NSG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychiatric And Mental Health Nursing, Mental Disorder, Self-Care
2 Apr 2018
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Empathy: self care to avoid burnout, self-knowledge to engage assertively, definitions of mental health and mental illness, mh: a state of well being, cope with stresses of daily life. Person acts in a way that others can(cid:495)t understand what they are doing. The (cid:494)science(cid:495) of psychiatry: diagnosis using clinical judgment and the dsm criteria, treatment/management, change over time based on best evidence or knowledge known at the time, treatments/management strategies today include a combination of interventions. Mental illness continuum: mental disorders vary in terms of severity, frequency, and range of psychiatric symptoms, mental disorder absence of mental disorder. The subjective feeling of well-being can exist within health and illness, and specifically within mental health and mental disorder: mental health determinants include: individual attributes, social circumstances, and environmental factors. Risk factors: mental illness arises from a complex interaction of genetic, biological and environmental factors.
