Valvetta McGee-Hudson | Opinion about mental health and illness

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Concept of Mental Health and illness

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Valvetta Mc-Hudson Mental Health
Psychological wellness is a condition of
prosperity where a man can understand his or her
abilities to adapt to ordinary hassles of life
and work .
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Mental Health/Illness Continuum

• Stress
• Mental Health Mental Illness
• ADAPTIVE MALADAPTIVE
• Healthy Neurosis Psychosis
• Reality Oriented Denies Reality
• Positive self-concept
• Emotional stable

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VALVETTA MCGEE-HUDSON-FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

• Satisfying interpersonal relationships
• Effective behavior and coping
• Positive self-concept
• Emotional stability
• Self-awareness

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Valvetta Mcgee-hudson -Who Has Mental Health

• We all miss the mark to some degree.
• Along these lines, backers of psychological
  well-being trust that a wide scope of emotional
  wellness administrations ought to be accessible
  to all inclusive community, not simply truly
  rationally sick.

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Valvetta Mcgee-hudson -Mental Illness

• A mental disorder or condition manifested by
  disorganization and impairment of functions that
  arises from various causes such as psychological,
  neurobiological and genetic factors.

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The Classification of Mental
IllnessThe Neuroses usually the patient
retains insight and orientation they experience
deep distress and may commit suicide as
depressionThe Psychoses(the patient is
disorientated, deluded, and lacking in insight)
e.g. Schizophrenia, puerperal psychosis The
DementiasProgressive deterioration with loss of
recent memory and deterioration of a normal
personality,They may be primary or more commonly
secondary to another condition e.g. alcohol,
stroke
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Etiology mental illness
Drug Abuse Alcohol,Heroin etc
Inheritance-Genetics/Intra-uterine environment
Schizophrenia,Huntingtons
Upbringing Mothering,education,parenting
Neurological diseases MS,Brain tumour
Trauma/head injury
Biochemistry/metabolic Porphyria,Diabetes
Infections-HIV,Syphilis,CJD
Vascular-CVA
Nutrition/PCM
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Classification of Mental Illnesses

• The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
  Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision
  (DSM-IV-TR).
• Diagnostic criteria are listed for each of the
  psychiatric disorders.
• A multiaxial system- people are evaluated from
  multiple aspects or points of function.

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Population at Risk for Mental Illness

1. Familiar or genetic predisposition to mental
   illness
2. Poor access to health care
3. Misusing substance
4. Undergoing lifestyle changes
5. Victims of violence
6. Elderly poor

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• Valvetta Mcgee-hudson Community Mental Health
  Services

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Valvetta Mcgee-hudson -
gt Treatment and Care
Hospital Care
Community Care
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Preventive NetworksChurch, Family, Home,
Friends, Work
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Psychiatric Nursing

• Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is
  the specialty of nursing that cares for people of
  all ages with mental illness or mental distress.
• An interpersonal process that promotes and
  maintains behavior that contributes to integrated
  functioning

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What do psychiatric nurses do?

• Ensure safety and security
• Care for biophysical needs
• ADLs
• Nutrition, exercise
• Medication management
• Assist in creating a healthy social world
• increase self-awareness by
• Discussion,
• Experience
• Role play

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Common terminology used in psychiatric and mental
therapy
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Dynamics of Human Behavior

• Behavior the way an individual reacts to a
  certain stimulus
• Conflict situation arising from the presence of
  two opposing drives
• Need - organismic condition that requires a
  certain activity
• Stress life events in which a demanding
  situation taxes a persons resources as coping
  mechanisms
• Adaptation process of interacting with the
  environment to maintain homeostatic equilibrium
• Maladaptation ineffective coping

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Dynamics of Human Behavior cont.

• Personality integration of systems and habits
  representing an individuals characteristic and
  adjustment to his environment expressed through
  behavior

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Personality

• Every person is special
• We all have distinctive identities
• My identity reflects hereditary legacy and
  Environment

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3 divisions of the mind

• Conscious focused on awareness
• Subconscious recalled at will
• Unconscious never recalled / largest part
• Learning change in behavior through insight ,
  relearning and remotivation

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Valvetta Mcgee-hudson Behavior
The Parent
SUPER-EGO
EGO
The Adult
ID
The Child
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Valvetta Mcgee-hudson The Subconscious Mind
The Conscious
The Subconscious