Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing Questions and Answers

Answer: A

A person with insight is aware and understands own illness.

In psychiatry, insight is the patient's awareness that he or she is ill and understanding of the nature of the illness and the need for treatment. Insight is often lost in psychoses such as schizophrenia and mania.

Awareness of the drugs given or of results is narrower than insight, and 'not aware of self' describes a lack of insight, the opposite of the term.

Answer: D

Bereavement overload is most common among the elderly.

Bereavement overload is the term, from the psychologist Robert Kastenbaum, for the strain of losing many loved ones within a short time, so that one grief has not been worked through before the next arrives. Old people face it most often, as spouses, siblings and friends of their own generation die one after another.

Infants, adolescents and younger adults do suffer bereavement, but repeated losses close together are much less common at those stages of life.