NR 326 Mental Health Exam 1
Mental Health - -the successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or
external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that
are age-appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms
-Mental Illness - -Maladaptive responses 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
individual's social, occupational, or physical functioning
-Psychological theories - -help us to explain behavior (why)
-Psychological therapies - -treatments based on these theories (RN)
-Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud) - -Developed psychoanalysis
Application to Nursing:
- Cause of suffering, value of talk sessions,
- correct inappropriate learning patterns
-Psychosocial Development (Erickson) - -Application to Nursing:
- Individualize care to patient's developmental level
-Interpersonal theory (Sullivan) - --Believed that individual behavior and
personality development are the direct result of interpersonal relationships.
- Human behavior could be observed in social interaction with others.
Application to Nursing:
- Relationship based therapy
-Humanistic Theory (Maslow) - -
-Modeling - -What is it used for?
- Leading by example
How is it used?
- Staff demonstration, examples
-Operant Conditioning - -What is it used for?
- Positive behavior is reinforced
How is it used?
- Reward system
, -Systematic Desensitization - -What is it used for?
- Anxiety Disorders
How is it used?
- Patients are taught techniques and then exposed
-Cognitive Therapy (Beck) - -A type of psychotherapy based on identifying
negative thinking/emotions and restructuring them into positive.
Usually a time limited therapy
Effective: Depression, Anxiety, Eating Disorders
-cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) - -a blend of cognitive and behavioral
therapeutic strategies
-dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) - -a form of therapy used to treat
borderline personality disorder
mindfulness:
- focusing the mind
- directing attention
- understanding how you feel
emotional regulation:
- reducing emotional intensity
distress tolerance:
- reducing impulsivity
- crisis management
interpersonal effectiveness:
- keeping relationships steady
- getting what is needed
- maintaining your self-respect
walking the middle path:
- learning not everything is black and white
- practicing acceptance in the moment
-milieu - -the setting, surroundings, environment
patients, chairs, tables, staff,
-Basic Ethical Principles - -autonomy
confidentiality
Mental Health - -the successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or
external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that
are age-appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms
-Mental Illness - -Maladaptive responses 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
individual's social, occupational, or physical functioning
-Psychological theories - -help us to explain behavior (why)
-Psychological therapies - -treatments based on these theories (RN)
-Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud) - -Developed psychoanalysis
Application to Nursing:
- Cause of suffering, value of talk sessions,
- correct inappropriate learning patterns
-Psychosocial Development (Erickson) - -Application to Nursing:
- Individualize care to patient's developmental level
-Interpersonal theory (Sullivan) - --Believed that individual behavior and
personality development are the direct result of interpersonal relationships.
- Human behavior could be observed in social interaction with others.
Application to Nursing:
- Relationship based therapy
-Humanistic Theory (Maslow) - -
-Modeling - -What is it used for?
- Leading by example
How is it used?
- Staff demonstration, examples
-Operant Conditioning - -What is it used for?
- Positive behavior is reinforced
How is it used?
- Reward system
, -Systematic Desensitization - -What is it used for?
- Anxiety Disorders
How is it used?
- Patients are taught techniques and then exposed
-Cognitive Therapy (Beck) - -A type of psychotherapy based on identifying
negative thinking/emotions and restructuring them into positive.
Usually a time limited therapy
Effective: Depression, Anxiety, Eating Disorders
-cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) - -a blend of cognitive and behavioral
therapeutic strategies
-dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) - -a form of therapy used to treat
borderline personality disorder
mindfulness:
- focusing the mind
- directing attention
- understanding how you feel
emotional regulation:
- reducing emotional intensity
distress tolerance:
- reducing impulsivity
- crisis management
interpersonal effectiveness:
- keeping relationships steady
- getting what is needed
- maintaining your self-respect
walking the middle path:
- learning not everything is black and white
- practicing acceptance in the moment
-milieu - -the setting, surroundings, environment
patients, chairs, tables, staff,
-Basic Ethical Principles - -autonomy
confidentiality
