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not just an absence of mental illness
state of successful mental functioning
leads to productive activities
leads to intrapersonal relationships
leads to ability to adapt to change
cope with diversity |
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The opposite of mental health
maladaptive resonses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms and interfere with the individuals's socia, occupational, and/or physical functioning. |
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False fixed beliefs
(nurse can't change belief)
not consistent with a peron's intelligence or cultural background
ex. someone is out to get them or hurt them |
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1. Ignore it
2. don't enourage to talk about it
3. acknowledge
4. redirect(distract) with something real |
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False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli. (may invovle 5 senses)
Auditory-most common, voices in their head
Visual
Olfactory
Tactile (withdrawal-drugs)
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| Ask what they are seeing, hearing and say, "I don't hear or see that but I get that you do." |
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A misperception of a real external stimulus.
visual or auditory |
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provide them a reality
ex. if they think chair is a bear go over to chair and say I am touching it, it't not a bear its a chair. |
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non-reality based thinking
loss of contact with reality
encompases delusion, hallucinations, or illusion |
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| Psychiatric-mental health nursing |
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Same definition as nursing: diagnosis and treatment of human reponses to actual or potential mental health problems.
In addition: specialized area of nursing practice that uses nursing, psychosocial and neuroboiological theories, as well as research evidence
REQUIRES: the purposeful use of self |
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| What do nurses focus on in psychiatric-mental health nursing? |
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| Focusing on meeting basic needs by helping those to handle their emotions and respond to stress and crisis |
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| What are the risk factors/etiology for mental illness? |
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Heredity-genetic predisposition or transmission
ex. Mood disorders, bipolar, depression
Biochemical-neurotransmitters and brain chemistry/differences (high seratonin, happy, low-depressed
physical illness and problems-long term medical condition, illness Ex. cancer
environmental factors-poverty (pay bills, food to survive, life experiences) |
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| What do hospitals test when someone checks in that looks depressed or paranoid? |
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THYROID
high hormons released-person is hyper and paranoid
low hormons released-person looks depressed, slowed in responses, overweight |
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| What are the 4 factors that affect development of MENTAL HEALTH? |
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Inheritted characteristics- genes that help you become resiliant.
body structure and physiology- brain, hormones
nurturing during childhood-how you were raised, abused
life circumstances-death divorce, loss of job, surviving war |
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| Describe how to "maintain mental health" |
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PRIMARY PREVENTION
identifying and treating risk factors in healthy people
ex. anger management, coping skills |
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| occurs when the client unconsciously attributes (or transfers)to the nurse feelings and behavioral predispositions formed toward a person from his/her past. |
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| Interventions for transference |
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-the nurse should work with the pt in sorting out the past from present
-assist pt to identify the transference
-reassign a new and more appropriate meaning to current relationship |
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-refers to the nurse's behavioral and emotional response to the client
-may be generated for unresolved feelings for those from past
-may be response to transference feelings from the client
-these feelings can interfere with therapeutic relationship |
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| reluctance or opposition by the individual to examine anxiety-producing aspects of self |
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Services aimed at reducing the incidence of amental disorders within population
TEACHING..
..parenting skills
..effects of alcohol/drugs
..stress management techniques
SUPPORT..
..for widows, new retirees, women entering workforce-midlife
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reducing the prevalence of psychiatric illness through the early diagnosis-screening and early treatment
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| reducing the residual effects that are associated with severe and chronic mental illness through longterm aftercare, resocialization, recovery, and vocational training |
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| Helping behaviors that enable clients to communicate and problem solve |
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acceptance
empathy
concreteness
genuineness
immediacy
respect
self-disclosure
self-understanding
structuring
trust |
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| accept what is real for them |
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The ability to see beyond outward behavior and sense accurately another's inner experiencing.
With empathy, one can accurately perceive and understand the meaning and relevance in the thoughts and feelings of another
EX. feel with them, "that sounds terrible, how tough was that" |
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the use of specific terms in the discussion of feelings, experiences and behaviours, avoiding use of abstraction and generalities
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giving into about self
identifying with them
use to meet client's needs |
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| eye contact, do what you say your going to do, make frequent contacts (check on the pt) |
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| the ability to recognize and acknowledge one's own feelings and to be able to recognize how one's reactions may affect a situation |
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| the ability to work with here and now problems |
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| developing the relationship with a client by establishing the amount of time spent with a client and providing direction and purpose for the therapeutic relationship |
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