)
•Broken taboo or sinned
-Treatment: Ritualistic purification or retribution.
•Demons or witchcraft
-Treatment: Burned at the stake
•Hippocrates 400 BC
-Believed body fluids; blood, black and yellow bile and phlegm
(humors) were not aligned causing mental illness.
-Treatment: induce vomiting and diarrhea with potent cathartics.
Middle Ages (500-1500 AD)
•Europe
, •Witchcraft and supernatural in Severe mental illness were sent out
to sea on sailing boats to search for their lost rationality. (Expression
"ship of fools" derived from this)
•Middle Eastern Islamic countries
•Actually ill
•Special units within general hospitals for mental illness and
residential institutions (first asylums)
•Colonial Americans
•Punished for behaviors associated with witchcraft
U.S. 16th and 17th Century
•Care of mentally ill was the family's responsibility
•If no family, incarcerated to avoid harm to others
U.S. 18th century
•First hospital in America to admit clients with mental illness in
Philadelphia.
•Benjamin Rush, often called "father of American psychiatry", was a
physician at the hospital. (Rush University Medical College was
named the in honor of Benjamin Rush, MD, the only physician with
medical school training to sign the Declaration of Independence.)
•Initiated humanistic treatment and care with kindness, exercise
and socialization.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 2026 TESTED
AND VERIFIED
◉ Apply Jahoda's six characteristics to develop in childhood to have
positive mental health. Answer: 1-a positive attitude toward self
(accepts strengths and weaknesses, strong sense of personal
identity and security within the environment)
2-growth, development and the ability to achieve self-actualization
(successfully achieves tasks of each level of development, with
achievement the person gains motivation for advancement to
highest potential)
3-integration (ability to adapt and respond appropriately. maintain
anxiety at a manageable level in response to stressful situations.)
4-autonomy (ability to perform independently, makes choices and
accepts responsibility for the outcomes)
5-perception of reality (perception of the environment without
distortion, capacity for empathy and social sensitivity, respect and
concern for wants and needs of others)
6-environmental mastery (achieved a satisfactory role in society or
environment, able to love and accept the love of others, able to
strategize, make decisions, adjust and adapt when faced with life
situations)
,◉ Describe the APA definition of mental illness. Answer: "a
syndrome characterized by clinically signifiant disturbance in an
individual's cognitions, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects
a dysfunction in the psychological, biological or developmental
processes underlying mental functioning. mental disorders are
usually associated with significant distress or disability in social,
occupational, or other important activities. an expected or culturally
approved response to a common stressor or loss such as the death of
a loved one is not a mental disorder"
◉ Differentiate other factors that support diagnosis on DSM 5.
Answer: •Provides the standard language by which clinicians,
researchers, and public health officials in the United States
communicate about mental disorders.
•Current DSM-5 was published in May 2013, marking the first major
overhaul of diagnostic criteria and classification since the DSM-IV in
1994.
•The previous version of DSM was completed nearly two decades
ago; since that time, there has been a wealth of new research and
knowledge about mental disorders.
•What is DSM and why is it important?
•Contains descriptions, symptoms, and other criteria for diagnosing
mental disorders.
•Provides a common language for clinicians to communicate about
their patients and establishes consistent and reliable diagnoses that
can be used in the research of mental disorders.
,•Provides a common language for researchers to study the criteria
for potential future revisions and to aid in the development of
medications and other interventions
◉ Describe the views of mental health in the following periods:
prehistoric, 17th - 20th centuries. Answer: Prehistoric:
•Dispossessed of soul
-Treatment: Soul to be returned
•Evil spirits or supernatural/magical powers had entered body
-Treatment: Exorcism to purge body (beatings, starvation, torture)
•Broken taboo or sinned
-Treatment: Ritualistic purification or retribution.
•Demons or witchcraft
-Treatment: Burned at the stake
•Hippocrates 400 BC
-Believed body fluids; blood, black and yellow bile and phlegm
(humors) were not aligned causing mental illness.
-Treatment: induce vomiting and diarrhea with potent cathartics.
Middle Ages (500-1500 AD)
•Europe
, •Witchcraft and supernatural in Severe mental illness were sent out
to sea on sailing boats to search for their lost rationality. (Expression
"ship of fools" derived from this)
•Middle Eastern Islamic countries
•Actually ill
•Special units within general hospitals for mental illness and
residential institutions (first asylums)
•Colonial Americans
•Punished for behaviors associated with witchcraft
U.S. 16th and 17th Century
•Care of mentally ill was the family's responsibility
•If no family, incarcerated to avoid harm to others
U.S. 18th century
•First hospital in America to admit clients with mental illness in
Philadelphia.
•Benjamin Rush, often called "father of American psychiatry", was a
physician at the hospital. (Rush University Medical College was
named the in honor of Benjamin Rush, MD, the only physician with
medical school training to sign the Declaration of Independence.)
•Initiated humanistic treatment and care with kindness, exercise
and socialization.
