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Mental Health & Illness 2008-06-15 15:40:07 DSM-IV-TR: Mental Illness/Disorder is defined as a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern associated with distress or disability......with increased risk of death, pain, disability and is not a reasonable (expectable) response to a particular situation (APA 2000). On the other hand Mental Health
is defined as a state of successful performance of mental function, Read more:Mental Health
Coping and Defense Mechanism in Psychiatry 2008-06-15 15:39:48 Coping Mechanism involves any effort to decrease the stress response. It can be constructive or destructive, task oriented, or defense oriented, regulating the response to protect oneself. If destructive coping mechanism is happened, it often cause a mental health disorder because the person avoids the problem or stress that causes the disorder. And neurotic or psychotic behaviors can result when Read more:Coping
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Nurse - Client Relationship 2008-06-15 15:37:51 Nurse – Client
relationship is essential in nursing practice. The basic element of the relationship between nurse and client depends on the interaction of thought, feeling, and action of each person. The patient will experience better health when all their needs are fully considered in the relationship (Peplau, Interpersonal Relation 9).Nurse establishes and maintains this relationship by nursin Read more:Nurse
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Mental Health Admission and Client Rights 2008-07-05 06:58:20 There are two types of admission and discharge in Mental Health
Care :Voluntary AdmissionClient
agree to accept treatmentCivil rights are retained fully by the client and the client is free to sign out of the hospitalThe client has the right to demand and receive releaseAny client of lawful age may apply in writing for admission to the hospitalInvoluntary AdmissionClient who has legal capacity to Read more:Rights
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Therapeutic Communication in Nursing 2008-06-26 16:40:06 Therapeutic Communication is a important thing in delivering a care for patient, as well as part of nursing skills to achieves nursing goal as part of nursing care plan. Communication is defined as a process of generating and transmitting meaning and it includes verbal and non verbal communication. Successful communication includes appropriateness, efficiency, flexibility, and feedback.Element of Read more:Nursing
Model Of Care: Milieu Therapy 2008-07-17 14:19:54 Milieu therapy is an treatment environment in which everyday events and interactions are therapeutically designed for the purpose of enhancing social skills and building confidence. It provides a safe environment adapted to the client’s needs, comport, and freedom of expression.Milieu therapy is staffed by persons trained to provide support, and all members contribute to the planning and functi Read more:Therapy
Anxiety Related Disorder 2008-07-29 12:32:08 Anxiety-related disorders are the most common of all psychiatric disorders. Client with these disorder will experience physiologic, cognitive, and behavioral symptoms.Physiologic manifestations are related to the fight and flight response that result in cardiovascular, respiratory, neuromuscular, and gastrointestinal stimulation. The cognitive symptoms are apprehension, uneasiness, an uncertainty.
Anxiety Disorder Classification (part-1) 2008-08-07 08:00:24 Acute Stress DisorderClient with acute stress disorder will develop three or more of these dissociative symptoms:Subjective sense of numbingNo emotional responsivenessFeeling dazedDepersonalizationDerealizationAmnesiaDuration of acute stress disorder would be 2 days to 4 weeks.Generalized Anxiety DisorderClient with generalized anxiety disorder will develop three off the four categories:Autonomic Read more:Classification
Model of Care: Behavior Modification 2008-09-10 05:25:26 Behavior Modification is the systematic use of principles of conditioning and learning, especially operant or instrumental conditioning, to teach certain skills or to extinguish undesirable behaviors, attitudes, or phobias. There are types of behavior modification: behavior therapy, self-control therapy, desensitization, aversion therapy, modeling therapy, and operant conditioning.Behavior Therapy Read more:Behavior
Model of Care: Psychotherapy 2008-09-03 17:39:03 Psychotherapy is treatment of emotional, behavioral, personality, and psychiatric disorders based primarily upon verbal or nonverbal communication and interventions with the patient, in contrast to treatments utilizing chemical and physical measures. Verbal means communication. Non verbal techniques include silence, body language, facial expressions, and respect for personal space.There are three
Anxiety Disorder Classification (part-2) 2008-08-21 05:26:21 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)This stress disorder occurs after experiencing a psychologically traumatic event outside the range of usual experience such as rape, combat, bombings, kidnapping. The person with posttraumatic stress disorder re-experiences the event through recurrent dreams and flashbacks.Person with post-traumatic stress disorder may commonly uses emotional numbness, detachm Read more:Classification
Phobias 2008-09-26 21:25:33 Phobia is an irrational fear of an object or situation that persist although the person may recognize it as unreasonable. It is associated with panic level anxiety if the object, situation, or activity cannot be avoided. The word of phobia is used as a combining form in many term expressing the object that inspires the fears.Types of Phobias
:Acrophobia : fear of heightsAgoraphobia : Fear of open s
Model of Care: Group Therapy 2008-09-21 20:35:54 There are three stages of group development: Initial stage, working stage, and termination stage. Each stage has specific character.Initial Stage:This is the first stage in which the members become acquainted with each other and search for similarity between themselves.Trusting communication is important in this stage.Structuring of group norms, roles and responsibilities are taking place in this Read more:Group
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Model of Care: Cognitive Therapy 2008-09-21 20:24:55 Cognitive therapy is an active, directive, time-limited , structured approach that is designed to identify reality testing and correct distorted conceptualization and the dysfunctional belief underlying these cognition.The therapist tries to help the client to think and act more realistically and adaptively so it can reduce the psychological problem. Read more:Therapy
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