← Psych Mental Health Test
4 Written Questions
4 Multiple Choice Questions
- first time the nurse and patient meet
Establish: trust, parameters of relationship (nurse's role and responsibilities of both), formal and informal contract (time, place, date, duration), confidentiality, mutual goals, discuss termination
Patient problems are articulated and mutually agreed upon goals are established - Implementation
- Problem solving
- Support
- Action Plans
*The client collaborates with the nurse and takes personal risks to make desired changes and take action in his/her life - the nurse displaces feelings onto the client related to others in the nurse's past
- Privacy
Autonomy
Safety
Group-Well being
Restrictiveness
Program Structure
Social Climate
4 True/False Questions
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Dual Diagnosis → Axis I: all mental health diagnosis except for those found in Axis II
Axis II: any personality disorder diagnosis and mental retardation
Axis III: any general medical diagnosis, such as asthma
Axis IV: pertinent psychosocial problems and problems that may affect diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of mental disorders
Axis V: global assessment of functioning (GAF) an assessment of present and past-year functioning that rates the clients level of functioning in the areas of work performance, social abilities, and psychological ability on a scale of 1 to 100 -
Stage I → Building the therapeutic working relationship through:
- Empathy- relating to patient
- Respect
- Genuineness
-Concreteness
* In this stage, the client explores him/herself -
Mental Status Examination → Affect
Physical Appearance
Behavior- mood and affect
Cognitive and intellectual abilities- orientation to time and place, remote, and recent memory, level of knowledge, ability to calculate (count back in 7s), abstract thinking, judgement, and rate and volume of speech -
Stage II → Deeper exploration through:
- Additive Empathy
- Self disclosure (typically only helpful with abused & raped
- Feedback
- Confrontation
- Immediacy- "what I need from you right now"
*The client learns to listen non-defensively and attempts to understand his/her own personal patterns
Regenerate Test