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NR605 PMHNP Course Overview – Psychiatric Diagnosis & Clinical Management Study Guide

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Ace the NR605 PMHNP course with this comprehensive study guide. Covers psychiatric diagnosis, clinical management strategies, and key concepts to help Nurse Practitioner students excel in psychiatric practice and coursework.

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NR605 PMHNP Course Overview –
Psychiatric Diagnosis & Clinical
Management Study Guide




Humanistic existential approach to psychotherapy - ANSWER ✔---foundational to psychiatric mental
health, nursing

Central tenants of holism

Self actualization

Therapeutic alliance



Supportive psychotherapy is used to have clients - ANSWER ✔---Who are experiencing emotional
distress or problems in living



Supportive psychotherapy is appropriate for clients experiencing - ANSWER ✔---Stressful situations,
including clients with psychotic personality organization. Those were the preoccupied or overly
emotional attachment style and those with immature defenses.



The goals of supportive therapy include - ANSWER ✔---Problem solving

Management of feelings and life stressors

Symptom relief

,Sessions are less frequent lemon, psychoanalysis



Supportive therapy is used for - ANSWER ✔---Stabilization

Resource building

Anxiety reduction

Problem solving



Techniques used supportive therapy include - ANSWER ✔---PEER

Providing comfort

Empathetic, listening

Encouragement

Reassurance

SUPPORTIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CLIENT EXPRESSED THEMSELVES
AN accepting ENVIRONMENT



Psycho analysis is commonly used for which type of patients - ANSWER ✔---Patience with anxiety

OCD

Depressive disorders

Personality disorders

Sexual dysfunction may be helpful for clients whose personality traits are interfering in their
relationships



Goals of psychoanalysis include - ANSWER ✔---Development of deeper understanding of self, and
desire to create change



Clients who are likely to benefit from psycho analysis include - ANSWER ✔---Reality oriented clients
with mature defenses, and a strong sense of self and clients with neurotic to healthy personality
organization



Techniques with psycho analysis include - ANSWER ✔---WRRITF

, Working through

Recollection

Repetition

Interpretation

TrANSWERference

Free association



To be successful, the client should be able to - ANSWER ✔---Think of distract and be self motivated



Contraindications to psychoanalysis are - ANSWER ✔---Clients who are not motivated

Those who have poor impulse control

Clients who are concrete thinkers

And those amid major and physical or emotional crisis



Psychoanalysis tends to be more intense than other forms of psychotherapy, in terms of -
ANSWER ✔---The frequency of sessions, and the intense nature of the trANSWERference that occurs



Psychoanalysis typically involves several sessions per week over several years talk therapy is
individualized the techniques applied by the psychoanalyst are - ANSWER ✔---Specific to the client
and context



recollection

Therapeutic technique - ANSWER ✔---Reconstructing the memory of past events



Repetition

Therapeutic technique - ANSWER ✔---Using trANSWERference to replay emotions and interactions
in a safe place



free association

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