Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders: Fighting Stigma and Promoting Recovery Format: Multiple Choice Client Needs: Safe, Effective Care Environment: Management of Care Cognit ...

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Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders: Fighting
Stigma and Promoting Recovery

Format: Multiple Choice
Client Needs: Safe, Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Cognitive Level: Understand
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 4
Page and Header: 18, Summary of Key points

1. As part of a class activity, nursing students are engaged in a small -group
discussion about the epidemiology of mental illness. Which statement best explains
the importance of epidemiology in understanding the impact of mental disorders?
A) Epidemiology helps promote understanding of the patterns of occurrence
associated with mental disorders.
B) Epidemiology helps explain research findings about the neurophysio logy that
causes mental disorders.
C) Epidemiology provides a thorough theoretical explanation of why specific mental
disorders occur.
D) Epidemiology predicts when a specific psychiatric client will recover from a
specific mental disorder.

Ans : A

Feedba ck:
Epidemiology is the study of patterns of disease distribution and determinants of
health within populations. It contributes to the overall understanding of the mental
health status of population groups, or aggregates, and it examines the associations
among possible factors. Epidemiology does not explain research findings about
neurophysiology, provide theoretical explanations for why specific disorders occur,
or predict recovery.

Format: Multiple Choice
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
Cognitive Level: Understand
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 5
Page and Header: 16, Label Avoidance

2. A nurse is working in a community mental health center that provides care to a
large population of people of Asian descent. When developing programs for this
community, which would be most important topic for the nurse to address?
A) public stigma
B) self -stigma
C) label avoidance
D) negative life events

Ans : C

Feedback:
Although public stigma and self -stigma may be areas needing to be addressed, in
this cultural group, label avoidance would be most important. Label avoidance or
avoiding treatment/care so as not to be labeled mentally ill is a type of stigma that
influences why so few people with mental health problems actually re ceive
assistance. Asian cultures commonly have negative views of mental illness that
influence the willingness of members to seek treatment; they possibly ignore the
symptoms or refuse to seek treatment because of this stigma. Negative life events
affect a nyone, not just those of the Asian culture.


Format: Multiple Choice
Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity

Cognitive Level: Apply
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 5
Page and Header: 15, Stigma

3. A nursing student is assigned to care for a client diagnosed with schizophrenia.
When talking about this client in a c