NURS 1730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Problem Gambling, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Panic Disorder
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Week Eight: March 5 - 9, 2018
Introduction to Nursing II
Promoting Mental Health in Aging
Learning Goals:
-Define and compare mental health & mental illnesses
-Explore two prevalent mental health disorders in the aging: Anxiety, Depression
-Discuss nursing care of clients with alterations in mental health
-Describe health promotion strategies for mental health, including advance care planning
Palliative Performance Scale (PPS)
Five Easy Steps to an Advanced Care Plan
1. Think
2. Learn – learning about diseases, family history, what you’re likely to die from .
3. Talk – sitting and having a conversation with people in your life, knowing what future
could hold, what you do and don’t what (ie. DNR, type of funeral)
4. Decide – making decisions about it.
5. Record
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What is Mental Health?
- A state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope
with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make
a contribution to her or his community (WHO)
- A mentally healthy person is one who accepts the aging self as an active being,
engaging available strengths to compensate for weaknesses in order to create personal
meaning, maintain maximum autonomy by mastering the environment, and sustain
positive relationships with others (QUALLS)
- According to Erikson et al (1986), healthy mental adult adaptation includes autonomy,
intimacy, integrity, and generativity
Mental Disorders
- A diagnosable mental illness
- A health condition “characterized by alterations in a variety of factors that include mood
and affect, behavior, and thinking and cognition. The disorders are associated with
various degrees of distress and impaired functioning”
Important
Can have varying degrees of mental health, regardless of whether or not a person has⇒
a mental illness
Depends upon stress and strain response⇒
Stressors
- Developmental transitions
- Life Events
- Physical Illness
- Cognitive Impairment
Must assess coping respose⇒
Common Mental Health Disorders
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Dementia
- Mood Disorders
- Addiction
- Substance Dependence
Cultural and Ethnic Disparities
- Lack of knowledge and awareness of cultural differences about meaning of mental
health
- Differences in the way concerns may present
- Lack of culturally competent mental health treatment
- Limited research
Stigmatization: What is it?
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Document Summary
Define and compare mental health & mental illnesses. Explore two prevalent mental health disorders in the aging: anxiety, depression. Discuss nursing care of clients with alterations in mental health. Describe health promotion strategies for mental health, including advance care planning. According to erikson et al (1986), healthy mental adult adaptation includes autonomy, intimacy, integrity, and generativity. A health condition characterized by alterations in a variety of factors that include mood and affect, behavior, and thinking and cognition. The disorders are associated with various degrees of distress and impaired functioning . Can have varying degrees of mental health, regardless of whether or not a person has a mental illness. Lack of knowledge and awareness of cultural differences about meaning of mental health. Differences in the way concerns may present. Extreme social disapproval of personal characteristics or beliefs that are perceived to be against the cultural norm. A physical form of deformity of being different .
