Ego Defense Mechanisms
This defense mechanism is seen when an individual refuses to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it.
What is denial?
Under this law, clients have the right to access their medical records, to have corrections made to records, and to decide with whom their medical information may be shared.
An interaction between two people in which input from both participants contributes to a climate of healing
What is therapeutic relationship?
This leadership style allows people to do as they please, without any direction from the leader.
What is Laissez-Faire?
Conditioning, reinforcement, modeling, applied behavior analysis
What is Behavior Theory?
This mechanism involves attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors.
What is rationalization?
Communicating with an attorney
Sending and receiving mail without censorship
Having visitors
Receiving basic necessities of life
Being protected from harm
What rights are retained by clients with psychiatric disorders?
The goal of this type of therapy is too manipulate the environment so that the all aspects of the client's care is considered therapeutic.
What is milieu therapy?
This treatment modality identifies the family, rather then any one individual, as the client.
What is family therapy?
Effects of social and cultural influences on an individual
Impact of social influences
Impact of cultural and ethnic factors
What is Sociocultural Theory?
When a 2 year old is hospitalized for tonsillitis, he will drink only from a bottle, although his mother states he has been drinking from a cup for 6 months.
What is regression?
Client who refuses hospitalization or treatment but poses a danger to self or others and is mentally ill
What is involuntary commitment?
This example of non-therapeutic communication is when a nurse already knows the outcome of the situation and mimimizes the patient's expressed concerns.
What is false reassurance?
This therapeutic factor in groups is the practice of mutual sharing and concern for each other.
What is altruism?
Changing distorted cognitions/thoughts
Rational problem solving
What is Cognitive and Cognitive-Behavioral (Dialectic) Theory?
This mechanism is characterized by the transfer of feelings from one target to another that is less threatening.
What is displacement?
The party responsible for evaluating and maintaining appropriate ethical boundaries
What are nurses?
This type of patient-centered communication promotes behavior change by guiding patients to explore their own motivation for change.
What is motivational interviewing?
The three major roles that individuals play within membership of the group
What are task roles, personal roles, and maintenance roles?
The focus of the Humanistic Perspective Theory
What are human beings, potentialities, and personal growth?
A woman who is addicted to alcohol blames her husband for her excessive drinking
What is projection?
This is the conduct that reflects the way a person interprets basic respect for other persons, such as the respect for autonomy, freedom, justice, honesty, and confidentiality
What is moral behavior?
This phenomena of the working phase refer's to a nurse's behavioral and emotional response to the patient.
What is countertransference?
This type of group therapy is less threatening and allows clients to become "actors" in life-situation scenarios.
What is psychodrama?
The Interpersonal Perspective theory believes that this stage of life is important in shaping human beings and self concept
What is early childhood?