Exam 1 Flashcards
Mental Health is a state of ____________ in which each individual is able to realize his or her own _________, cope with the normal ________ of ________, work _________, and make a _________ to the _________.
Well-being, potential, stressors, life, productively, contribution, community
A state of well-being in which each individual is able to realize his or her own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively, and make a contribution to the community
Mental Health
Refers to all mental disorders with definable diagnosis.
Mental Illness
Mental illnesses are manifested in significant dysfunction that may be related to ______, ________, or _______ disturbances in mental functioning.
Developmental, biological, psychological
The ability and capacity for people to secure the resources they need to support their well-being.
Resilience
_________ is essential to the recovery process.
Resilience.
Behavior that deviates from socially accepted norms does not indicate mental illness unless there is significant ______ in _________ ________.
Disturbance in mental functioning.
Recognizing feelings of stress, readily dealing with them, and earning from the experience rather than falling victim to negative emotions.
Resilience
______ defines mental health as going against a norm decided by that particular group.
Culture
Drug found to have a calming effect on agitated, out of control patients that was a breakthrough in viewing mental illness as having physical symptoms.
Thorazine (chlorpromazine)
NAMI
National Alliance on Mental Illness, a group for people with mental illness and their families
Diathesis-stress model
The most accepted explanation for mental illness
Diathesis represents biological disposition
Stress represents environmental stress or trauma
_____ % of all Americans will suffer from some type of mental disorder during their lifetime.
46
More than ___% of disability is due to ________.
30, Depression
QSEN Competencies:
- Patient centered care
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Evidence based practice
- Quality improvement
- Safety
- Informatics
The quantitative study of the distribution of mental disorders in human populations
Epidemiology
Refers to the number of NEW CASES of mental disorder in a healthy population in a given period of time.
Incidence
Describes the TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES, new and existing, in a given population during a specific period of time (regardless of when they became ill).
Prevalence
Diseases with short duration (common cold) have a high ____ and low _____.
Incidence, prevalence
Chronic diseases have a low ____, and a high____.
Incidence, prevalence.
A broad field that examines health and illness at the population level.
Clinical epidemiology
DSM-5
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.)
Official medical guidelines for diagnosing psychiatric disorders
*classifies disorders not people!
ICD-9-CM
International Classification of Diseases
Clinical descriptions of mental and behavior disorders
Psychiatric mental health nursing employs a purposeful ___ of ______ as its art and a wide range of nursing, psychosocial, and neurobiological _______ and research ______ as its science, work with people throughout the _____ ______, and employed in a _____ of settings.
use of self, theories, evidence, life span, variety
Promoting mental health through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders.
Psychiatric mental health nursing
Nurses work in various supervised settings and perform roles such as staff nurse, case manager, home care nurse.
Basic Level
Nurse specialists trained to provide individual therapy, group therapy, and provide training for other staff. Have diagnostic privileges, prescriptive authority, and permission to engage in psychotherapy.
Advanced Practice
Sensitivity to different cultural view regarding health, illness, and response to treatment
Cultural competence
Future challenges and roles for psychiatric mental health nurses: (5)
Educational Aging population Cultural diversity Science, technology and Electronic health care Legislative involvement
Freud believed that a vast majority of mental disorders were due to unresolved issues that originated in ______.
Childhood
Cathartic method
Talk therapy developed by freud. Includes free association (full disclosure and honesty)
All material a person is aware of at any one time including perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, and feelings.
Conscious
Material that can be retrieved rather easily through conscious effort.
Preconscious
All repressed memories, passions, and unacceptable urges lying deep below the surface. May be placed here because individuals find the memories to painful to deal with.
Unconscious
The source of all drives, instincts, reflexes, needs, genetic inheritance, and the capacity to respond.
Id
Lacks the ability to problem solve, is not logical, and operates according to the pleasure principle.
id
The problem solver ad reality tester.
Ego
Able to differentiate subjective experiences, memory images, and objective reality and attempts to negotiate the outside world.
Ego
Represents the moral component of personality
Superego
Represents the ideal rather than the real, seeks perfection as opposed to seeking pleasure or engaging in reason
Superego
Developed by the go to ward off anxiety by preventing conscious awareness of threatening feelings.
Defense mechanisms
Two common features of defense mechanisms
- They all (except suppression) operate on an unconscious level
- Deny, falsify, or distort reality to make it less threatening
Freud’s psychosexual Stages of development
Oral (0-1) Anal (1-3) Phallic (3-6) Latency (6- 12) Genital (12+)
This model helps determine which types of interventions will be effective in nursing.
Erikson’s developmental theory
Erikson’s developmental stage- Age 0-1.5 yrs:
Trust vs. Mistrust
Erikson’s developmental stage- 1.5- 3yrs:
Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt
Erikson’s developmental stage- 3- 6yrs:
Initiative vs. guilt
Erikson’s developmental stage- 6-12yrs:
Industry vs Inferiority
Erikson’s developmental stage- 12- 20yrs:
Identity vs. Role confusion
Erikson’s developmental stage- 20- 35yrs:
Intimacy vs isolation
Erikson’s developmental stage- 35- 65yrs:
Generatively vs. Self-absorption
Erikson’s developmental stage- 65yrs+:
Integrity vs. Despair
This theorist stated that the purpose of all behavior is to get needs met through interpersonal interactions and to decrease or avoid anxiety.
Henry Sullivan
Measures the individual employs to reduce anxiety and enhance security
Security Operations (coined by Henry Sullivan)
Term which states that a professional helper cannot be isolated from the therapeutic situation if they are to be effective.
Participant observer
Established the foundation for the professional practice of psychiatric nursing.
Peplau
Therapy used to reduce or eliminate psychiatric symptoms (depression) by improving interpersonal functioning and satisfaction with social relationships. Includes Identifying the Nature of the problem
Interpersonal psychotherapy
Four types of problem areas (nature of problems) in Interpersonal psychotherapy:
Grief
Role disputes
Role transition
Interpersonal deficit
Peplau stated self-awareness is part of nursing and that nursing had two parts: the ____ component consisting of care, compassion, and advocacy and the _____ that involves application of knowledge.
art, science
______ described three levels of anxiety: _______, _______, and _____.
Peplau, Mild, moderate, panic
Pavlov described ______ ________ by using dogs and food and stated that this behavior was _______.
Classic conditioning, Involuntary
Involves pairing a behavior with a condition that reinforces or diminishes the behaviors occurrence.
Conditioning
Watson developed a school of thought called ______ using an experiment with Little Albert and stated that one could control the ______ to mold behavior.
behaviorism, environment
Skinner researched ______ ________ and stated ________ behaviors are learned through ________, either positive or negative.
operant conditioning, voluntary, reinforcement.
Modeling, Operant conditioning, systemic desensitization, aversion therapy, and biofeedback are all types of _____ therapy and work best when directed at a ____ _____ and when _____ are well defined.
Behavior, specific problem, goals
Operant conditioning is a type of behavior therapy taht uses positive reinforcement to elicit desired behaviors such as in the reward system known as _______ ________.
Token Economy
Involves the development of behavior tasks customized to the patient’s specific fears. Integrates learned relaxation techniques.
Systematic Desensitization