Mental Health & Psychiatric Nursing
Terminologies
, Psychiatry: It is a branch of
Mental illness
medicine that deals with the
Mental health Mental Illness are clinically significant conditions
diagnosis, treatment and prevention
of mental illness .
Mental Health is a state of balance between
characterized by alterations in thinking, mood Psychiatric Nursing: It is a
the individual and the surrounding world, a
(emotions), behaviour associated with personal
state of harmony between oneself and distress and impaired functioning
specialized area of nursing practice,
others, and a co existence between the employing theories of human
reality of the self and that of the others. behaviour as it is a science , and the
purposeful use of self as it is an art ,
in the diagnosis and treatment of
human responses to actual or
potential mental health problems ..
Terminologies
, Psychiatry: It is a branch of
Mental illness
medicine that deals with the
Mental health Mental Illness are clinically significant conditions
diagnosis, treatment and prevention
of mental illness .
Mental Health is a state of balance between
characterized by alterations in thinking, mood Psychiatric Nursing: It is a
the individual and the surrounding world, a
(emotions), behaviour associated with personal
state of harmony between oneself and distress and impaired functioning
specialized area of nursing practice,
others, and a co existence between the employing theories of human
reality of the self and that of the others. behaviour as it is a science , and the
purposeful use of self as it is an art ,
in the diagnosis and treatment of
human responses to actual or
potential mental health problems ..
