What is
MENTAL HEALTH?
- Balance in a person's internal life and adaptation to reality.
- A state of well being in which a person is able to realize his potentials
What are the characteristics of a mentally healthy person?
- According to Jahoda a mentally healthy person possesses the following:
- Attitude of self-acceptance
- Growth, development and self-actualization
- Integrative capacity
- Autonomous behavior
- Perception of reality
- Environmental mastery
What is
MENTAL ILL HEALTH?
- A state of imbalance characterized by a disturbance in a person's thoughts, feelings and behavior
- Poverty and abuses are major factors, which increases the risk of mental illness in the home.
What is
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING?
- Interpersonal process whereby the professional nursing practitioner through the therapeutic use of self assist an individual, family, group, community to promote mental health, to prevent mental illness and suffering, to participate in the treatment and rehabilitation of the mentally ill and if necessary to find meaning in these experiences.
- It is both a Science and an Art.
What is the
Science in psychiatric nursing?
- The use of different theories in the practise of nursing, serves as the science of psychiatric nursing.
What is the
Art in psychiatric Nursing?
- The therapeutic use of self is considered as the art of psychiatric nursing.
What is the
Core of Psychiatric Nursing?
- The interpersonal process, that is, the human to human relationship, is the core of psychiatric nursing.
Who are the clients of the nurse in psychiatric settings?
- The individual family and the community, both mentally healthy and mentally ill, are considered as the clientele in psychiatric nursing.
What is
MENTAL HYGIENE?
- It is the science that deals with measures to promote mental heath, prevent mental illness and suffering and facilitate rehabilitation.
