NUR 162 Exam 4
- what are the three influential factors of mental health?
Answer individual, interper- sonal, social/cultural
- ability to see oneself as others do and fit into culture and
society where one lives
Answer mental health
- indicators of mental are a positive attitude toward self, growth,
development, and reality perception, fulfilling relationships, self esteem, re- silience
Answer health
- wrote that successful adaptation to stressors evidenced by thoughts, feelings,
behaviors, that are age-appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms
Answer Townsend
- mental illnesses include disorders that affect what three things?
Answer mood, behavior, thinking
- clinically significant behavior or psychological syn- drome with
alterations in thinking, mood, and behavior that causes distress or inability to function above and beyond the everyday reaction to life events; cuts across personal, physical, interpersonal and societal levels
Answer mental illness 1 / 2
- the general critera for diagnosis of a mental is dissatisfaction with
characteristics, abilities, and accomplishments. Ineffective or unsatisfying relationships, dissatisfaction with one's place in the world, ineffective coping with life events, lack of personal growth
Answer illness
- Manual used by practitioners to assess clients and diagnose mental disor- ders.The purpose is
to standardize nomenclature, language and identify defin- ing characteristics or symptoms as well as assist in identifying underlying causes
Answer DSM 5
- The DSM - V classifications is used by the practitioner to include what three things about
the patient
Answer psychiatric disorders, medical conditions, and psychosocial and environmental problems
- the economic burden of mental illness that of all types of cancer
Answer ex- ceeds
- people with severe and persistent mental illness have shorter hospital stays, they are
admitted to hospitals more frequently (readmission), decom- pensation and dual diagnoses
due to the lack of community resources
Answer revolving door effect
- therapeutic nurse-client relationship; interpersonal dimension (foundation for current
practice)
Answer
- Peplau
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