Vocab Unit 1 (1)

Question 1

Mental Health

Answer 1

The successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are age-appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms.

Question 2

Mental Illness

Answer 2

Maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms, and interfere with the individual’s social, occupational, and/or physical functioning

Question 3

Delusion

Answer 3

False personal beliefs not consistent with a person’s intelligence or cultural background. The individual continues to have the belief in spite of obvious proof that it is false and/or irrational.

Question 4

Hallucination

Answer 4

False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli. Hallucinations may involve any of the five senses.

Question 5

Illusion

Answer 5

A misperception of a real external stimulus

Question 6

Psychosis

Answer 6

A mental state in which there is a severe loss of contact with reality. Symptoms may include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech patterns, and bizarre or catatonic behaviors.

Question 7

Voluntary Admission

Answer 7

Clients voluntarily seek help

Question 8

Involuntary Admission

Answer 8

• Clients held against their will due to being dangerous to self or others
• Treatment over objection

Question 9

Treatment over objection

Answer 9

• Treatment that is court ordered
• Can be court ordered when the client refuses care that the health care team determines is necessary for the client’s well-being and improvement

Question 10

Primary Prevention

Answer 10

Reducing the incidence of mental disorders by indentifying and treating risk factors in healthy people. “What are ways to maintain health”

Question 11

Secondary Prevention

Answer 11

Reducing the prevalance of a psychiatric illness through early diagnosis, screening and early treatment

Question 12

Tertiary Prevention

Answer 12

Reducing the residual defects that are associated with severe and chronic mental illness through long term aftercare, resocialization, and vocational training

Question 13

Etiology/Risk Factors for Mental Illness

Answer 13

• Heredity
• Biochemical factors
• Physical illness and problems
• Environmental factors
• Nuturing during childhood
• Life circumstances
• Body structure and physiology

Question 14

Orientation

Answer 14

• Nurse and client become aquainted
• Establish trust and rapport
• Establish a contract for intervention that details the expectations and responsibilities of both the nurse and client
• Gathering assessment information to build a strong client database
• Formulate nursing diagnoses
• Setting goals

Question 15

Working Phase

Answer 15

• Therapeutic work is accomplished during this phase
• Maintaining the trust and rapport that was established during the orientation phase
• Promoting client’s insight an perception of reality
• Problem-solving
• Overcoming resistance behaviors on the part of the client
• Evaluating progress

Question 16

Termination Phase

Question 17

Transference

Answer 17

Feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that a client has toward a mental health care provider that are related to the client’s unconscious or repressed emotions and feelings towards people in his/her past

Question 18

Countertransference

Answer 18

Feelings, thoughts, and behavaiors that a mental health care provider has toward a client that may be related to the provider’s own unscious or repressed emotions and feelings toward people in his/her past or with a situation a client is experiencing that is similar to a situaiton the nurse is experiencing

Question 19

Resistance

Answer 19

Reluctance or opposition by the individual to examine anxiety-producing aspects of self