Oakland Community College NUR 1520: Conceptual Models in Psychiatric Nursing with answers

Conceptual Models in Psychiatric Nursing



Conceptual Model Concepts defined in the model Causes of mental illness Nursing activities based on model
Psychoanalytic  All behavior has meaning Unconscious conflict  Defense mechanisms
(Freud)  Levels of consciousness  Therapeutic alliance
 Parts of the personality Focus: Past relationships  Theories help to understand adult behavior
 Therapeutic tools: r/t id, ego, superego and stages of
 free association, dream analysis,
development and levels of consciousness
transference, defense
mechanisms
 Psychosexual stages of
development ends at 21
 Long term , reconstructive




 Psychosocial stages of Patient may not fully resolve Knowledge of the tasks of each stage helps to
Psychosocial a maturational crisis better understand an individual
development
(Erikson) Patients may regress to an Understand regression during illness
 “Normal” developmental crisis
earlier developmental stages
at each stage of development
during an illness (physical or
 Stages of development continue psychiatric)
throughout the life span

Interpersonal Relationships and Specific problematic Nurse Patient Relationship
how it impacts behaviors come as a result of “Corrective emotional experience”
Interpersonal
 self-esteem previous interpersonal “Therapeutic use of self”
(Sullivan, Peplau)
 role transitions relationships Levels of anxiety and nursing actions
 anxiety
Focus: Specific interpersonal
problems



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