Chapter 1

Study Questions

Introduction to Mental Health Nursing:

1. What is the definition of mental health and mental illness?

2. Define emotional intelligence, resiliency, and spirituality.

3. What is the id, ego, and super ego?

4. Why is Freud's theory of personality development called Intrapersonal?

5. Define anxiety. How will the nurse intervene with a client with Stage 3 anxiety?

6. What are defense mechanisms? Why are they used? Are they maladaptive? Be

able to give examples of specific defense mechanisms.(Table 1.2)

7. Describe three points from Sullivan's Social-Interpersonal Theory of personality

development.

8. Explain Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. How would a nurse make use of this

theory?

9. What is Crisis theory? Discuss a situation in which a nurse would draw upon knowledge of crisis intervention.

10. Describe one way a nurse would use BF. Skinner's Behavioral theory.

11. Describe one way a nurse would use Aaron Beck's Cognitive theory.

12. If you were to use Beck’s theory with yourself, what is one cognitive reframe you would use.?

13. What is the neurobiological theory?

14. What is a neurotransmitter?

15. What is personality?

16. Describe the characteristics of a caring relationship.

17. What is The Nurse-Client Relationship?

18. Discuss the phases of the nurse-client relationship and the characteristics of each

phase.

19. What is transference? How will you make use of this idea?

20. What is counter -transference? How will you make use of this idea?

21. What are boundaries? How are they established?

22. List five parts of a psychiatric assessment.

23. What is the DSM-IV-TR? What are the 5 axes of the DSM-IV-TR.

24. What is a therapeutic milieu?

25. Why is self-care important for the nurse? Give an example of self-care that you do.