Mental Health Test #1 Study Guide
Definitions:
Recovery Model: Focus shifts from one of illness and disease to an emphasis on
rehabilitation and recovery.
● Treats patients as partners and empowers them to have a say in their care.
● Consumer and family driven
● Increases their ability to cope, facilitate recovery, and build resilience.
Advocacy: An ethical role in nursing.
● A patient advocate:
○ Speaks up for another’s cause
○ Helps another by defending and comforting
○ Can be a lawyer who is often viewed as an advocate for his or her clients
● Advocacy in nursing includes:
○ Committing to a patient’s health
○ Alleviating suffering
○ Promoting a peaceful, comfortable, and dignified death
● Nurses advocate for patients when they:
○ Advise patients of their rights
○ Provide accurate and current information
Attending: Refers to an intensity of presence, being there for and in tune with the
patient.
Resilience: The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.
Stigma: Collection of negative attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors that influence
the individual and general public.
Milieu therapy: Uses the total environment to create a healthy healing environment.
● People, setting, structure, and emotional climate are all important to healing.
Cognitive therapy: Helping patients identify negative thought patterns.
● It is a popular and commonly used effective and well-researched therapeutic tool.
It is based on both cognitive and behavioral theory and seeks to modify negative
thoughts that lead to dysfunctional emotions and actions.
● Tests distorted beliefs, and changes way of thinking. Reduces symptoms.
Example: people viewing a glass half empty or half full.
Definitions:
Recovery Model: Focus shifts from one of illness and disease to an emphasis on
rehabilitation and recovery.
● Treats patients as partners and empowers them to have a say in their care.
● Consumer and family driven
● Increases their ability to cope, facilitate recovery, and build resilience.
Advocacy: An ethical role in nursing.
● A patient advocate:
○ Speaks up for another’s cause
○ Helps another by defending and comforting
○ Can be a lawyer who is often viewed as an advocate for his or her clients
● Advocacy in nursing includes:
○ Committing to a patient’s health
○ Alleviating suffering
○ Promoting a peaceful, comfortable, and dignified death
● Nurses advocate for patients when they:
○ Advise patients of their rights
○ Provide accurate and current information
Attending: Refers to an intensity of presence, being there for and in tune with the
patient.
Resilience: The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.
Stigma: Collection of negative attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors that influence
the individual and general public.
Milieu therapy: Uses the total environment to create a healthy healing environment.
● People, setting, structure, and emotional climate are all important to healing.
Cognitive therapy: Helping patients identify negative thought patterns.
● It is a popular and commonly used effective and well-researched therapeutic tool.
It is based on both cognitive and behavioral theory and seeks to modify negative
thoughts that lead to dysfunctional emotions and actions.
● Tests distorted beliefs, and changes way of thinking. Reduces symptoms.
Example: people viewing a glass half empty or half full.
