Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
ways to mitigate symptoms of personality disorders
Personality is a pattern of feelings, behaviors, and thinking that defines the way a person is perceived. Personality develops during childhood and remains stable during adulthood. All of us have these traits. For example, you may cut in line at the checkout counter or pretend to be sick to avoid going to a family gathering. […]
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments
schizophrenia is most characterized by
Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by a patient’s abnormal misinterpretation of reality, referred to as psychosis. The patient’s behavior seems bizarre to others because the behavior is inappropriate to reality. However, the behavior is appropriate to the patient based on their misperception of reality. For example, all of us become paranoid when walking down […]
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments
Characteristics and harmfulness of emotional disorders
Characteristics and harmfulness of emotional disorders Although for many years depression was considered a problem that afflicted only adults, in the last 30 years there has been increasing recognition that this disorder can and does occur in children, particularly in adolescents. Fifty years ago, its mean age of onset was near 30, but now it […]
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments
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 […]
Posted in mentally ill | No Comments
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 […]
Posted in mental health care | No Comments
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 […]
Posted in research report | No Comments
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 […]
Posted in research report | No Comments
Barriers to therapeutic communication
A barrier to communication is something that impairs transmitting the message or receiving the message for either the psychiatric nurse or the patient. A goal of therapeutic communication is to avoid barriers to communication. Avoiding barriers to communication is challenging since many of them are natural responses most people use in a conversation. Therefore, the […]
Posted in research report | No Comments
Therapeutic Communication Techniques
Therapeutic communication techniques are methods the psychiatric nurse can use to communicate with the patient so that the communication focuses on addressing the patient’s clinical problems. A goal of therapeutic communication is for the patient to have the opportunity to express themself freely with the psychiatric nurse. The psychiatric nurse must engage in therapeutic communication […]
Posted in research report | No Comments
Therapeutic Communication Process
Therapeutic communication is effective if the psychiatric nurse follows a communication process that fosters a therapeutic relationship between the psychiatric nurse and the patient. Here are steps to follow: Introduce yourself by name and title to the patient. Ask the patient how they would like to be addressed. Recognize that your nonverbal communication greatly influences […]
Posted in research report | No Comments
Mental health articles
- 5 Simple Tips to Boost Your Mental Health and Prevent Mental Illness
- Stress Less: Simple Strategies to Keep Burnout at Bay
- Unmasking the Silent Predator: Understanding Depression
- generalized anxiety disorder possible causes
- acute stress disorder nursing interventions
- acute stress disorder nursing diagnosis
- primary treatment for acute stress disorder
- test for acute stress disorder
- acute stress disorder signs and symptoms
- acute stress disorder causes
Some of our content is collected from Internet, please contact us when some of them is tortious. Email: cnpsy@126.com