Mental Health Care Systems Chp 2
What is the model that views clients holistically and provides assistance in the community?
Community Support System (CSS)
What consists of steps of choosing, prizing, and acting?
Values clarification
Making plans with the client and sticking to it is a very effective way to build_____.
Trust
How should the nurse communicate with a client that has schizophrenia with auditory hallucinations?
use simple, concrete language
Crisis stabilization in treatment settings usually lasts how long?
1-2 days
What community agency delivers meals to the older adult in their home?
Meals on Wheels
Being asked to do a procedure that you are not familiar with and you are unsure whether this is in your scope of practice. Where can the nurse find the answer?
State Nurse Practice Act
What is it called when the nurse works in behalf of the client?
advocacy
What is it called when a nurse continually repeats the client's statements in an attempt to show understanding of the client's message?
Parroting
What term is given to repeated inpatient admissions?
recidivism
This Therapists works well with children who have difficulty expressing their thoughts and feelings.
Expressive Therapist
Threatening a client is?
assault
What is an effective way of understanding the meaning of the clients behavior you are observing?
Asking/talking with the client.
Listening, silence,and reflection are all examples of what kind of communication?
therapeutic communication
Good hygiene habits not only meets basic physiological needs, but it also meets the need of_________.
love and belonging
The most important advantage of inpatient psychiatric care is that it provides clients with a
_________.
safe and secure environment
The right of people to act for themselves and make personal choices is called?
autonomy
The first priority for helping to reduce high anxiety levels in a crisis intervention is_____.
offer immediate emotional support
What should the nurse do when she is trying to talk to a client and the environment is a non-therapeutic with many distractions?
Change the environment to decrease distractions
Bright colors in the environment of the client are often_______.
stimulating
The case management for a client requiring community mental health services which include which of the following? select all that apply:
advocacy/ crisis intervention/ provision of referrals to a shelter/ administration of psychotropic medications/developing a client's plan of care
advocacy
crisis intervention
referrals to a shelter
What is verbal defamation?
slander
What kind of care encompasses all aspects of an individual?
Holistic
What would you do if you were talking with a client and she became silent?
Remain silent and observe nonverbal communication
What are thoughts or beliefs that cannot be changed by rational explanations.
delusions