Galen Mental Health Exam 1 with verified
solutions
Challenging Leaders in Group: Democratic Leader - correct answer ✔decide how
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to do it or make decisions as a group
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What is mental health? - correct answer ✔o State of well being
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o People are able to realize their own potential, cope with normal stress of life,
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work productively, make contributions to community and able to function
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normally
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o Able to find help when stressed and deal with life's problems
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o With mental illness, there is significant dysfunction of daily living
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What is resilience? - correct answer ✔o Ability and capacity to secure resources
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needed to support well-being
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o Essential to recovery. We have to learn to be resilient and work through
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things.
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Diathesis-Stress Model - correct answer ✔o biological predisposition or genetics| | | | | | | | |
(First degree relative who suffers from illness predisposes us to suffering from
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|the same illness)
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o Stress: environmental stress or trauma
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(Ex hurricane Katrina and those survivors never being the same again)
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o Most accepted explanation for mental illness
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o Combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
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,DSM 5 Book - "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th
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edition" - correct answer ✔o Official medical guidelines of the American
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Psychiatric Association for diagnosing psychiatric disorders
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o Criteria for diagnosing someone with a psychiatric disorder
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Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1950s - correct answer
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✔Thorazine: First medication developed that would help calm down
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agitated/aggressive patients. Sedation
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Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1960s - correct answer
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✔Community Mental Health Centers Act: Deinstitutionalization
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Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1980s - correct answer ✔o Carters
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Commission on Mental Health - recommended more community based care
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Affordable Care Act - correct answer ✔2010: Insurance available to those who
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didn't have it before. People were able to be covered for mental health issues
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Primary Prevention Strategy - correct answer ✔§ Occurs before problem is
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manifested
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§ Seeks to reduce the incidence of new cases
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§ Educating them about their disease, coping strategies
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Secondary Prevention Strategy - correct answer ✔§ Aimed at reducing the
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prevalence of new and old cases
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,§ Early identification of problems, screening, prompt, and effective tx = 2nd
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prevention
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§ Doesn't prevent disorder, but may delay or avert progression to symptomatic
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stage
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Tertiary Prevention Strategy - correct answer ✔§ Seeks to prevent the progress
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to a severe course, disability or death
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§ treatment
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Types of Outpatient Psychiatric care - correct answer ✔o Primary care providers
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o Specialty psychiatric care providers
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o Patient-centered health/medical homes
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o Community clinics
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o Psychiatric home care
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Easy Access outpatient psychiatric care - correct answer ✔§ Telephone crisis
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counseling
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§ Telephone outreach
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§ Internet
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§ Tele psychiatry
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Characteristics of Outpatient Psych Nurses - correct answer ✔§ Strong problem-
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solving and clinical skills
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§ Cultural competence
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§ Flexibility
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§ Knowledge of community resources
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, § Autonomy
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Roles of Outpatient Psych Nurses - correct answer ✔§ Biopsychosocial
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assessment
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§ Case management
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§ Promoting continuation of treatment
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§ Teamwork and collaboration
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What are some reasons individuals would be admitted to Inpatient Pysch
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Facilities? - correct answer ✔§ Suicidal
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§ Homicidal
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§ Extremely disabled and in need of short-term acute care
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Do patients lose their rights while being admitted to an inpatient psych facility?
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- correct answer ✔§ Patients reserve their rights ALWAYS
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o Patients need for safety must be balanced against patients' rights as a citizen
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o Mental health facilities have written statements of patients right and
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applicable state laws
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o Refusal, medications, visitation, informed consent, confidentiality
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A 95-year-old woman is reported by neighbors for leaving her front door wide
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open all night long and noticing the smell of gas consistently because the stove
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is not being turned off. She is deemed to be a danger to herself. Would she
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need inpatient or outpatient care? - correct answer ✔Inpatient
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solutions
Challenging Leaders in Group: Democratic Leader - correct answer ✔decide how
| | | | | | | | | |
to do it or make decisions as a group
| | | | | | | | |
What is mental health? - correct answer ✔o State of well being
| | | | | | | | | | |
o People are able to realize their own potential, cope with normal stress of life,
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
work productively, make contributions to community and able to function
| | | | | | | | | |
normally
|
o Able to find help when stressed and deal with life's problems
| | | | | | | | | | |
o With mental illness, there is significant dysfunction of daily living
| | | | | | | | | |
What is resilience? - correct answer ✔o Ability and capacity to secure resources
| | | | | | | | | | | |
needed to support well-being
| | | |
o Essential to recovery. We have to learn to be resilient and work through
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
things.
|
Diathesis-Stress Model - correct answer ✔o biological predisposition or genetics| | | | | | | | |
(First degree relative who suffers from illness predisposes us to suffering from
| | | | | | | | | | |
|the same illness)
| |
o Stress: environmental stress or trauma
| | | | |
(Ex hurricane Katrina and those survivors never being the same again)
| | | | | | | | | |
o Most accepted explanation for mental illness
| | | | | |
o Combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
| | | | | | | |
,DSM 5 Book - "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th
| | | | | | | | | | | |
edition" - correct answer ✔o Official medical guidelines of the American
| | | | | | | | | | |
Psychiatric Association for diagnosing psychiatric disorders
| | | | | |
o Criteria for diagnosing someone with a psychiatric disorder
| | | | | | | |
Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1950s - correct answer
| | | | | | | | |
✔Thorazine: First medication developed that would help calm down
| | | | | | | | |
agitated/aggressive patients. Sedation
| | |
Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1960s - correct answer
| | | | | | | | |
✔Community Mental Health Centers Act: Deinstitutionalization
| | | | | |
Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1980s - correct answer ✔o Carters
| | | | | | | | | | |
Commission on Mental Health - recommended more community based care
| | | | | | | | | |
Affordable Care Act - correct answer ✔2010: Insurance available to those who
| | | | | | | | | | |
didn't have it before. People were able to be covered for mental health issues
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Primary Prevention Strategy - correct answer ✔§ Occurs before problem is
| | | | | | | | | |
manifested
|
§ Seeks to reduce the incidence of new cases
| | | | | | | |
§ Educating them about their disease, coping strategies
| | | | | | |
Secondary Prevention Strategy - correct answer ✔§ Aimed at reducing the
| | | | | | | | | |
prevalence of new and old cases
| | | | | |
,§ Early identification of problems, screening, prompt, and effective tx = 2nd
| | | | | | | | | | |
prevention
|
§ Doesn't prevent disorder, but may delay or avert progression to symptomatic
| | | | | | | | | | |
stage
|
Tertiary Prevention Strategy - correct answer ✔§ Seeks to prevent the progress
| | | | | | | | | | |
to a severe course, disability or death
| | | | | | |
§ treatment
|
Types of Outpatient Psychiatric care - correct answer ✔o Primary care providers
| | | | | | | | | | |
o Specialty psychiatric care providers
| | | |
o Patient-centered health/medical homes
| | |
o Community clinics
| |
o Psychiatric home care
| | |
Easy Access outpatient psychiatric care - correct answer ✔§ Telephone crisis
| | | | | | | | | |
counseling
|
§ Telephone outreach
| |
§ Internet
|
§ Tele psychiatry
| |
Characteristics of Outpatient Psych Nurses - correct answer ✔§ Strong problem-
| | | | | | | | | |
solving and clinical skills
| | |
§ Cultural competence
| |
§ Flexibility
|
§ Knowledge of community resources
| | | |
, § Autonomy
|
Roles of Outpatient Psych Nurses - correct answer ✔§ Biopsychosocial
| | | | | | | | |
assessment
|
§ Case management
| |
§ Promoting continuation of treatment
| | | |
§ Teamwork and collaboration
| | |
What are some reasons individuals would be admitted to Inpatient Pysch
| | | | | | | | | |
Facilities? - correct answer ✔§ Suicidal
| | | | | |
§ Homicidal
|
§ Extremely disabled and in need of short-term acute care
| | | | | | | | |
Do patients lose their rights while being admitted to an inpatient psych facility?
| | | | | | | | | | | |
- correct answer ✔§ Patients reserve their rights ALWAYS
| | | | | | | | |
o Patients need for safety must be balanced against patients' rights as a citizen
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
o Mental health facilities have written statements of patients right and
| | | | | | | | | |
applicable state laws
| | |
o Refusal, medications, visitation, informed consent, confidentiality
| | | | | |
A 95-year-old woman is reported by neighbors for leaving her front door wide
| | | | | | | | | | | |
open all night long and noticing the smell of gas consistently because the stove
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
is not being turned off. She is deemed to be a danger to herself. Would she
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
need inpatient or outpatient care? - correct answer ✔Inpatient
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