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Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
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A mental disorder is a behavioral or psychological syndrome that causes significant distress, impaired functioning, or risk of harm.
Common types include anxiety disorders, mood disorders (e.g. depression), schizophrenia, eating disorders, trauma-related disorders, and substance abuse disorders.
Therapeutic communication refers to the planned use of verbal and non-verbal techniques to facilitate a positive nurse-patient relationship and treatment outcomes.
Key elements include active listening, displaying empathy, asking open-ended questions, providing emotional support, avoiding criticism, and establishing trust.
Techniques include reflecting, restating, clarifying, summarizing, focusing, confronting, exploring feelings, silence, and self-disclosure.
The purpose is to build rapport, gather assessment data, provide emotional support, facilitate patient understanding and cooperation, and promote behavior change.
Active listening involves focusing fully on the patient, observing non-verbal cues, reflecting back content and feelings, and avoiding distractions.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. It involves validating a patient's emotions without judging them.
Techniques to avoid include asking leading questions, providing false reassurance, changing the subject abruptly, criticizing, and giving advice prematurely.
Silence can be therapeutic by giving the patient time to think, process information, and express emotions without interruption.