NURSING 2488 Final Exam Key concepts _1_MH study guide

5 A/ of integrating best evidence into clinical practices include: Asking, acquiring, appraising, applying, assessing Mental health recovery model: is one of helping people w/ psychiatric disabilities effectively manage their symptoms, reduce psychosocial disability, and find a meaningful life in community of their choosing. Introduction in Psychiatric Nursing Basic Brain Anatomy- what do the different part of brain control? Hypothalamus? Neurons/ synapse- pg. 51  Hypothalamus: physiological functions (temp regulation, thirst, hunger, sleep, mood, sex drive, and the release of other hormones w/in the body). Houses the pituitary gland.  Neurons: (located in spinal cord) fiber projects outside the spinal cord to directly or indirectly control effector organs, mainly muscles and glands.  Synapse: permits a neuron to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron. Milieu therapy: Creating a SAFE, structured inpt/outpt setting where the mentally ill can test new behaviors and coping mechanisms w/ others.  Climate is essential to healing: paint color, relaxed environments are conducive to the healing process  Florence Nightingale believe that the environment helps heal Describe the difference between mental health and mental illness  Mental health: person’s condition w/ regard to their psychological and emotional well-being  Mental illness: wide range of mental health conditions – disorders that affect your mood, thinking, and behavior. Ex: depression, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, etc. Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs  Physiological needs- most basic needs (food, oxygen, water, sleep)  Safety needs- security, protection, freedom of fear, anxiety & chaos.  Belongingness and love needs- intimate relationships, love, affection, & belonging. Maslow stresses the importance of having a family and a home and being part of an identifiable group. NUR 2488 Mental Health Nursing Final Exam Key Concepts  Esteem needs- high self-regard; need to feel confident, valued & valuable.  Self-actualization- hard-wired to be everything we are capable of becoming  Self-transcendence- “seeks to further a cause beyond the self and to experience a communion beyond the boundaries of the self through peak experiences” Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations  Using the interpersonal environment as a therapeutic tool for healing and in reduction of anxiety. Sitting quietly beside a new father who has recently lost his job and attempted suicide and does not want to talk. Freud- what did he contribute to psychiatric setting- unconscious thoughts  Considered the “father of psychiatry.” His work was based on psychoanalytic theory, in which Freud claims that most psychological disturbances are the result of early trauma or incidents that are often not remembered or recognized. The assumption is made that in healthy individuals, the ego is able to realistically evaluate situations, limit the id’s primitive impulses, and keep the superego from becoming too rigid and obsessive. o ID - the primitive, pleasure-seeking part (according to Freud, predominantly sexual pleasure) of our personalities that lurks in the unconscious mind. o EGO - our sense of self and acts as an intermediary between the id and the world by using ego defense mechanisms, such as repression, denial, and rationalization o SUPEREGO – assigned to those processes that Freud referred to as our conscience (our sense of what is right