Exam 3: The Stuart Stress Adaptation Model of Psychiatric Nursing Care

The spouse of a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia asks a nurse,"How will I know if my spouse becomes psychotic?" The nurse replies:

A patient in the emergency room of a local community hospital is crying uncontrollably and repeating over and over,"He will hurt me if I don't get away from him.You have to help me,please." Which of the following interventions reflects attention to care in the manner advocated by the assumptions stated in the Stuart Stress Adaptation Model?

A nurse caring for a patient would look at DSM-IV-TR Axis III to obtain information about the patient's:

An adolescent who belongs to a neighborhood gang has been caught both lying and stealing by a parent.After psychiatric testing determines that the adolescent is able to adequately test reality and has no symptoms of a major psychiatric disorder,the most likely finding will be that the child's behavior demonstrates:

A nurse states,"I don't understand why the Stuart Stress Adaptation Model uses both the health/illness and adaptation/maladaptation continua." The best reply is:

A nurse taking the history of a patient diagnosed with depression discovers that the patient has a number of life strains and daily hassles.The patient and patient's spouse argue frequently,the teenage children in the family are rebellious,and there is seldom enough money to meet all the bills.In what way is this information relevant?

A patient is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and hospitalized.According to the Stuart Stress Adaptation Model,nursing interventions for this stage of treatment will focus on:

On the basis of predictions from the Global Burden of Disease Study,mental health professionals should be most concerned with increasing primary prevention efforts for:

Which predisposing factors most influence mental illness?

A patient mentions,"No one else I know is mentally ill." What reply would help the patient understand the extent of mental illness?

A patient newly diagnosed with Chron's disease shares she is spending several hours each week on the Internet seeking information about the illness.The nurse can correctly hypothesize that this patient is initially: