NUR 384 Behavioral Health Exam 1 Review Latest Update 2025-2026 Exam 100 Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
Accepting (therapeutic) - CORRECT ANSWER: Conveys an attitude of reception and
regard
Ex: "Yes, I understand what you said".
Eye contact; nodding.
An excitatory neurotransmitter that triggers muscle contraction. In the CNS, it is involved in wakefulness, attentiveness, anger, aggression, sexuality, and thirst. - CORRECT
ANSWER: Acetylcholine
An inhibitory neurotransmitter that is very widely distributed in the neurons of the cortex.
It regulates anxiety and promotes sleep. - CORRECT ANSWER: GABA
Assault - CORRECT ANSWER: An act resulting in a person's genuine fear and
apprehension that he or she will be touched without consent
Attempting to translate words into feelings - CORRECT ANSWER: Putting into words what the client has said indirectly. Desymbolizing the words.
Client: "I'm way out in the ocean"
Nurse: "You must be feeling very lonely right now"
Autonomy - CORRECT ANSWER: Ethical principle that arises from the Kantian view of persons as autonomous moral agents whose right to determine their destinies should always be respected. Individuals are ALWAYS capable of making independent choices. 1 / 3
Exceptions: comatose patients, children, and those with serious/mental illnesses that are a threat to themselves or others.
Battery - CORRECT ANSWER: The touching of another person without consent
Beneficence - CORRECT ANSWER: An ethical principle that refers to one's duty to
benefit or promote the good of others.
Nurses who act in their clients' best interests are beneficent.
Bereavement overload - CORRECT ANSWER: An accumulation of grief that occurs
when an individual experiences many losses over a short period of time and is unable to resolve one before another is experienced. This phenomenon is common among the
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Christian ethics - CORRECT ANSWER: The ethical theory that espouses "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". Advances the virtues of love, forgiveness, and honesty.
Civil law - CORRECT ANSWER: Law that protects the private and property rights of individuals and businesses
Cognitive appraisal - CORRECT ANSWER: The interpretation of an event that helps
determine its stress impact
Common law - CORRECT ANSWER: Law that is derived from decisions made in
previous cases. developed by individual states.
Compensation (ego defense mechanism) - CORRECT ANSWER: Covering up a real or
perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers more desirable
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Ex: a boy who is disabled and can't play football instead becomes a great scholar to compensate.
Countertransference - CORRECT ANSWER: Refers to the nurse's behavioral and
emotional response to the client; may be generated from people from the past or generated in response to transference by the patient.
Ex: nurse defends the client or forms too social of a relationship/feels they must "save" client, etc. Nurse may be completely unaware it is happening.
Criminal law - CORRECT ANSWER: Provides protection from conduct deemed injurious to the public welfare
Denial (defense mechanism) - CORRECT ANSWER: - Refusing to acknowledge the
existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it.
EX: A women drinks alcohol every day and cannot stop, failing to acknowledge that she has a problem.
Displacement (defense mechanism) - CORRECT ANSWER: - The transfer of feelings
from one target to another (object, person, or situation) that is considered less threatening or that is neutral.
EX: A client is angry at his doctor, does not express it, but becomes verbally abusive with the nurse.
Dopamine function - CORRECT ANSWER: influences movement, learning, attention,
and emotion
Ego defense mechanisms - CORRECT ANSWER: Largely unconscious mental
strategies employed to reduce the experience of conflict or anxiety. Anna Freud identified a number of defense mechanisms employed by the ego in face of threat to biological or psychological integrity.
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