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NUR2459 Mental Health Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship Ans: Summarizing
the goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new
coping strategies, reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging
memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship Ans: Maintaining the
relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self-
esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and
goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Ans: Theory behind this therapy:
Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the
world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? Ans: A health
environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient
or outpatient setting supporting and treating those with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship
Ans: Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to
find their own situations, not "being a friend" or meeting the needs of the
nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques Ans:
Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the
subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? Ans: "Tell
me more about that"
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"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? Ans:
Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication
technique? Ans: "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be
fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique
Ans: Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect? Ans: Client's emotional display of mood being
experienced
What are levels of consciousness? Ans: Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"? Ans: Rapid changes from one thought to
another related thought
What is perseveration? Ans: Repeating the same words in response to
different questions
What is judgement? Ans: Ability to evaluate choices and make
appropriate decisions
What is autonomy? Ans: Respecting the rights of others to make their
own decisions (Big choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices:
What would you like to take your medicine with?) =CHOICE/SELF
DETERMINATION
What are the reasons to use seclusion? Ans: Being a harm to self or
others, decreasing sensory overload, patient request
What is a violation of the patient's rights? Ans: Forcing client to eat,
wash, or dress self
NUR2459 Mental Health Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship Ans: Summarizing
the goals and objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new
coping strategies, reviewing situations that occurred and exchanging
memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship Ans: Maintaining the
relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self-
esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate problems and
goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Ans: Theory behind this therapy:
Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the
world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? Ans: A health
environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient
or outpatient setting supporting and treating those with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship
Ans: Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to
find their own situations, not "being a friend" or meeting the needs of the
nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques Ans:
Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the
subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? Ans: "Tell
me more about that"
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"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? Ans:
Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication
technique? Ans: "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be
fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique
Ans: Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect? Ans: Client's emotional display of mood being
experienced
What are levels of consciousness? Ans: Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"? Ans: Rapid changes from one thought to
another related thought
What is perseveration? Ans: Repeating the same words in response to
different questions
What is judgement? Ans: Ability to evaluate choices and make
appropriate decisions
What is autonomy? Ans: Respecting the rights of others to make their
own decisions (Big choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices:
What would you like to take your medicine with?) =CHOICE/SELF
DETERMINATION
What are the reasons to use seclusion? Ans: Being a harm to self or
others, decreasing sensory overload, patient request
What is a violation of the patient's rights? Ans: Forcing client to eat,
wash, or dress self
