PSYCHIATRIC /MENTAL HEALTH NURSING FOR REGISTERED GENERAL NURSING REGISTERED MIDWIFERY REGISTERED NURSING ASSISTANTS C&P
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Course
Nursing
Institution
Durham University (DUT)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPT OF MENTAL HEALTH / ILLNESS
The concepts of mental health and mental illness are culturally defined.
Some cultures are quite liberal in the range of behaviors that are considered acceptable, where- as others have very little tolerance for behaviors that devi...
FOR
REGISTERED GENERAL NURSING
REGISTERED MIDWIFERY
REGISTERED NURSING ASSISTANTS C&P
Say no to mental illness!!!
1
,INTRODUCTION
This course is structured to introduce the student to the concept of mental health and illness, the various
types of mental disorders using the international classification of disease (ICD) with Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual (DSM) terminologies. It would also highlight on the use of the nursing process to
manage patients suffering from various mental conditions, discuss the mental health law that regulates
the Mental Health practice and the various therapies used in Mental Health.
The student will be able to know the concept of mental health and mental illness, various types of mental
disorders using ICD with DSM terminologies, use the nursing process to manage patients suffering from
various mental conditions, and discuss the mental health law that regulates the Mental Health practice
and the various therapies used in Mental Health.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am most Grateful to the Almighty God for his guidance and survival, may he continue to be great and
merciful.
I express my profound gratitude to my colleagues’ tutors for their support: Mr. Alika D. Nerius, Mr. Mc
Morris, Mr. Sharif Alhassan , Mr. Albert Asuuri, Mr. Amardi Frank, Mr.Ernest Gyamwodie, Mr. Ernest
Zanteba for their support.
Lastly to all my students in various behavioural science courses (psychiatry, psychology, sociology,
social science, community based rehabilitation and others) in MTC BOLGA, NTC BOLGA, NMTC
ZUARUNGU, DIST. UG AND DIS. UCC, may this piece of information be a success in your NMC
exams.
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,DEDICATIONS
I dedicate this work to my son and my back bone: Baby Jiovanni Ohene-Brempong and Mrs. Abigail
Ohene-Brempong respectively.
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