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Intro to Psych Flashcards

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Mental Health Overview

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  • lifelong process of successful adaptation to an ever-changing internal and external environment
  • positive/adaptive coping mechanisms
  • individual is in contact with reality and the environment
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Resilience

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-ability to function with healthy responses even when experiencing significant stress and adversity

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What is resilience influenced by?

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  • optimism, or belief that a positive outcome is possible in the situation they are currently facing
  • self efficancy, or belief that they have the ability to complete the tasks needed to take control of situations which influence their life
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Coping

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  • can be emotion focused or problem focused

- problem focused is use of more problem solving and finding meaning

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Ability to function

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  • within occupational or school environment

- within a family system

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Cognitive Coping

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emotional: oh its not that bad
problem: what are my odds of surviving

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Behavioral Coping

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emotional: physical activity to avoid thinking about the stressful event
problem: adhereing to a health care plan

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Affective Coping

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emotional: hoping for a miracle
problem: keeping feelings from interfering

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Erikson’s Stage: Young Adulthood

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18-25 years (intimacy vs. Isolation)

successful: developing healthy romantic relationships without losing personal identity
unsuccessful: isolation, avoidance of intimacy, fear of commitment

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Erikson’s Stage: Adulthood

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25-65 years (generativity vs. stagnation)

successful: productivity and creativity. Desire to care for and guide offspring
(if no kids, guide next generation)

unsuccessful: self-preoccupation, primary attainment of pleasure through self indulgence, stagnation

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Erikson’s Stage: Maturity

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65-death (integrity vs. despair)

successful: sense of peace concerning life experiences, life choices framed within meaningful context, development of wisdom
unsuccessful: life experiences framed by bitterness/regret, may progress to hopelessness/depression

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Mental Illness

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  • loss of the ability to respond to the environment in ways that are in accord with one’s own or society’s expectations
  • characterized by thoughts, feelings, or behavior patterns that impair functioning and cause the individual (or others!) distress
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Adaptations to Stress with mental illness

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  • feels out of control with self and with the environment
  • has a negative perception of the environment/life in general
  • has ineffective coping mechanisms
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Personality Characteristics of mental illness

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  • non-accepting of self and dislikes self
  • unrealistic perception of strengths and weaknesses
  • thoughts and perceptions may not be reality based
  • unable to find meaning and purpose in life
  • lacks direction and productivity in life
  • has difficulty in meeting own needs
  • adapative vs maladaptive responses/behaviors/coping skills
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Interpersonal Relationships with mental illness

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  • unable to love and care for others (with appropriate and healthy boundaries)
  • unable to feel loved by others or accept feelings from others
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Historical timeline of mental illness treatment

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1793: released from chains in Paris Hospital

Mid 19th century: continued belief in moral causes of mental illness

1847-1851: Hope Retreat

1937: Electric Shock Therapy
1946: National Institute of Mental Health
1950: Intro of Psychotropic drugs
1963: Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 (De-institutionalization of care)
2008: mental health parity
2010: Affordable care act

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Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

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  • diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential mental health problems
  • specialized area of nursing practice
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Psych nursing draws from multiple theoretical models

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  • biological
  • counseling
  • Hildegard Peplau’s
  • Therapeutic use of self
  • QSEN
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Influence of Hildegard Peplau

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  • introduced the concept of a therapeutic relationship
  • different from social relationship
  • requires therapeutic use of self
  • important for nurse to have self awareness/understanding of own philospohies about life, death and human condition
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conditions that promote development of a therapeutic relationship

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  • trust
  • genuineness
  • empathy
  • rapport
  • respect
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Stages of Therapeutic relationship

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  1. preinteraction
  2. orientation
  3. working
    4 termination
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the focus of a therapeutic relationship

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-promotion of mental health and prevention of mental illness in individuals, families, and groups in the communities

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Collaborative Inpatient care

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-physician, nurse, social services, occupational therapy and mental health counselors, peer specialists

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The physician creates a diagnosis based on…

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  • assessment
  • data gathered by other disciplines
  • DSM 5
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Social services...
helps the patient find placement
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DSM 5
is short for the diagnostic and statistical Manual of Mental Illness version 5 - lists psychiatric diagnoses - lists criteria patients need to meet to be diagnosed with a disorder
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Role of the nurse
- safe milieu - therapeutic milieu - safe practice - ethical and legal guidelines
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Safety
- focus on maintaining safety of patients and staff - accomplished through prevention - monitoring patients - assessing patients: implementing safety precautions prn - controlling contraband - milieu management strategies - culture of safety implemented at some hospitals includes evidence based interventions
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Milieu Therapy
Basic Assumptions: - all patients have strengths as well as limitations - every interaction is an opportunity for therapeutic intervention - patients participate in making decisions and solving problems on the units - personal responsibility is encouraged - peer pressure used to give feedback - inappropriate behaviors processed - no restrictions or punishments: use group discussion first
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Safe Practice
- knowledge of medication purpose, dosage range, primary side effects - self awareness: insight into how individual communication is affecting patient - therapeutic communication to help patient identify thoughts and feelings - collaboration with interdisciplinary team to maintain safety - requires knowledge of mental health disorders, how to assess mental status and identify mental status changes
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Legal guidelines: Two categories of admission
- voluntary status | - involuntary status
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Involuntary Admission
- after initial 72 hrs, client may be asked to sign voluntary admission to further tx/stabilization - judicial process required to extend original baker act
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Who can initiate Baker Act in Florida?
- any physician - psychiatrist - psychologist - psych ARNP - LCSW/LMHC - Police offices - court order, ex-parte order
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Ethical considerations for baker act
- the right to treatment - confidentiality - only those involved in client's care should have access to the information divulged by the client
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Confidentiality
client needs to know that his/her info will be shared with the tx team and that there are limits to what can be kept secret -beware of agreeing to keep info secret
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Duty to Warn
- Tarasoff Case | - failure to warn a potential victim that he/she is in danger
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Rights of the Mentally Ill
- clients have all the civil rights of any citizen, except the right to leave the hospital in the care of involuntary commitment - can refuse treatment (except under life threatening conditions or emergency tx orders)
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Any restrictions of the client's freedom....
must be made by MDs or with a court order with a verifiable, documented reason
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Restraints
direct application of physical force to a person without his/her permission to restrict freedom of movement. Force can be human, mechanical or a combo
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Restraints used only to...
prevent injury to client or someone else
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Reason for restraints...
must be justified and documented and have physician order
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Strict guidelines for use are...
spelled out in policies and procedures
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If restraints not documented....
agency can lose license and nurse sued for battery
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Seclusion
involuntary confinement of a person in a specially constructed, locked room (usually has a window or camera for visual monitoring) -provides decreased stimulation, protecting of others from the client, prevention of property destruction, and privacy for the client
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Goal to seclusion
give the client the opportunity to regain physical and emotional self-control -must be closely monitored
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Nurse's documentation for seclusion
-must justify seclusion as well we document the occurence
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Release from seclusion
-as soon as possible, the client is informed of the behavioral criteria for release from seclusion
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Informed consent
-client must receive enough information to make a decision about treatment and to communicate that decision to others
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Least Restrictive Environment
-clients have the right to treatment in the least restrictive environment that is appropriate for their needs while maintaining their safety and that of others
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EBP for mental health
- 6 core strategies to reduce use of seclusion and restraints - leadership toward organizational change - use of data to inform practice - workforce development - use of S/R reduction tools - consumer roles in inpatient settings - debriefing techniques

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