Meet the Team
Nursing Roles
Terminology
Treatment of Mental Illness
Miscellaneous
100
Team member that may have any level of degree, including an advanced practice degree, and is responsible for developing and implementing the patient's plan of care and for the patient's physical and mental health care.
What is a Psychiatric Nurse?
100
Nursing duty performed daily and in mental health nursing additional focus is in the form of responses to medication or therapy, and patient behaviors.
What is Assessment?
100
Begins with the assumption that everyone can experience functional growth in interpersonal relationships and the demands of daily living.
What is Therapeutic Intervention?
100
Considered successful when constructive change occurs from uncovering issues within a person's life using insight into feelings, behavior, and interpersonal skills.
What is Psychotherapy?
100
Nurses and other interdisciplinary team members need to be both of these to maintain an objective view of the patient. [Hint- Two terms: One meaning fair or impartial and the other meaning to withhold forming an opinion.]
What is Unbiased and Nonjudgmental?
200
A board-certified licensed physician who specializes in psychiatric or mental disorders that can prescribe medications and provide psychotherapy.
What is a Psychiatrist?
200
Performing tasks such as obtaining vital signs, dressing changes, caring for hygiene needs.
What is basic patient care or basic nursing interventions?
200
Includes ECT, psychotherapy, medication, biomedical, and sometimes a combination.
What is Therapy?
200
Using activities to allow the patient to express emotions and feelings that she would otherwise be unable to do through a therapist's assessment of the patient's internal affective and psychological response.
What is Play Therapy?
200
Involves an agreement between therapist and patient where rewards are exchanged for conducting oneself appropriately and as outlined in therapy.
What is Contracting?
300
Functions as a caregiver, counselor, educator, and advocate for patients.
What is the Nurse?
300
Includes verbal explanation, demonstration, written information, and evaluation of the patient's response, including understanding.
What is Education?
300
Refers to the environment: in mental health care this refers to a safe, secure, and structured setting that facilitates therapeutic communication.
What is Therapeutic Milieu?
300
Used for anxiety, attempting to produce a desired change and control physiological functions when reactions occur from triggers.
What is Biofeedback?
300
The five main approaches to Individual Therapy, considered Psychotherapies.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Contracting, and Behavioral Therapy?
400
Masters or doctorate prepared team member that works with community resources, provides support, liaison, placement, and referral services, and helps patients deal with daily problems.
What is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)?
400
Involves a willingness to understand the client's perspective, provide resources available to client, safeguard the client's rights, and provide empathy and understanding.
What is patient Advocate?
400
Used to restore chemical balance to the brain through induction of short periods of seizure activity.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
400
Depending on trust, openness, and interpersonal risk-taking, interaction among members allows each to hear the other's perceptions and behaviors. Effective in the use of conflict resolution, problem solving, managing self-control, socialization, and communication.
What is Group Therapy?
400
Client behaviors that are NOT tolerated in the clinical setting to maintain therapeutic milieu and need to be outlined in rules and policy.
What is aggression, physical violence, inappropriate confrontations, foul language.
500
Masters or Doctorate-prepared provider that can work independently or as part of a mental health team and can administer and interpret diagnostic psychological testing.
What is a Clinical Psychologist?
500
Requires active listening and therapeutic communication and to allow the patient to openly express feeling and thoughts.
What is Counselor?
500
An adjunctive therapy that exposes a person to conflict and disturbances in a controlled environment to elicit anger and aggression responses.
What is Agitation Therapy?
500
Includes gradual exposure to phobias or other stress-inducing situations to teach effective techniques to manage reactions.
What is Behavioral Therapy?
500
Individual Therapy and Group Therapy
What are the two types of Psychotherapy?
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