PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING 9TH EDITION
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1. Factors contributing to mental health: Biologic makeup, autonomy, indepen-
dence, self-esteem, growth, vitality, meaning in life, resilience, belonging, reality
orientation, coping abilities
2. Positive impact on mental health: Effective stress management
3. Negative impact on mental health: Family history of mental illness
4. Definition of mental illness: Causes significant distress and impaired function-
ing
5. Interpersonal factors related to mental illness: Excessive dependency or with-
drawal from relationships
6. Effects of mental illness: Dissatisfaction with relationships and self
7. Acceptable behavior in different cultures: Varies and may be viewed differently
8. Difficulty determining mental health: Not easy to determine, involves emotion-
al, psychological, and social wellness
9. Grief vs. mental illness: Grief is an expected reaction to loss and not considered
mental illness
10. Purpose of DSM: Guide for client assessment
11. Use of DSM by student nurse: To understand reason for admission and nature
of psychiatric illnesses
12. Impact of Community Mental Health Centers Act: Widespread use of com-
munity-based services
13. Result of federal legislation: Making it more difficult to commit people for
mental health treatment against their will
14. Goal of Community Mental Health Centers Act: Deinstitutionalize state hos-
pitals
15. Purpose of asylums: Provide food, shelter, and humane treatment for the
mentally ill
16. Problems with large state institutions: Abuse by attendants, geographic iso-
lation from family and community
17. Change in treatment of mental illness in the 1950s: Development of psy-
chotropic drugs
18. Treatment of mental illness today: Only 25% of people needing mental health
services receive them
19. Priority of Healthy People 2020 objectives: Treatment of mental illness
20. Positive aspect of community-based care: Ability to live in own home while
receiving therapy
21. Advanced-level function in psychiatric nursing: Evaluation
22. Year psychiatric nursing became a requirement in education: 1950
23. Basic-level functions of a new graduate nurse: Using effective communica-
tion skills
