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L1: Introduction to Basic Concepts in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

• Mental health is a state of well-being where individuals realize their potential, cope with normal stresses, work productively, and contribute to their community.
• Mental illness comprises disorders affecting mood, thinking, and behavior, associated with personal distress and impaired functioning, as defined by the WHO.
• Characteristics of good mental health include emotional stability, high self-esteem, effective coping strategies, and positive relationships.
• Characteristics of mental illness involve changes in thinking, perception, feeling, judgment, and behavior that deviate from previous personality or community norms.

Historical Perspectives of Mental Health

• In ancient times, mental illness were seen as supernatural, with treatments involving punishment.
• During the Middle Ages, there was a shift toward providing care and responsibility for the mentally ill.
• In the 18th-19th centuries, moral treatment emerged, associated with figures such as Pinel and Dix.
• The 20th century onward brought psychotropic medications, deinstitutionalization, and patient-centered care.

Factors Influencing Mental Health

• Biological factors include genetics, chromosomal mutations, endocrine abnormalities, and abnormal brain structure.
• Psychological factors include early development, personality traits, poor parenting, childhood trauma, and maternal emotional deprivation.
• Sociocultural factors include disturbed peer relationships, stressful environments, poverty, lack of resources, discrimination, gender bias, cultural beliefs, and inadequate parenting.

Stress Adaptation Model (Hans Selye's GAS Model)

• Alarm stage involves the fight or flight response.
• Resistance stage involves the body's attempts to return to homeostasis.
• Exhaustion stage involves prolonged stress leading to depletion of resources and potential illness.

Adaptation

• Problem-focused coping involves addressing stressors directly.
• Emotion-focused coping involves managing emotional responses.
• Adaptive responses include healthy coping mechanisms like relaxation and social support.
• Maladaptive responses include unhealthy behaviors like substance abuse and aggression.

L2: Foundations for Psychiatric Nursing

• Concepts of psychophysiology relates brain function to mental health.

Brain Areas in Psychiatric Conditions

• The prefrontal cortex impacts decision-making, and is linked to schizophrenia and ADHD.
• The limbic system (amygdala and hippocampus) impacts emotion and memory, and is linked to PTSD and mood disorders.
• The basal ganglia impacts movement control, and is linked to OCD.

Neurotransmitters in Mental Health

• Serotonin regulates mood; low levels are associated with depression.
• Dopamine regulates pleasure and motivation; high levels are associated with schizophrenia, while low levels are associated with Parkinson's.
• GABA has a calming effect; low levels are associated with anxiety disorders.
• Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to reorganize itself through learning and therapy.
• The activation of the HPA axis triggers cortisol release.
• Chronic stress effects leads to immune dysfunction, depression, and anxiety.

Biopsychosocial Model of Mental Health

• Biological factors include genetics and brain chemistry.
• Psychological factors include coping skills and personality.
• Social Factors include family, culture, and environment.
• Genetics and Epigenetics entails genetic risks Family history of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
• Epigenetics entails stress and trauma affecting gene expression.
• Mind-body connection is explained through psychophysiological feedback where mental states affect physical health.
• Mindfulness and relaxation is effective ways of reducing stress and improving coping.

Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory

• The id is the primitive part of personality, driven by instincts and desires (pleasure principle).
• The egois the rational self that balances the id and superego (reality principle).
• The superego is the moral conscience that enforces social norms (morality principle).

Psychosexual Stages of Development

• Oral Stage (0-1 year) focuses on sucking, which can lead to habits like smoking.
• Anal Stage (1-3 years) focuses on control, linked to OCD or rebellious behavior.
• Phallic Stage (3-6 years) involves identification with same-sex parents.
• Latency Stage (6-puberty) involves developing social and intellectual skills.
• Genital Stage (puberty-adulthood) involves forming sexual maturity and relationships.

Defense Mechanisms

• Repression is blocking unwanted thoughts.
• Denial is refusing to accept reality.
• Projection is attributing one's feelings to others.
• Displacement is redirecting emotions onto another object.

Erikson's Psychosocial Theory

• Trust vs. Mistrust (0-1 year) involves developing a sense of security.
• Autonomy vs. Shame (1-3 years) involves developing independence.
• Initiative vs. Guilt (3-6 years) involves developing confidence in decision-making.
• Industry vs. Inferiority (6-12 years) involves developing competence in skills.
• Identity vs. Role Confusion (12-18 years) a sense of self is developing.
• Intimacy vs. Isolation (Young adulthood) involves developing close relationships.
• Generativity vs. Stagnation (Middle adulthood) involves contributing to society.
• Integrity vs. Despair (Late adulthood) involves reflecting on life with satisfaction or regret.

Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory

• Sensorimotor Stage (0-2 years) learning through senses and movement, object permanence is developing.
• Preoperational Stage (2-7 years) egocentric thinking, using symbols and imagination.
• Concrete Operational Stage (7-11 years) entails logical thinking about concrete concepts, understanding conservation.
• Formal Operational Stage (12+ years) entails abstract thinking, problem-solving, moral reasoning.

Carl Rogers Humanistic Theory

• Self-actualization entails the innate drive to fulfill one's potential.
• Self-concept entails how a person views themselves (can be positive or negative).
• Unconditional positive regard entails accepting and valuing individuals without judgement.

Karen Horney's Neo-Freudian Theory

• Basic anxiety entails a deep sense of helplessness and isolation due to childhood experiences.
• Neurotic needs entails excessive behaviors people adopt to cope with anxiety seeking approval, or needing power.

John Bowlby's Attachment Theory

• Secure attachment leads to healthy relationships
• Anxious attachment leads to clinginess and fear of abandonment.
• Avoidant attachment leads to emotional distance.
• Disorganized attachment leads to confusion and fear in relationships.

L3: Ethical and Legal Issues in Psychiatric Nursing

• Autonomy means respecting patients' rights to make informed decisions.
• Beneficence means acting in the best interest of the patient.
• Non-maleficence means avoiding or minimizing harm to patients.
• Justice means ensuring fair treatment and access to mental health services.
• Fidelity means maintaining trust and confidentiality in patient care.

Common Ethical Dilemmas

• Involuntary admission involves a choice to balance patient autonomy vs. need for treatment.
• Use of restraints triggers ethical concerns in using restraints only as a last resort.
• Duty to warn is balancing reporting threats while protecting privacy.
• End-of-life decisions entail ethical concerns in psychiatric patients refusing life-saving treatments.

Legal Aspects of Psychiatric Nursing

• Mental health acts and regulations define laws on involuntary commitment and patient rights.
• Patients have a right to refuse treatment, dignity, and privacy in psychiatric care.
• Confidentiality and privacy involves protecting patient data while meeting legal reporting requirements.
• Malpractice and negligence can result in in legal consequences of medication errors, inappropriate restraint use, or neglect.
• Psychiatric advance directives are legal documents where patients specify future mental health care preferences when they lose decision-making capacity.

Cultural Considerations in Psychiatric Nursing

• This entails being aware of different cultural perceptions of mental illness.
• This entails overcoming cultural barriers to care (language, stigma, mistrust).
• This comprises culturally sensitive interventions (traditional healing, and community involvement).

Spiritual Considerations in Mental Health Care

• Spirituality can be a coping mechanism.
• One must Identify and respect a patient's spiritual beliefs.
• Ensure non-coercive spiritual support.

Integration of Cultural & Spiritual Competence

• This needs a holistic mental health care approach.
• Respect cultural and religious values in treatment planning.
• Involve family and community resources where appropriate.

L4: Therapeutic Approaches in Psychiatric Nursing Care

• Building a trusting relationship is the foundation of psychiatric nursing, involving empathy, consistency, and boundary maintenance.

Phases of Nurse-Patient Relationship

• Orientation phase involves introduction, establishing trust, and setting expectations.
• Working phase involves addressing patient needs and implementing interventions.
• Termination phase involves preparing for discharge and reflecting on progress.

Nurse's Role in Relationship Development

• Nurses provide consistent emotional support, establish professional boundaries, and maintain patient confidentiality,
• Therapeutic factors in group therapy entails universality that others share similar struggles.
• Altruism entails helping others improves self-esteem.
• Instillation of hope entails fostering motivation and seeking others improves.

Nurse's Role in Therapeutic Groups

• This comprises facilitation (leading/ co-leading group), monitoring (ensuring group members remain engaged), conflict resolution, and creating a safe space to encourage open discussion.
• Challenges in therapeutic Groups deals with managing group dynamics to ensure participation, dominating personalities and respecting diverse backgrounds as well as privacy.

Therapeutic Communication

• It is a purposeful, goal-directed communication used to promote mental well-being.
• Key techniques in therapeutic communication entails active listening (demonstrating attention and interest), open-ended questions (Encouraging patients to elaborate) and Reflection to enhance self awareness.
• Clarification prevents misunderstandings as is the role of silence to allow processing of thoughts.
• The nurses role is to assess patient needs and educate patients and families, and Facilitate emotional expression in a safe environment.
• Key strategies includes verbal/ non-verbal expressions like body contact.
• Empathy versus sympathy to understand rather than pity situations.
• Ensuring matching communication

Therapeutic Groups

• These groups entails structured interventions led by a therapist or nurse to provide support.
• Psycho-educational Groups Teach patients about their condition and coping strategies.
• Support group provides emotional support.
• Cognitive- Behavioral groups help change negative thinking patterns, and skills to manage behaviours.
• Key Principles of Therapeutic Groups entails Dynamics in Roles for Therapists that enables shared experiences to support each other.
• Key factors is universality and hope that seeing others improves and are motivated.
• Ensuring Safe spaces, Monitor relationships in groups maintain engagements.

L5 - Mental Health Intervention with Families

• To assesses Family Dynamics in Psychiatric Care by determining relationship with family structures, assessments Tools involving interactions
• Interventions are related to diagnosis of a chronic Illness
• Implementations Involve open Communication.
• Education in sessions.
• To manage daily stress

L6: Milieu Therapy

• Milieu therapy is a treatment modality that involves the structured use of the physical and social environment to support emotional, psychological, and behavioral well-being in psychiatric patients also ensuring their physical, emotional and safety by monitoring their schedules.
• Its Goals include enhancing conflict resolution, self-discipline and promoting social skills and independent living and encouraging and motivating them in real-life scenarios
• This builds a therapeutic communication that enhances the patient progress in emotional regulation, rules interactions where nurses and patients the assess the therapy. _ Assessments is made for relapse and independent living.
• Crisis interventions entail evaluating intervention that requires safety planning using de-escalation techniques and therapeutic communication.

L7: Assertiveness Training

• Assertiveness is a communication style that expresses thoughts, feelings, and needs directly, honestly, and respectfully.
• It is clear, respectful, and increases self-confidence by being direct for healthy relationships to show opinions and low state by developing with good listening skills.

Self Esteem

• Is how individuals view and value themselves.
• Influencing the mental health and confidence abilities to improve thinking and managing skills as is used in the cognitive environment and family to achieve goals boost the self esteem.
• As strong self esteem can avoid set back

Management

• Relaxation Techniques is progressive for stress by monitoring the response with listening skill as well as anger learning

L8: The Suicidal client Assessment entails

• Evaluating the crisis of mental health – A risk of disturbance in death – Interventions such as safety plan by encouraging behaviour with cognitive therapy

L9: Psychopharmacology Principles of Basic

• Action drugs such as increasing neurotransmitters by taking with food – Managing schizophrenia – Managing behaviour with ethics

L10: Electroconvulsive

Evaluation

– Assess the patient by enforcing treatment – Ensure the equipments – Assess patient to explain risks.

L11: Alters in social adaption

– Aids such as social support will support disorders – Disorders can be treated by implementing CBT

L13: Mood disorders

• Can occur when there is lack of mental health – Can be tested.
• Can occur with various psychological factors.

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