Exam 1 - Chapter 1

Question 1

What skills do individuals with good mental health have?

Answer 1

• Ability to recognize own potential
• Cope with normal stress
• Work productively
• Make contribution to community

Question 2

What are traits of good mental health?

Answer 2

• Think rationally
• Communicate appropriately
• Learn
• Grow emotionally
• Be resilient
• Have a healthy self-esteem
• Realistic goals and reasonable function within individual’s role

Question 3

Disorders with definable a definable diagnosis are what?

Answer 3

Mental illness

Question 4

Mental illness includes significant dysfunction in mental functioning related to what?

Answer 4

• Developmental
• Biological
• Physiological disturbances

Question 5

Is mental illness culturally defined?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

The ability and capacity to secure resources needed to support well-being is called what?

Answer 6

Resilience

Question 7

What is resilience characterized by?

Answer 7

• Optimism
• Sense of mastery
• Competence

Question 8

Is resilience essential to recovery?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

Is mental illness versus physical illness just a perception?

Answer 9

Yes (they work together)

Question 10

What model signifies nature versus nurture theory in relation to mental illness?

Answer 10

Diathesis-stress model

Question 11

What does diathesis stand for in the diathesis-stress model?

Answer 11

A biological predisposition

Question 12

What does stress stand for in the diathesis-stress model?

Answer 12

Environmental stress or trauma

Question 13

What is the most accepted explanation for mental illness?

Answer 13

Diathesis-stress model

Question 14

What model signifies the the combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors?

Answer 14

Diathesis-stress model

Question 15

The assertion of what implies that most phychiatric disorders result from a combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors?

Answer 15

Diathesis-stress model

Question 16

What does the study of distribution or mental disorders identify?

Answer 16

• High-risk groups

- High-risk factors

Question 17

The number of new cases in a given time is called what?

Answer 17

Incidence

Question 18

The number of cases regardless of when they began in called what?

Answer 18

Prevalence

Question 19

The risk that one will develop a disease in the course of a lifetime is called what?

Answer 19

Lifetime risk

Question 20

Groups treated for specific mental disorders are studied for what?

Answer 20

• Natural history of illness
• Diagnostic screening tests
• Interventions

Question 21

The results from groups treated for specific mental disorders is used to describe the frequency of what?

Answer 21

• Mental disorders

- Symptoms appearing together

Question 22

What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition?

Answer 22

DSM-V

Question 23

What is the official medical guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association for diagnosing?

Answer 23

DSM-V

Question 24

What is based on specific criteria influenced by multiprofessional clinical field traits

Answer 24

DSM-V

Question 25

What does The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International (NANDA-I) provide?

Answer 25

Standardized nursing diagnosis

Question 26

What are sources of standardized outcomes, definitions of these outcomes, and measuring scales?

Answer 26

Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)

Question 27

What identifies seven domains of nursing intervention?

Answer 27

Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)

Question 28

Explain the stigma of Mental Illness

Answer 28

The belief that the overall person is flawed