Question 1. holistic nursing care in mental health
Question 1. Holistic Nursing Care in Mental Health
Question 2. Factors Contributing to Mental Illness
Other Biological Factors – Any imbalance in the hormonal factors affects the stability of the brain thereby inducing mental illness. Change in the hormonal factors also induces the risk of instability of the brain.
Early Life Environment – Any kind of negative experience an individual might have encountered at the early childhood also induces mental illness. Even negligence in the care during the childhood affects the mental condition thereby leading to mental instability.
Question 3. Assessment of the Mental Health Condition
Question 4.
The primary job of the registered nurse having specialization in the mental health is to identify between a mentally ill person and a mentally disordered person. This clarification would help her in strategizing the type of care aimed for the patient. Post the above step, she needs to identify the intensity of the harm and the reasons that might lead to prolong or further deterioration of the mental health of the patient. She must also be sensitive while dealing with these kind of special cases as these patients lack mental stability and not aware of the thing going around them. Each patient with mental illness condition is having different medical requirement and if the same is not been handled effectively, might lead to conditions that could worsen their physical as well and emotional conditions. The registered nurses who are accountable of taking care of these patients should have basic required qualification but along with that they need special feature of reasoning and critical thinking so that they could act based on the situation and condition of the patient (Leppien, E., Mulcahy, K., Demler, T. L., Trigoboff, E., & Opler, L. (2018). Mental wellness is a combination of various aspects including inter-generational dependence, subjective well-being, self-actualization, perceived self-efficacy, competence and autonomy. The realization abilities of an individual along with his ability to cope up with the general stresses of life and having a productive approach is some of the basic features of mental health. A combination or professional skills and practical; assistance would help in supporting Hilary and her family who desperately needs support to improve her mental health condition.
Question 5. Discussion on Sammy’s Schizophrenic Condition
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) – This is designed in such a manner that the self-harming behavior of an individual is reduced like the thought of cutting, suicide attempt, etc.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) – It is a common approach that helps in treating the mental illness largely. It is utilized for monitoring the behavioral change in an individual suffering from mental illness. This is also applicable for the condition that Dean is facing.
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