Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

CURRENT THEORIES AND PRACTICE
Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
1. Mental Health and Mental Illness - Answer (click here)
2. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Historical Perspectives of the Treatment of Mental Illness - Answer (click
here)
4. Mental Illness in the 21st Century - Answer (click here)
5. Psychiatric Nursing Practice - Answer (click here)
6. Student Concerns - Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing -
Answer (click here)

Neurobiologic Theories and Psychopharmacology

1. Neurobiologic Theories and Psychopharmacology - Answer (click here)
2. The Nervous System and How It Works - Answer (click here)
3. Central Nervous System - Answer (click here)
4. Neurotransmitters - Answer (click here)
5. Brain Imaging Techniques - Answer (click here)
6. Types of Brain Imaging Techniques - Answer (click here)
7. Limitations of Brain Imaging Techniques - Answer (click here)
8. Neurobiologic Causes of Mental Illness - Answer (click here)
9. The Nurse’s Role in Research and Education - Answer (click here)
10. Psychopharmacology - Answer (click here)
11. Principles That Guide Pharmacologic Treatment - Answer (click here)
12. Antipsychotic Drugs - Psychopharmacology - Answer (click here)
13. Mechanism of Action - Psychopharmacology - Answer (click here)
14. Side Effects - Psychopharmacology - Answer (click here)
15. Client Teaching - Psychopharmacology - Answer (click here)
16. Antidepressant Drugs - Psychopharmacology - Answer (click here)
17. Mood-Stabilizing Drugs - Psychopharmacology - Answer (click here)
18. Antianxiety Drugs (Anxiolytics) - Psychopharmacology - Answer (click
here)
19. Stimulants - Psychopharmacology - Answer (click here)
20. Disulfiram (Antabuse) - Answer (click here)
21. Cultural Considerations - Answer (click here)

Psychosocial Theories and Therapy

1. Psychosocial Theories - Answer (click here)
2. Psychoanalytic Theories - Answer (click here)
3. Developmental Theories - Answer (click here)
4. Interpersonal Theories - Answer (click here)
5. Humanistic Theories - Answer (click here)
6. Behavioral Theories - Answer (click here)
7. Existential Theories - Answer (click here)
8. Crisis Intervention - Psychosocial Theories and Therapy - Answer (click
here)
9. Cultural Considerations - Psychosocial Theories and Therapy - Answer
(click here)
10. Benefits of Community Mental Health Treatment - Answer (click here)
11. Individual Psychotherapy - Answer (click here)
12. Groups - Treatment Modalities - Answer (click here)
13. Complementary and Alternative Therapies - Answer (click here)
14. Psychiatric Rehabilitation - Answer (click here)
15. The Nurse and Psychosocial Interventions - Answer (click here)

Treatment Settings and Therapeutic Programs

1. Treatment Settings and Therapeutic Programs - Answer (click here)
2. Inpatient Hospital Treatment - Answer (click here)
3. Partial Hospitalization Programs - Answer (click here)
4. Residential Settings - Answer (click here)
5. Transitional Care - Answer (click here)
6. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Programs - Answer (click here)
7. Clubhouse Model - Answer (click here)
8. Assertive Community Treatment (1973) - Answer (click here)
9. Special Populations of Clients with Mental Illness - Answer (click here)
10. Interdisciplinary Team - Answer (click here)
11. Psychosocial Nursing in Public Health and Home Care - Answer (click here)

BUILDING THE NURSE CLIENT RELATIONSHIP

Therapeutic Relationships
1. Components of a Therapeutic Relationship - Answer (click here)
2. Types of Relationships - Answer (click here)
3. Establishing the Therapeutic Relationship - Answer (click here)
4. Avoiding Behaviors That Diminish the Therapeutic Relationship -
Answer (click here)
5. Roles of the Nurse in a Therapeutic Relationship - Answer (click here)

Therapeutic Communication
1. Therapeutic Communication - Answer (click here)
2. What Is Therapeutic Communication? - Answer (click here)
3. Verbal Communication Skills - Answer (click here)
4. Nonverbal Communication Skills - Answer (click here)
5. Understanding the Meaning of Communication - Answer (click here)
6. Understanding Context - Answer (click here)
7. Understanding Spirituality - Answer (click here)
8. Cultural Considerations - Therapeutic Communication - Answer (click here)
9. The Therapeutic Communication Session - Answer (click here)
10. How to Phrase Questions - Answer (click here)
11. Guiding the Client in Problem-Solving and Empowering the Client to
Change - Answer (click here)
12. Assertive Communication - Answer (click here)
13. Community-Based Care - Answer (click here)

Clients Response to Illness

1. Client’s Response to Illness - Answer (click here)
2. Individual Factors - Client’s Response to Illness - Answer (click here)
3. Interpersonal Factors - Client’s Response to Illness - Answer (click here)
4. Cultural Factors - Client’s Response to Illness - Answer (click here)
5. Cultural Patterns and Differences - Answer (click here)
6. Nurse's Role in Working with Clients of Various Cultures - Answer (click
here)

Assessment
1. Factors Influencing Assessment - Answer (click here)
2. How to Conduct the Interview - Answer (click here)
3. Content of the Assessment - Answer (click here)
4. Assessment of Suicide or Harm Toward Others - Answer (click here)
 5. Data Analysis - Answer (click here)

CURRENT SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CONCERNS

Legal and Ethical Issues
1. Rights of Clients and Related Issues - Answer (click here)
2. Insanity Defense - Answer (click here)
3. Nursing Liability - Answer (click here)
4. Ethical Issues - Answer (click here)

Anger Hostility and Aggression

1. Onset and Clinical Course - Answer (click here)
2. Related Disorders - Anger, Hostility, and Aggression - Answer (click here)
3. Etiology - Anger, Hostility, and Aggression - Answer (click here)
4. Cultural Considerations - Anger, Hostility, and Aggression - Answer (click
here)
5. Treatment - Anger, Hostility, and Aggression - Answer (click here)
6. Applying the Nursing Process - Anger, Hostility, and Aggression -
Answer (click here)
7. Workplace Hostility - Anger, Hostility, and Aggression - Answer (click
here)
8. Community-Based Care - Answer (click here)

Abuse and Violence

1. Clinical Picture of Abuse and Violence - Answer (click here)
2. Characteristics of Violent Families - Answer (click here)
3. Cultural Considerations - Abuse and Violence - Answer (click here)
4. Intimate Partner Violence - Answer (click here)
5. Child Abuse - Answer (click here)
6. Types of Child Abuse - Answer (click here)
7. Elder Abuse - Answer (click here)
8. Rape and Sexual Assault - Answer (click here)
9. Community Violence - Answer (click here)
10. Psychiatric Disorders Related to Abuse and Violence - Answer (click here)
11. Assessment - Application of the Nursing Process - Answer (click here)
12. Outcome Identification - Application of the Nursing Process - Answer
(click here)
13. Intervention - Application of the Nursing Process - Answer (click here)
Grief and Loss
1. Types of Losses - Answer (click here)
2. The Grieving Process - Answer (click here)
3. Theories of Grieving - Answer (click here)
4. Tasks of Grieving - Answer (click here)
5. Dimensions of Grieving - Answer (click here)
6. Cultural Considerations - Grief and Loss - Answer (click here)
7. Disenfranchised Grief - Answer (click here)
8. Complicated Grieving - Answer (click here)
9. Grief and Loss: Application of the Nursing Process - Answer (click here)
10. Assessment - Grief and Loss: Application of the Nursing Process -
Answer (click here)
11. Data Analysis and Planning - Grief and Loss: Application of the Nursing
Process - Answer (click here)
12. Outcome Identification - Grief and Loss: Application of the Nursing
Process - Answer (click here)
13. Interventions - Grief and Loss: Application of the Nursing Process -
Answer (click here)
14. Evaluation - Grief and Loss: Application of the Nursing Process - Answer
(click here)

NURSING PRACTICE FOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

Anxiety Anxiety Disorders and Stress Related Illness
1. Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-Related Illness - Answer (click here)
2. Anxiety as a Response to Stress - Answer (click here)
3. Levels of Anxiety - Answer (click here)
4. Working with Anxious Clients - Answer (click here)
5. Overview of Anxiety Disorders - Answer (click here)
6. Incidence - Answer (click here)
7. Related Disorders - Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-Related
Illness - Answer (click here)
8. Etiology - Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-Related Illness -
Answer (click here)
9. Cultural Considerations - Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-
Related Illness - Answer (click here)
10. Treatment - Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-Related Illness -
Answer (click here)
11. Elder Considerations - Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-Related
Illness - Answer (click here)
12. Community-Based Care - Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Stress-
Related Illness - Answer (click here)
13. Mental Health Promotion - Answer (click here)
14. Panic Disorder - Answer (click here)
15. Application of the Nursing Process: Panic Disorder - Answer (click here)
16. Phobias - Answer (click here)
17. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Answer (click here)
18. Application of the Nursing Process: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -
Answer (click here)
19. Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Answer (click here)
20. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - Answer (click here)
21. Acute Stress Disorder - Answer (click here)

Schizophrenia
1. Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
2. Clinical Course - Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
3. Related Disorders - Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
4. Etiology - Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
5. Cultural Considerations - Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
6. Treatment - Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
7. Application of the Nursing Process: Assessment - Schizophrenia - Answer
(click here)
8. Application of the Nursing Process: Data Analysis - Schizophrenia -
Answer (click here)
9. Application of the Nursing Process: Outcome Identification -
Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
10. Application of the Nursing Process: Intervention - Schizophrenia -
Answer (click here)
11. Application of the Nursing Process: Evaluation - Schizophrenia - Answer
(click here)
12. Elder Considerations - Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
13. Community-Based Care - Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)
14. Mental Health Promotion - Schizophrenia - Answer (click here)

Mood Disorders
1. Mood Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Categories of Mood Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Related Disorders - Mood Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Etiology - Mood Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Cultural Considerations - Mood Disorders - Answer (click here)
 6. Major Depressive Disorder - Answer (click here)
7. Application of the Nursing Process: Depression - Answer (click here)
8. Bipolar Disorder - Answer (click here)
9. Application of the Nursing Process: Bipolar Disorder - Answer (click here)
10. Suicide - Answer (click here)
11. Community-Based Care - Mood Disorders - Answer (click here)
12. Mental Health Promotion - Mood Disorders - Answer (click here)

Personality Disorders
1. Personality Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Categories of Personality Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Onset and Clinical Course - Personality Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Etiology - Personality Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Cultural Considerations - Personality Disorders - Answer (click here)
6. Treatment - Personality Disorders - Answer (click here)
7. Paranoid Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
8. Schizoid Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
9. Schizotypal Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
10. Antisocial Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
11. Application of the Nursing Process: Antisocial Personality Disorder -
Answer (click here)
12. Borderline Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
13. Application of the Nursing Process: Borderline Personality Disorder -
Answer (click here)
14. Histrionic Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
15. Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
16. Avoidant Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
17. Dependent Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
18. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
19. Depressive Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
20. Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder - Answer (click here)
21. Elder Considerations - Personality Disorders - Answer (click here)
22. Community-Based Care - Personality Disorders - Answer (click here)
23. Mental Health Promotion - Personality Disorders - Answer (click here)

Substance Abuse
1. Substance Abuse - Answer (click here)
2. Types of Substance Abuse - Answer (click here)
3. Onset and Clinical Course - Substance Abuse - Answer (click here)
 4. Etiology - Substance Abuse - Answer (click here)
5. Cultural Considerations - Substance Abuse - Answer (click here)
6. Types of Substances and Treatment - Answer (click here)
7. Treatment and Prognosis - Substance Abuse - Answer (click here)
8. Application of the Nursing Process - Substance Abuse - Answer (click here)
9. Elder Considerations - Substance Abuse - Answer (click here)
10. Community-Based Care - Substance Abuse - Answer (click here)
11. Mental Health Promotion - Substance Abuse - Answer (click here)
12. Substance Abuse in Health Professionals - Answer (click here)

Eating Disorders
1. Overview of Eating Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Categories of Eating Disorders and Related Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Etiology - Eating Disorders - Answer (click here)
4. Cultural Considerations - Eating Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Anorexia Nervosa - Answer (click here)
6. Bulimia - Eating Disorders - Answer (click here)
7. Application of the Nursing Process - Eating Disorders - Answer (click here)
8. Community-Based Care - Eating Disorders - Answer (click here)
9. Mental Health Promotion - Eating Disorders - Answer (click here)

Somatoform Disorders
1. Somatoform Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Overview of Somatoform Disorders - Answer (click here)
3. Onset and Clinical Course - Somatoform Disorder - Answer (click here)
4. Related Disorders - Somatoform Disorders - Answer (click here)
5. Etiology - Somatoform Disorders - Answer (click here)
6. Application of the Nursing Process - Somatoform Disorders - Answer
(click here)
7. Community-Based Care - Somatoform Disorders - Answer (click here)
8. Mental Health Promotion - Somatoform Disorders - Answer (click here)

Child and Adolescent Disorders

1. Child and Adolescent Disorders - Answer (click here)
2. Autistic Disorder - Answer (click here)
3. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Answer (click here)
4. Application of the Nursing Process: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder - Answer (click here)
5. Conduct Disorder - Answer (click here)
 6. Application of the Nursing Process: Conduct Disorder - Answer (click here)
7. Community-Based Care - Conduct Disorder - Answer (click here)
8. Mental Health Promotion - Conduct Disorder - Answer (click here)
9. Cognitive Disorders - Answer (click here)
10. Delirium - Answer (click here)
11. Application of the Nursing Process: Delirium - Answer (click here)
12. Community Based Care - Deliriu - Answer (click here)
13. Dementia - Answer (click here)
14. Application of the Nursing Process: Dementia - Answer (click here)
15. Community Based Care - Dementia - Answer (click here)
16. Mental Health Promotion - Dementia - Answer (click here)
17. Role of the Caregiver - Dementia - Answer (click here)
18. Related Disorders - Dementia - Answer (click here)