Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in by Mary C. Townsend DSN PMHCNS-BC

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By Mary C. Townsend DSN PMHCNS-BC

Rely at the targeted voice and devoted imaginative and prescient of Mary C. Townsend to supply the main sincerely written, accomplished textual content for psychiatric psychological health and wellbeing nursing. Its evidence-based, holistic method of nursing perform makes a speciality of either organic and behavioral components.

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UNDOING Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that one finds intolerable. Joe is nervous about his new job and yells at his wife. On his way home he stops and buys her some flowers. 4092_Ch02_012-026 24/07/14 5:20 PM Page 20 20 UNIT 1 ■ Basic Concepts in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing 2. Denial is the refusal to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it. EXAMPLES: (a) A woman has been told by her family doctor that she has a lump in her breast.

Distortion, as well as the capacity for empathy and social sensitivity—a respect and concern for the wants and needs of others. 6. Environmental Mastery. This indicator suggests that the individual has achieved a satisfactory role within the group, society, or environment. It suggests that he or she is able to love and accept the love of others. When faced with life situations, the individual is able to strategize, make decisions, change, adjust, and adapt. Life offers satisfaction to the individual who has achieved environmental mastery.

Suppression is the voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one’s awareness. ” (b) A young woman who is depressed about a pending divorce proceeding tells the nurse, “I just don’t want to talk about the divorce. ” 15. Undoing is the act of symbolically negating or canceling out a previous action or experience that one finds intolerable. ” (b) A man who is anxious about giving a presentation at work yells at his wife during breakfast. He stops on his way home from work that evening to buy her a dozen red roses.

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