Introductory Flashcards
a specialized area of nursing
practice, employing theories of human behavior as its science and purposeful use of self as its art, in the diagnosis
and treatments of human response to actual or potential mental health problems (ANA)
Psychiatric Nursing
Focus of Mental Health
Well client
At risk individual
Those with early symptoms of maladjustments
The ability to see oneself as others do and fit into the culture and society where one lives.
Mental Health
a state of emotional, psychological, and
social wellness evidenced by satisfying interpersonal relationships, effective behavior and coping, positive selfconcept, and emotional stability (Videbeck, 2015).
Mental Health
Characteristics of a mentally healthy person
Positive attitude toward self
Growth
Development
Self-actualization
Integration
Autonomy
Reality perception
Environmental mastery
Factors influencing mental health
Individual
Interpersonal
Social/Cultural or Environmental
Factors influencing mental health
Person’s biological makeup, autonomy and
independence, self-esteem, capacity for growth, vitality, ability to find meaning in life, emotional resilience, sense of
belonging, reality orientation and coping or stress management abilities.
Individual
Factors influencing mental health
may include effective
communication, ability to help others, intimacy, and a balance of separateness and connectedness
Interpersonal
Factors influencing mental health
Include a sense of community, access to adequate resources, intolerance of
violence, support of diversity among people, mastery of environment, and a positive, yet realistic, view of one’s
world.
Social/Cultural or Environmental
the inability to see oneself as others do and
not having the ability to conform to the norms of the culture and society.
Mental Illness
a clinically significant behavioral
or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress or
disability or with significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom
Mental illness/disorder
Causes of mental illness/disorder
Genetics and hereditary
Stress and immunes system
Infection
GENERAL CRITERIA TO DIAGNOSE
MENTAL DISORDER
Dissatisfaction with one’s characteristics, abilities,
accomplishments.
Ineffective or unsatisfying relationship.
Dissatisfaction with one’s place in the world.
Ineffective coping with life’s events.
Lack of personal growth.
“An act establishing a national mental health policy for the purpose of enhancing the delivery of integrated mental health services, promoting and protecting
the rights of persons utilizing psychiatric, neurologic and psychosocial health services, appropriating funds. Therefore, and for other purposes. Signed by Duterte on June 2018.
RA 11036
an act instituting Universal Health Care for all Filipinos, prescribing reforms in the health care system, and appropriating funds therefore for other purposes.
RA 11223, Feb 2019 signed by Duterte
