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perception not everyone sees everything the same way
why do we see different prior knowledge, belief system (from school, parents),
things? judgments, prior experiences
working with patient's how does she view herself? what is your perception?
perception what's important to remember?
-WHO- a state of well-being in which each individual is
able to realize his/her own potential, cope with the
normal stress of life, work productively, and make a
contribution to the community
-a person cannot be considered healthy without taking
into account mental health as well as physical health
mental health
-mind/body connection
-mental health provides people with the capacity for
rational thinking, communication, skill,s learning,
emotional growth, resilience, and self-esteem
-shaped by belief, culture, society, politics,
reimbursement
-mentally healthy individuals have a positive attitude
towards themselves
-objective view of self, including acceptance of own
components of mental
strengths and limitations
health: self-knowledge
-successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or
external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings
and behaviors that are age appropriate and congruent
, with local and cultural norms
-knowing when you are stressed, when not, when you
are okay
-in a way that works
components of mental
-being assertive
health: resolves conflicts
-letting people know what you need
-of others and self
-in order to meet the needs of others, people need to
components of mental
first be able to meet their own needs
health: meets needs
-can't take care of your parent or child without being able
to care for yourself
components of mental
-a healthy individual is able to make choices and accept
health: responsible for
responsibility for the outcomes of their behavior
actions
components of mental -individual is able to maintain balance
health: adapts to new -responds adaptively to the environment
situations; handles crises -able to handle crises
-process of adapting and helps people facing tragedies,
loss, trauma, and severe stress
-ability to secure resources they need to support their
components of mental well-being
health: resilience -resilient people typically learn early on how to handle
situations to come to a positive outcome
-effective at regulating their emotions- resilient people
can bounce back
-stress- both positive (excitement) and negative, a little
stress about an exam helps you study but becomes bad
when debilitating
-disease- especially chronic disease, affects mental
health
factors influencing mental -trauma- physical and psychological, can make people
health feel out of control
-drug abuse- especially neurotoxins, people use drugs
when stressed, but changes chemicals in brain to make
it worse
-cultural factors- gender, racial
-environmental issues- poverty, genetics
-adaptive to maladaptive
mental health continuum -maladaptive- diagnosable mental illness
-mental health to mental illness
-universal concept of mental illness is difficult
-mental illness is characterized as maladaptive
responses to stressors from the internal or external
defining mental disorders
environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors that are incongruent with the local and
cultural norms and that interfere with the individual's
, social, occupational, and/or physical functioning
-not diagnosable unless it is interfering with some level
of functioning- goes for ALL diseases
-primary burden is the illness itself
-secondary is the stigma attached to mental disorders
-lack of parity in insurance coverage- no insurance- no
access to care- very hard to treat
-companies do not treat mental illness like physical
burden of mental illness illness
-economic costs to individual and society
-1 in 4 adults experiences a mental health disorder in a
given year
-early identification is key to prevent debilitation and
suicide
-developed by APA for evaluation of the client's mental
status and standardization of symptomology to develop
diagnoses of mental illness
-for clinicians to have a common language to
DSM-V
communicate characteristics of mental disorders
presented by their patients
-diagnosis manual- what psychiatrists use to diagnose
-makes diagnoses standardized
-based on response to illness
-treat problems that are happening due to the effects of
the illness, not treat the illness itself
-treat problems associated with an illness
nursing care in psych
-holistic- treat biological, psychological, social and
spiritual components
-part of multidisciplinary team
-client is actively engaged in their care
-nurses caring for them, charge nurse, psychiatrist
(attending & resident), social worker, discharge planner
(where go from here, abuse/neglect?), therapist,
multidisciplinary TEAM
substance abuse counselor, rec therapist, pharmacist,
client is actively engaged in their care
-whole team meets together every day or 3 times a week
where is mental illness inpatient facilities, community settings, emergency
treated? rooms/ departments, private providers
-varies with nurse's preparation
role of the nurse -guided by Practice Standards
-must involve both the art and the science of nursing
-"the ability to use one's personality consciously & in full
awareness in an attempt to establish relatedness &
therapeutic use of self
structure nursing interventions"
-requires self awareness & self