Theories and Therapies
Considering the total environment (people, setting, structures), this type of therapy can help the patient increase self-esteem and decrease social isolation
What is Milieu Therapy?
A Cluster A personality disorder, this disorder resembles schizophrenia with magical thinking and rituals
What is schizotypal?
This live interactive mechanism is a way to provide access to people who otherwise might not receive good medical or psychosocial help
What is Telehealth?
This can occur when an individual has been exposed to a trauma which leaves them feeling helpless or powerless
What is PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)?
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition is considered the 'bible' for mental health workers
What is Fact?
Consisting of people who share a common purpose, this therapy provides support for the participants
What is Group Therapy?
This cluster type is depicted as dramatic, flamboyant behavior and often use manipulation
What is Cluster B Disorder?
The nurse recognizes the patient is using this process when he tells her, "You look like my mother. She didn't like me either."
What is Transference?
Formally known as Multiple Personality Disorder, this disorder is the presence of two or more personalities that control behavior
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Nurses have a duty to report Child Abuse, Elder Abuse, and suspicion of Negligence/ Illegal Activity of a colleague
What is Fact?
This therapy seeks to modify negative thoughts that lead to dysfunctional emotions and actions
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
This cluster type is depicted as odd or eccentric behavior
What is Cluster A Disorder?
These types of questions imply criticism or accusations and should be avoided when using therapeutic communication
What are WHY questions?
Blanking out/ memory gaps or recurrent feelings of being detached/ 'splitting' are symptoms of this disorder
What are Dissociative disorders?
The right to privacy (HIPAA) no longer needs to be enforced after the patient dies
What is fiction?
Freud's Psychoanalytic theory identifies this personality structure as our moral component
What is the Superego?
This cluster type is depicted as high anxiety and fearful behavior
What is Cluster C Disorders?
This form of communication reminds us that body posture and facial expressions are important when communicating with a patient
What is Nonverbal?
Sexual assault PTSD symptoms (name two)
What are re-experiencing the trauma, social withdrawal, avoidance behaviors/ actions, increased psychologic arousal characteristics, fears/ phobia, nightmares/ difficulty sleeping?
Caring is giving of self while preserving the importance of self
What is Fact?
When therapists sit down and interact with the patient, they in essence are practicing Sullivan's theory through this interaction
What is Interpersonal interaction/ Interpersonal Theory?
A Cluster C personality disorder, this disorder has a person reluctant to take personal risks for fear of embarrassment or rejection
What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
Using this form of questioning facilitates spontaneous responses and interactive discuss when compared to the opposing form of questioning which can block further communication
What are open-ended questions?
This psychotherapeutic treatment involves the patient gradually confronting the trauma related memories, feelings, or situations. It can also be done using virtual reality
What is Prolonged Exposure Therapy?
A nurse cannot be held responsible for a breach of duty if the hospital they work in does not have policies addressing the substandard care the nurse is accused of
What is Fiction?