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mental health - Answer a state of well-being in which each individual is able to realize his or
her own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively and fruitfully, and
make a contribution to the community
mental illness - Answer any mental disorders with definable diagnosis; they have a significant
dysfunction in mental functioning (developmental, biological, physiological, social, spiritual),
and are culturally defined
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5) - Answer the
official guideline for diagnosing psychiatric disorders
resilience - Answer a characteristic of mental health that aids people to recognize stressors
and negative emotions, deal with them, and learn from the experience
epidemiology - Answer the quantitative study of the distribution of mental disorders in
human populations (identification of high risk groups, incidence, prevalence)
incidence - Answer the number of new cases of mental disorders in a healthy population
within a given period of time
prevalence - Answer the total number of cases, new and existing, in a given population
during a specific period of time, regardless of when the subjects became ill
comorbid condition - Answer having more than one mental disorder at a time
clinical epidemiology - Answer a broad field that addresses what happens after people with
illnesses are seen by clinical care providers (natural history of illness, diagnostic screening,
interventions)
evidence-informed practice - Answer care based on the collection, interpretation, and
integration of valid, important, and applicable patient-reported, clinician-observed, and
,the nursing outcomes classification (NOC) - Answer provides a comprehensive list of
standardized outcomes, definitions, and measures to describe client outcomes influenced by
nursing practice
nursing interventions classification (NIC) - Answer a tool used to standardize, define, and
measure nursing care
electronic health care - Answer health care services provided from a distance through the
internet
asylums - Answer retreats from society designed with the hope that, with early intervention
and several months of rest, people with mental illnesses could be cured
Philippe Pinel - Answer an eighteenth-century reformer who, along with William Tuke,
introduced the moral treatment era of psychiatry, which attempted to focus on providing
peaceful, nurturing environments for people with mental illness
William Tuke - Answer an eighteenth-century reformer who, along with Phillipe Pinel,
introduced the moral treatment era of psychiatry, which attempted to focus on providing
peaceful, nurturing environments for people with mental illness
moral treatment - Answer social and psychological approaches to treatment that included
retreats from society, calm environments, and several months of rest
custodial care - Answer assistance with performing the basic daily necessities of life, such as
dressing, eating, using the toilet, walking, and so on
Dorothea Dix - Answer a passionate social reformer, she advocated for improved treatment
and public care of people with mental illness and was influential in lobbying for the first public
mental hospital in the United States and for reform in institutions in Britain and Canada
Weir report - Answer a report released in 1932 by the Canadian Medical Association and the
Canadian Nurses Association; it concluded that drastic changes to nursing education programs
were needed, including the standardization of curriculum, work hours, and instructor training,
and that the care of people with mental illnesses needed to be integrated into all generalist
programs
, Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Canada - Answer an organization representing the four
Western provincial associations for registered psychiatric nurses
Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses - Answer an organization of registered nurses
across Canada who specialize in psychiatric mental health nursing; under the umbrella of the
Canadian Nurses Association and with consumer input, this organization set the standards of
practice for psychiatric mental health nursing for registered nurses
advanced-practice nursing (ADN) - Answer includes the roles of nurse practitioner and
clinical nurse specialist
stigma - Answer negative attitudes or behaviours toward a person or group based on a belief
that the possess negative traits
diathesis stress model - Answer the most widely accepted explanation for mental illness, and
can include severe diathesis (big stressors) and minor diathesis (little stressors)
theories that inform mental health practice - Answer include psychoanalytic (freud, erikson),
interpersonal (sullivan, peplau), behavioural (pavlov, watson, skinner), cognitive (beck, ellis,
linehan), humanistic (maslow), biological, and social determinants
psychoanalytic theory (Freud) - Answer explores the id, ego, and superego; psychosexual
stages of development; and classical psychoanalysis (transference - emotions and thoughts
making pt hooked on you, countertransference - feelings going back from you to pt)
transference - Answer the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other
relationships
countertransference - Answer the nurse's behavioral and emotional response to the client
psychodynamic theory (Erikson) - Answer includes the eight stages of development
biological theory - Answer focuses on neurological, chemical, biological, and genetic
interactions; how the body and brain interact to create emotions, memories, and perceptual
experiences; and considers social, environmental, cultural, economic and spiritual spheres