What is a Principle? - ANSWER A principle is a code or standard that helps
govern our conduct. Principles guide decisions and actions. Professional
principles provide guidelines. Standards of care, provincial regulatory bodies,
and principles guide most healthcare professions.
What is Health? - ANSWER Health is a changing state influenced by genetics,
behaviour, and the environment.
What is Mental Health? - ANSWER Mental health reflects changing status as
the stresses of life are encountered
What are the 7 Principles of Health Care? and how do Care Providers apply
them? - ANSWER 1. Not harm: Protect the patient and avoid any action that
would result in damage to the patient.
2. Accept each patient as a whole person: Accept differences, view a patient
holistically.
3. Develop mutual trust: Caring, empathy, and advocacy.
4. Explore behaviours and emotions: Finding the meaning of the behaviour, and
what purpose it serves.
5. Encourage responsibility: Helps build self-worth, dignity, and confidence.
7. Encourage effective adaption: Taking one step at a time, intervening during a
crisis, and learning coping mechanisms.
8. Provide consistency: Set limits, focus on positive changes, be steady, regular
and dependable.
The Development of Trust between Patient and Care givers involves what 3
concepts? - ANSWER 1. Caring plays an especially important role in
developing trust. A patient knows, subconsciously, whether you actually care
about them or think of them like just another patient. A patient must truly
believe that you care, before they develop trust.
, 2. Empathy is the ability to recognize and share the emotions of another person
without actually experiencing them. Empathy is a powerful therapeutic tool. If
patients believe that you are willing to share their discomforts, they become
more interested in learning to help themselves.
3. Advocacy is the process of providing a patient with the information, support,
and feedback needed to make a decision. Patient advocacy adds the obligation
to act in the patient's best interest. When patients feel that their care providers
understand and act in their best interest, trust is established.
Every behaviour serves a purpose and has meaning, they are attempts to fill
personal needs and goals... What does a behaviour consist of? - ANSWER
Perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is a Crisis? - ANSWER A crisis is an upset in the homeostasis (steady of
state) of an individual.
Name each of the phases a person goes through when experiencing a crisis: -
ANSWER 1. Perception (of the event, severity of the threat, available coping
strategies).
2. Denial (emotional Feeling to protect the individual from stress).
3. Crisis (Coping mechanisms were ineffective).
4. Disorganization (Anxiety, Attempts to reorganize or escape, Failed attempts).
5. Recovery (Seek help, attempts to cope are successful, Growth).
6. Reorganization (Headed back to homeostasis).
**What are the Three Main Types of Coping Mechanisms?** - ANSWER 1.
Psychomotor (Physical) - Confrontation, Fighting, Running, Negotiating.
2. Cognitive (Intellectual) - Making comparisons, Substituting rewards,
Ignoring.
3. Affective (Emotional) - Denial, Suppression, Defence Mechanisms.
The main goal of the crisis intervention is to help individuals and families
manage their crisis situations by offering immediate emotional support. What
are the six steps (guidelines) for providing safe, effective crisis intervention? -
ANSWER 1. Care is needed immediately (emotional support).
2. Control.
3. Assessment.
4. Patient Disposition is determined.
govern our conduct. Principles guide decisions and actions. Professional
principles provide guidelines. Standards of care, provincial regulatory bodies,
and principles guide most healthcare professions.
What is Health? - ANSWER Health is a changing state influenced by genetics,
behaviour, and the environment.
What is Mental Health? - ANSWER Mental health reflects changing status as
the stresses of life are encountered
What are the 7 Principles of Health Care? and how do Care Providers apply
them? - ANSWER 1. Not harm: Protect the patient and avoid any action that
would result in damage to the patient.
2. Accept each patient as a whole person: Accept differences, view a patient
holistically.
3. Develop mutual trust: Caring, empathy, and advocacy.
4. Explore behaviours and emotions: Finding the meaning of the behaviour, and
what purpose it serves.
5. Encourage responsibility: Helps build self-worth, dignity, and confidence.
7. Encourage effective adaption: Taking one step at a time, intervening during a
crisis, and learning coping mechanisms.
8. Provide consistency: Set limits, focus on positive changes, be steady, regular
and dependable.
The Development of Trust between Patient and Care givers involves what 3
concepts? - ANSWER 1. Caring plays an especially important role in
developing trust. A patient knows, subconsciously, whether you actually care
about them or think of them like just another patient. A patient must truly
believe that you care, before they develop trust.
, 2. Empathy is the ability to recognize and share the emotions of another person
without actually experiencing them. Empathy is a powerful therapeutic tool. If
patients believe that you are willing to share their discomforts, they become
more interested in learning to help themselves.
3. Advocacy is the process of providing a patient with the information, support,
and feedback needed to make a decision. Patient advocacy adds the obligation
to act in the patient's best interest. When patients feel that their care providers
understand and act in their best interest, trust is established.
Every behaviour serves a purpose and has meaning, they are attempts to fill
personal needs and goals... What does a behaviour consist of? - ANSWER
Perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is a Crisis? - ANSWER A crisis is an upset in the homeostasis (steady of
state) of an individual.
Name each of the phases a person goes through when experiencing a crisis: -
ANSWER 1. Perception (of the event, severity of the threat, available coping
strategies).
2. Denial (emotional Feeling to protect the individual from stress).
3. Crisis (Coping mechanisms were ineffective).
4. Disorganization (Anxiety, Attempts to reorganize or escape, Failed attempts).
5. Recovery (Seek help, attempts to cope are successful, Growth).
6. Reorganization (Headed back to homeostasis).
**What are the Three Main Types of Coping Mechanisms?** - ANSWER 1.
Psychomotor (Physical) - Confrontation, Fighting, Running, Negotiating.
2. Cognitive (Intellectual) - Making comparisons, Substituting rewards,
Ignoring.
3. Affective (Emotional) - Denial, Suppression, Defence Mechanisms.
The main goal of the crisis intervention is to help individuals and families
manage their crisis situations by offering immediate emotional support. What
are the six steps (guidelines) for providing safe, effective crisis intervention? -
ANSWER 1. Care is needed immediately (emotional support).
2. Control.
3. Assessment.
4. Patient Disposition is determined.
