Nursing began to emerge as a profession in the nineteenth century. Linda Richards was the first American psychiatric nurse, and the first school for psychiatric nurses opened in 1882. It was not until the late 1930s that nursing education viewed the importance of psychiatric knowledge in general ...
In mental health nursing, a patient or client may be dealt with as an individual, family, group, organization, or community. In a variety of settings, various direct and indirect functions based on concepts of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention are discussed below. 1. Primary Function...
Most people believe that they can recognize normal and abnormal behavior in themselves and their associates. This is true to an extent. Although a person may be unwilling or unable to admit to a serious disturbance of feelings or behavior; most are aware of feeling: “Nervous or irritable” or depr...
Repression: Involving exclusion of a painful or conflictual thought, impulse, or memory from awareness. Example: Mr. T does not recall hitting his wife when she was pregnant. Suppression: It is the intentional exclusion of material from consciousness. At times, it may lead to subsequent rep...
When an individual suffers anxiety frequently due to stressful situations and he/she is not able to cope with that then he has developed an abnormal personality. Psychopathology means “the branch of science which deals with morbidity or pathology of the psyche or mind”. The malfunctioning of the...
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