Mental health articles
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May, 2020
Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
The US Surgeon General reports that about 5 million children and adolescents in the United States have a serious mental illness. A serious mental illness is a diagnosable mental disorder that impairs a child’s daily life. The challenge that a practitioner faces is to differentiate between normal growth and development in a child who at […]
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Foundation of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Mental illness is a psychological or behavioral disorder that alters thinking, mood, and the ability to perform activities of daily living and to relate to others. There is no medical test used to diagnose a mental disorder. Instead, practitioners use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) published by the American Psychiatric Association […]
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Nursing barriers to therapeutic communication
A psychiatric patient may display bizarre behavior during a psychiatric episode. Bizarre behavior can invoke a nontherapeutic response from the psychiatric nurse when the psychiatric nurse reacts intuitively to the patient’s bizarre behavior and sends an inappropriate nonverbal message to the patient. It is important that the psychiatric nurse avoid responses that are barriers to […]
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Psychiatric barriers to therapeutic communication
A patient’s psychiatric disorder can cause barriers to effective communication with a patient. The psychiatric nurse must employ techniques that overcome those barriers to engage the patient in therapeutic communication. Here are some tips to help communicate with patients with specific psychiatric disorders. Delusion: A patient who has delusions has irrational beliefs but believes their […]
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