Treatment of Mental Illness
The safe and secure structured environment that facilitates the therapeutic interaction between clients and members of the professional team?
What is therapeutic milieu?
An emotion triggered in response to threats, insulting situations, or anything that seriously hampers the intended actions of an individual.
What is anger?
A process of exchanging information involving the person sending a message, the person receiving the message, and the message itself.
What is communication?
A scientific and systematic method for providing effective individualized nursing care and serves as an aid in resolving client problems.
What is the nursing process?
A vague, uneasy emotional feeling experienced by a person in response to a perceived threat or danger.
What is anxiety?
Name of a licensed physician who specializes in psychiatric or mental disorders.
Who is a psychiatrist?
Used repeatedly to intentionally bring harm or humiliation to another who is seen as weak or different.
What is bullying?
Speech patterns often reflect distorted thoughts and processing flaws that occur as the person is attempting to transmit a message. Name four of the six common speech patterns.
What is:
Blocking
Circumstantiality
Echolalia
Loose Association
Flight of Ideas
Neologism
Data provided by the client and typically include the client's history and perception of the present situation or problem, in addition to feelings, thoughts, symptoms, or emotions that he or she may be experiencing.
What is subjective data?
An avoidance 0f certain places or situations that tend to trigger the panic attacks.
What is agoraphobia?
A dialog between a mental health practitioner and the client with a goal of reducing the symptoms of the emotional disturbance or disorder and improving the individual's personal and social well-being is called?
What is psychotherapy?
A pattern of behavior that is used by the perpetrator or batterer to gain power and control over another person through fear and intimidation that often includes threats or use of physical violence.
What is domestic violence?
Therapeutic communication includes both ___________ and ___________ techniques in the exchange of information between the nurse and the client.
What is both verbal and nonverbal?
It is intended to encourage, maintain, and reestablish a level of mental and physical functioning that promotes the clients well-being.
What are nursing interventions?
Recurrent persistent and unwanted thoughts or images that cause intense anxiety for the person experiencing them.
What are obsessions?
Name the 4 major categories of drugs used to treat mental disorders.
What are:
Antianxiety Agents
Antidepressants
Mood Stabilizers
Antipsychotic Agents
This crisis differs from stress and anxiety in that a state of disorganization and disarray occurs in the individual as usual coping strategies fail or are not available.
What is a psychological crisis?
It allows the client to regain composure or collect thoughts and is a way of showing respect and concern for what the client has to say.
What is silence?
The phase which is a form of validation for the entire nursing process in the delivery of care to the client?
What is the evaluation phase?
Occurs in situations when embarrassment may result from the exposure and the individual is unable to control the symptoms.
What is social phobia or social anxiety disorder?
The process of working towards a common care goal that is mutually shared by the client is referred to as the _______
What is the therapeutic process?
Three factors that can cause an individual to attempt or actually be successful at ending his or her own life.
What are:
Anger
Depression
Guilt
Name five effective verbal communication techniques?
What is:
Clarification
Validation
Reflection
Restating
Focusing
Giving information
Using silence
Offering of Oneself
Reinforcing Reality
It includes the client's history and mental or emotional status including both subjective and objective data.
What is a basic psychosocial nursing assessment?
Used in the treatment of anxiety disorders, anxiety symptoms, acute alcohol withdrawal, and convulsive or seizure disorders.
What are antianxiety agents or anxiolytics?