Exam 34: Concepts of Mental Health

What definition should the nurse use to clarify the concept of "mental health"?

The majority of people function in a relatively healthy manner.What can diminish their functional capacity?

When assisting the older adult who is despondent about the need to leave his home,what technique should the nurse use?

Which theorist believed that personality development was based on task mastery?

What does any event that requires change stimulate?

When the patient who overeats insists that weight gain is related to retained fluids,the nurse recognizes the patient is using which defense mechanism?

During the 17th and 18th centuries,care of patients with mental illness often was cruel.What type of care was used by Dr.Philippe Pinel to bring about change?

A perceived threat to self causes what emotion?

Which role is an example of an ascribed role?

Why is it important for the nurse to be observant of patient behavior?

How should the nurse document the behavior of a patient with mental illness?

Using Freud's personality theory,what action by a patient indicates a strong ego?

After finding the patient with diabetes eating candy,the nurse reminds the patient that the candy will elevate blood sugar levels.The patient's response is: "It's only a little bit,and it won't do anything." Which defense mechanism is the patient using?

What coping mechanism demonstrated by a patient should indicate to the nurse that the patient is seeking ways to deal with and resolve stress?

What is the basis for classifying a person as having a mental illness?

Using the mental health continuum as a guide,the nurse observes behavior that usually places an individual on the illness end of the continuum.What is true of this behavior?

A patient admitted to the hospital after a motorcycle crash that has left him paralyzed from the waist down tells the nurse he has feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.What other feelings may the patient have that should be recognized?

In the movie Gone With the Wind,Scarlett O'Hara says,"I'll think about that tomorrow.Tomorrow is another day." The nurse recognizes the defense mechanism of __________.

Using Freud's personality theory,what action by a patient identifies the influence of the superego?

What is the most likely result when an attempt at adaptation fails?