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Define mental health |
the successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are age-appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms |
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define mental illness |
maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environments, evidenced by thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms, and interfere with the individual's social, occupational, and/or physical functioning |
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milieue therapy |
a scientific structuring of the environment to effect behavioral changes and to improve the physiological health and functioning of the individual. client is expected to learn coping skills that can be used in other aspects of life (SOCIAL REHABILITATION) -short term, for outpatient approach, interdiciplinary team |
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assumptions of milieu therapy and conditions |
encouraged to grow, peer pressure is a good tool, client owns his own environment and behavior, innapropriate behaviors are dealt with as they occur, punishment is to be avoided (self governing, basic physiological need are met, responsibilities are assigned according to patient capabilities, community and family is involved) |
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why is therapeutic communication important? |
to express empathy and concern, attend to clients thoughts feelings and concerns, obtain information about client, intervene to promote functional behavior, evaluate the client's progress towards goals and outcomes |
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characteristics of therapeutic communication |
client centered, purposeful, planned, and goal oriented |
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essential components of thereapeutic communication |
time, active listening (eye contact, body language, vocal quality, verbal tracking), caring attitude, honesty, trust, empathy, nonjudgmental attitude |
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barriers to effective communication |
asking irrelevant personal questions, offering personal opinions, giving advice, giving false reassurance, minimizing feelings, changing the topic, asking why questions, offering value judgements, excessive questioning, responding approvingly or disapprovingly |
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beneficence |
relates to the quality of doing good can be described as charity |
