Ch: 1 - Can you define mental health? What 3 factors influence mental health? - answer✔No single
definition
Factors:
1-individual
2-interpersonal
3-social/cultural
Ch: 1 - What is psychiatric mental health nursing? - answer✔A specialized area of nursing that promotes
mental health through APPLYING the NURSING PROCESS
Nurses care for people with a wide range of emotional problems and mental disorders
Ch: 1 - What do mental disorders cause? - answer✔Significant distress and/or impaired functioning
Ch: 1 - How does the INDIVIDUAL factor affect mental illness? - answer✔Biological makeup - a genetic
factor
Unrealistic worries or fears
Ch: 1 - How does the INTERPERSONAL factor affect mental illness? - answer✔Pt does not communicate
with others
They don't have a social support system
Ch: 1 - How does the SOCIAL/CULTURAL factor affect mental illness? - answer✔The Pt has an
unwarranted negative view of the world
Hint: psychosis vs neurosis - answer✔He believed that mental illness was a PSYCHOLOGIC DISORDER,
and a result of shitty parenting/disturbed personality
Mental illness was categorized as psychosis (severe) or neurosis (less severe)
Ch: 1 - How did Freud believe mental illness should be treated? - answer✔Psychoanalysis therapy =
focuses on repairing the trauma of the original psychological injury
However it was costly and time-consuming, so everyone was generally ignored
Ch: 1 - How did psychopharmacology and DEinstitutionalization contribute to mental illness in the
1950s? - answer✔Psychotropic medications were created = key to turn around some mental disorders
Deinstitutionalization = transitioning people who were confined for years in mental institutions into the
community for rehab/treatment
Ch: 1 - Was deinstitutionalization successful?
What specific effect did it have in the 21st century? - answer✔Deinstitutionalization considered a failure
since community mental health centers focused on other issues
"Revolving door" effect = patients are better for a while and then relapse
They stop their meds as soon as they start feeling good but the meds is what makes them feel good in
the first place.
Ch: 1 - Despite the increasing numbers, how many adults and children are being treated for mental
illness in the 21st century? - answer✔1 in 4 adults
1 in 5 children/adolescents
Ch: 1 - What is Healthy People 2020? What are their 4 overarching goals? - answer✔Governmental
program that aims for society to have long and happy lives
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