Mental Health Vocab Sheet

Question 1

What is affirmation?

Answer 1

A therapeutic communication technique that is used to empower client behavior and decision-makin

Question 2

What is bias?

Answer 2

An unconscious or conscious association that is founded on previous experience or influence from one’s culture.

Question 3

What is boundary blurring?

Answer 3

When the roles in a relationship become unclear.

Question 4

What is complex reflection?

Answer 4

A therapeutic communication technique where the nurse infers client emotion or thoughts in an effort to portray engagement and clarity.

Question 5

What does congruence mean?

Answer 5

When a client’s expressed mood matches their affect.

Question 6

What is countertranference?

Answer 6

The unconscious effort on behalf of the nurse to redirect their previously experienced feelings or emotions toward the client.

Question 7

What is cultural accommodation?

Answer 7

Nursing considerations that help the client adapt or negotiate with other cultures while in treatment

Question 8

What are cultural formulation interview?

Answer 8

A clinical tool developed by the American Psychiatric Association that is designed to elicit culturally relevant information on the client’s life context, social support, resources, and resilience.

Question 9

What is cultural preservations?

Answer 9

Care considerations to retain the client’s core cultural beliefs and values related to health care.

Question 10

What is cultural repatterning?

Answer 10

A direct therapeutic intervention performed by the nurse that supports the client who is changing a culturally related behavior in an effort to improve health outcomes.

Question 11

What is diversity?

Answer 11

In a nursing context, this term refers to the qualities of a client that differs from that of the nurse.

Question 12

What is engaging?

Answer 12

A process of motivational interviewing that allows the client to share their perspective on what is important in their life.

(motivational interviewing)

Question 13

What is equity?

Answer 13

In a nursing context, this term refers to ensuring that the client has equal opportunity to initiate and continue fair treatment.

Question 14

What is evoke?

Answer 14

A process of motivational interviewing that seeks to have the client express reasons for behavior change.

(helpthe client express reasons for behavior change)

Question 15

What is expert trap?

Answer 15

The act of prescribing information or advice without the consent, solicitation, or consultation of the client.

(givingadvice without being asked)

Question 16

What is focusing?

Answer 16

A process of motivational interviewing where the nurse identifies, analyzes, and offers alternatives to current behaviors.

(offers alternatives to currnet behaviors)

Question 17

What is Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model?

Answer 17

A client assessment framework designed to help nurses care for a culturally diverse population. ​​​​​​​

Question 18

What is health literacy?

Answer 18

The amount of health care knowledge a client understands and is able to return demonstrate.

Question 19

What is a Home health care manager?

Answer 19

A nursing role that promotes wellness and functioning in a client’s home as a health care setting.

Question 20

What importance, or confidence, ruler statements?

Answer 20

A statement designed to evoke motivation by focusing on the client’s strengths.
inclusion

Question 21

What is motivational interviewing?

Answer 21

A communication strategy that assists clients in developing motivation to resolve insecurities and ambivalent feelings toward behavior change.

Question 22

What is nurse client relationships?

Answer 22

A relationship between the nurse and client that is founded upon trust, respect, and professionalism.

Question 23

What is organizational culture?

Answer 23

The values, attitudes, beliefs, psychology, and experiences that influence daily operation.

Question 24

What is rapport?

Answer 24

A characteristic of a relationship when there is a mutual perception of understanding and transparency.

Question 25

What is simple reflection?

Answer 25

A therapeutic communication technique that is used to clarify client emotions or statements.

Question 26

What is SMART planning?

Answer 26

A planning technique that incorporates specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-conscious factors.

Question 27

What is SOLER?

Answer 27

An acronym for a nonverbal therapeutic communication technique that represents: square with your client, open posture, leaning forward, eye contact, and relax.

Question 28

What is SURETY?

Answer 28

An acronym for a nonverbal therapeutic communication technique that represents: sit at an angle, uncross legs and arms, relax, eye contact, touch, and your intuition.

Question 28

What is telehealth?

Answer 28

Health care services that are rendered alternatively to face-to-face client interactions.

Question 29

What is the termination phase?

Answer 29

A phase in the nurse-client relationship in which the goals established in the orientation phase have been met, and new goals are developed.

Question 30

What is the therapeutic communication?

Answer 30

A specific communication style with verbal and nonverbal techniques to facilitate the portrayal of professionalism.

Question 31

What therapeutic verbal and nonverbal communication?

Answer 31

A specific communication style with verbal and nonverbal techniques to facilitate the portrayal of professionalism.

Question 32

What is therapeutic window?

Answer 32

A hypothetical psychological state where therapeutic interventions are believed to be most beneficial.

Question 33

What is transcultural nursing theory?

Answer 33

Nursing care that considers the client’s social, spiritual, psychological, and physiological perspectives.

Question 34

What is transference?

Answer 34

The unconscious effort on behalf of the client to redirect their previously-experienced feelings or emotions toward the nurse.

Question 35

What transtheoretical model of change?

Answer 35

An integrative, biopsychosocial model to conceptualize the process of intentional behavior change.

Question 36

What is trust?

Answer 36

Believing a characteristic to be true in something or someone.

Question 37

What is the working phase?

Answer 37

A phase in the nurse-client relationship when the nurse and client have established a mutual level of trust and comfort and develop progress toward established goals.