Mental Health Unit 1

Modeling best describes

client has sleeping disorder, which CAM therapy could be used safely w/o interference with any allopathi method of tx.

What is a frontal lobotomy?

Fidelity refers to the obligation to keep one's word.

You have a 9 year old with dx. depression. She doesn't join group and has low self estem. Which team member could help?

Which model views clients holistically and creates a support system to encourage independence of a M.H. disorder

Recidivism is a repeating of symptoms and has requent re-hospitalizations

How does Medicare pay for a client admitted inpatient for severe manic episode?

What did Clifford Beers' work and book A Mind That Found Itself focus on?

Psychiatrist ask you to perform a procedure. Where do you see if in your scope of practice?

Psychiatry became a separate branch , diminished inhumane treatment by the French hospital director Philippe Pinel.

The United States is estimated that approximately _____ adults experience some form of mental or emotional disorders.

What did The National Mental Health Act of 1946 do for mental health?

In 1949, Australian physician discovered which therapy bo be an effective treatment for bipolar illness?

In 1500's behaviors associated with M.I. were recorded by professionals. This led to diagnosing for abnormal behaviors.

What is value clarification?

What interrupted the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980?

You are the nurse in M.H. clinic and you have 2 patients that are related. You need to give advice. What is that?

Client is being disruptive and told he would have to go to room and be restrained if does not change his behavior.

When in ER the nurse uses Maslow's theory to triage client's complaints, knowing which complaint must be addressed 1st!

When the mental health nuse evaluates client after discharging to home , what component of the case management is this?

President John F. Kennedy had a part in developing a new approach for M.H. care by deinstitutionalization of patients

Who evaluates the family of the client, the environment and social surroundings of the client?

The Omnibus Budget Reform Act of 1987 prevented the hoursing of people with chronic mental illness in :

What mental health disorder was ECT most often used to treat?