NUSC 3P14 - Mental Health Final Exam
well answered to pass
The addiction trajectory - correct answer ✔✔a) No use
b) Use
c) Misuse
d) Abuse
e) Dependency
No use - correct answer ✔✔the individual doesn't use alcohol or other substances and doesn't
participate in addictive behaviors. Just as someone can be predisposed to substance use due to
biological (genetic), psychological, or social factors, one's personal disposition or social
environment may dissuade the use of certain substances or behaviors.
Use - correct answer ✔✔People may begin to experiment with alcohol, other drugs, or
behaviours to see what it is like, to fit in with peers, or perhaps to escape from personal
troubles. It is using in a socially and culturally responsible way.
Misuse - correct answer ✔✔People may experience lapses in memory, get in trouble at home or
school because of impairment, spend more money than intended on gambling or shopping, or
do something regrettable while under the influence of alcohol or another drug.
Abuse - correct answer ✔✔The person uses a substance or engages in a damaging behaviour
more frequently, interfering with major areas of his or her life, such as family, parents, school,
legal issues, money, friends, and leisure. The person may become obsessive about when, how,
and where to get the substance or behaviour of abuse.
,Dependency - correct answer ✔✔The person has lost the ability to choose or not to choose.
Using substances or engaging in risky behaviour has become a way of life.
Addiction - correct answer ✔✔The persistent, compulsive, dependence on or use of a
substance or behaviour despite its negative consequences and the increasing frequency of
those consequences
Tolerance - correct answer ✔✔A physiological experience that occurs when a person's reaction
to a substance decreases with repeated administrations of the same dose. If the person
attempts to stop using the substance or engaging in the behaviour, he or she may experience
symptoms of withdrawal
Withdrawal - correct answer ✔✔Causes physiological changes as the blood and tissue
concentrations of a drug decrease after heavy and prolonged use of a substance.
Synergistic effects - correct answer ✔✔The capacity of 2 or more drugs acting together to
create a greater total effect than the sum of the effects if taken independently
Precontemplation phase: - correct answer ✔✔The individual is not currently considering change
or intending to take action in the foreseeable future (usually in the next 6 months)
Contemplation phase - correct answer ✔✔The patient is ambivalent about change and likely
not considering change within the next month.
Preparation phase - correct answer ✔✔Occurs when the patient, who may have had some
experience with change, is actively making attempts at behaviour change, even if in a trial or
testing process, or has plans to take action within then next month
Action phase - correct answer ✔✔The patient is actively working toward the desired
behavioural change, including modifying his or her environment, experiences, or behaviour. At
, this stage, the patient will have made specific, over modification in lifestyle within the past 6
months, and measures should be taken against relapse.
Maintenance phase - correct answer ✔✔Focuses on actively working to maintain changes made
and prevent relapse. At this stage, patients are less tempted to relapse and are becoming
increasingly confident that they can continue their changed behaviour.
Relapse - correct answer ✔✔Phase that cycles back to previous changes. It refers to reverting to
an earlier stage of change, toward the old behaviours, after progressing through some of the
later stages.
According to Donna Dailey, addiction is the result of 4 etiologies - correct answer ✔✔1.
Childhood development: environment, people they've grown up with
2. Personality: it's that person's brain who's wired differently which causes them to process
things differently. Their brain processes on a need-to-know-basis. Usually these people are on a
high intellectual level.
3. Pampered children: anything a child can do for themselves that you do for them is a complete
disservices. When you do everything form them and then expect them to think on their own
they have difficulty making choices.
4. Trauma: can occur at any age and developmental stage. Includes any type of abuse.
Substance use disorder - correct answer ✔✔- Classified as substance use disorder in the DSM-5
- Each substance use disorder classified specifically and independent of one another: mild,
moderate, or severe
- 4 categories in the assessment: impaired control, social impairment, risky use, and
pharmacological indicators.
Define impaired control, social impairment, risky use, and pharmacological indicators. - correct
answer ✔✔Impaired control: You want to stop but you can't, or cravings are so addicting that
you can't think about anything else.
Social impairment: causing problems at work, family, school.
well answered to pass
The addiction trajectory - correct answer ✔✔a) No use
b) Use
c) Misuse
d) Abuse
e) Dependency
No use - correct answer ✔✔the individual doesn't use alcohol or other substances and doesn't
participate in addictive behaviors. Just as someone can be predisposed to substance use due to
biological (genetic), psychological, or social factors, one's personal disposition or social
environment may dissuade the use of certain substances or behaviors.
Use - correct answer ✔✔People may begin to experiment with alcohol, other drugs, or
behaviours to see what it is like, to fit in with peers, or perhaps to escape from personal
troubles. It is using in a socially and culturally responsible way.
Misuse - correct answer ✔✔People may experience lapses in memory, get in trouble at home or
school because of impairment, spend more money than intended on gambling or shopping, or
do something regrettable while under the influence of alcohol or another drug.
Abuse - correct answer ✔✔The person uses a substance or engages in a damaging behaviour
more frequently, interfering with major areas of his or her life, such as family, parents, school,
legal issues, money, friends, and leisure. The person may become obsessive about when, how,
and where to get the substance or behaviour of abuse.
,Dependency - correct answer ✔✔The person has lost the ability to choose or not to choose.
Using substances or engaging in risky behaviour has become a way of life.
Addiction - correct answer ✔✔The persistent, compulsive, dependence on or use of a
substance or behaviour despite its negative consequences and the increasing frequency of
those consequences
Tolerance - correct answer ✔✔A physiological experience that occurs when a person's reaction
to a substance decreases with repeated administrations of the same dose. If the person
attempts to stop using the substance or engaging in the behaviour, he or she may experience
symptoms of withdrawal
Withdrawal - correct answer ✔✔Causes physiological changes as the blood and tissue
concentrations of a drug decrease after heavy and prolonged use of a substance.
Synergistic effects - correct answer ✔✔The capacity of 2 or more drugs acting together to
create a greater total effect than the sum of the effects if taken independently
Precontemplation phase: - correct answer ✔✔The individual is not currently considering change
or intending to take action in the foreseeable future (usually in the next 6 months)
Contemplation phase - correct answer ✔✔The patient is ambivalent about change and likely
not considering change within the next month.
Preparation phase - correct answer ✔✔Occurs when the patient, who may have had some
experience with change, is actively making attempts at behaviour change, even if in a trial or
testing process, or has plans to take action within then next month
Action phase - correct answer ✔✔The patient is actively working toward the desired
behavioural change, including modifying his or her environment, experiences, or behaviour. At
, this stage, the patient will have made specific, over modification in lifestyle within the past 6
months, and measures should be taken against relapse.
Maintenance phase - correct answer ✔✔Focuses on actively working to maintain changes made
and prevent relapse. At this stage, patients are less tempted to relapse and are becoming
increasingly confident that they can continue their changed behaviour.
Relapse - correct answer ✔✔Phase that cycles back to previous changes. It refers to reverting to
an earlier stage of change, toward the old behaviours, after progressing through some of the
later stages.
According to Donna Dailey, addiction is the result of 4 etiologies - correct answer ✔✔1.
Childhood development: environment, people they've grown up with
2. Personality: it's that person's brain who's wired differently which causes them to process
things differently. Their brain processes on a need-to-know-basis. Usually these people are on a
high intellectual level.
3. Pampered children: anything a child can do for themselves that you do for them is a complete
disservices. When you do everything form them and then expect them to think on their own
they have difficulty making choices.
4. Trauma: can occur at any age and developmental stage. Includes any type of abuse.
Substance use disorder - correct answer ✔✔- Classified as substance use disorder in the DSM-5
- Each substance use disorder classified specifically and independent of one another: mild,
moderate, or severe
- 4 categories in the assessment: impaired control, social impairment, risky use, and
pharmacological indicators.
Define impaired control, social impairment, risky use, and pharmacological indicators. - correct
answer ✔✔Impaired control: You want to stop but you can't, or cravings are so addicting that
you can't think about anything else.
Social impairment: causing problems at work, family, school.
