Chapter 1: Mental Health and Mental Illness

Question 1

What is the belief that the overall person is flawed, is characterized by social shunning, disgrace, and shame?

Answer 1

stigma

Question 2

What is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity?

Answer 2

health

Question 3

What is a state of well-being in which individuals reach their own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively, and contribute to the community?

Answer 3

mental health

Question 4

What refers to all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses?

Answer 4

Mental illness

Question 5

How many adult Americans experienced a mental illness?

Answer 5

1 in 5

Question 6

What age range has the highest level of mental illnesses?

Answer 6

18 to 25

Question 7

Characterized by adequate to high-level functioning

Answer 7

Well-being

Question 8

What is the ability and capacity for people to secure the resources they need to support their well-being?

Answer 8

resillience

Question 9

What is the earliest social group that has tremendous effects on developing and vulnerable humans?

Answer 9

the family

Question 10

What drug challenged the psychological focus in 1952?

Answer 10

chlorpromazine (thorazine)

Question 11

What does diathesis represent in the diathesis-stress model?

Answer 11

biological predisposition

Question 12

What does stress represent in the diathesis-stress model?

Answer 12

environmental stress or trauma

Question 13

The quantitative study of the distribution of mental disorders in human populations

Answer 13

epidemiology

Question 14

What are indicators of well-being?

Answer 14

occasional stress to mild distress but no impairment

Question 15

What are indicators of emotional problems or concerns?

Answer 15

mild to moderate distress and mild or temporary impairment

Question 16

What are the indicators of mental illness?

Answer 16

marked distress with moderate to disabling of chronic impairment

Question 17

What scores would indicate low resilient coping?

Answer 17

4-13

Question 18

What scores would be indicative of medium resilient copers?

Answer 18

14-16

Question 19

What scores would be indicative of high resilient copers?

Answer 19

17-20

Question 20

Which psychological disorders have clear signs of altered brain function and/or structure?

Answer 20

schizophrenia, OCD, anxiety, and depression

Question 21

Which drug was found to have a calming effect on patients experiencing agitation and feeling out of control?

Answer 21

chlorpromazine

Question 22

What is the most accepted explanation for mental illness?

Answer 22

the diathesis-stress model

Question 23

What advances and progress were made during the Decade of the Brain?

Answer 23

Understanding the genetic basis of embryonic and fetal neural development
Mapping genes involved in neurological illnesses (i.e. Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy)
Discovering that the brain uses a small number of neurotransmitters but has a vast assortment of neurotransmitter receptors
Uncovering the role of cytokines
Refining neuroimaging techniques
Bringing together computer modeling and laboratory research, which resulted in computational neuroscience

Question 24

Two most important messages from the first Surgeon General’s report on the topic of mental health

Answer 24

mental health is fundamental to overall health and there are effective treatments

Question 25

What were the goals of the Human Genome Project? (5)

Answer 25

Identify the approximately 20,000 to 25,000 genes in human DNA.
Determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA.
Store this information in databases.
Improve tools for data analysis.
Address the ethical, legal, and social issues that may arise from the project.

Question 26

What are the 6 key areas involved in Quality and Safety Education for Nurses?

Answer 26

Patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics

Question 27

How many disorders does the DSM-5 cover?

Answer 27

157

Question 28

How do nursing diagnoses and the DSM-5 affect each other?

Answer 28

the DSM-5 is used to diagnose a psychiatric disorder and the nursing diagnosis will provide the framework for identifying important nursing interventions for dealing with the patient’s reaction to the disorder

Question 29

A nursing student new to psychiatric-mental health nursing asks a peer what resources he can use to figure out which symptoms are present in a specific psychiatric disorder. The best answer would be:

Answer 29

DSM