Philippe Pinel
Removed chains at Bicetre, France
Introduced a more humain psychological approach towards the custody and care of psychiatric
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Charles K Clark
Influenced in bringing about new models of care.
Superintendent of Ontario psychiatric hospitals.
Made improvements; nurse training in asylum personnel.
Established Toronto psychiatric hospital opening in 1925
Clifford Beers
Wrote about his abusive experiences in several mental institutions. (A mind that found itself)
Founded the national committee for mental hygiene)
This committee started the development of child guidance clinics, prison clinics, and industrial mental health approaches.
Adolf Meyer
Discovered psychiatric pluralism.
Integration of human biological functions with environment.
Including the surgical treatment for psychosis.
Dorothea Dix
Responsible for mental Heath Care reform in US, Canada, Britain.
Investigated conditions of jail's and plight of mentally ill people.
Promoted building mental health hospitals.
Advocated for mental institutions in Halifax and St.John.
Hildegaurd Pepau
Supported a holistic view on patient care.
Peplau's work "Interpersonal Relations in Nursing" introduced PHM nursing practice to concepts and importance of a therapeutic relationship.
"Mother of psychiatric nursing".
Mental institutions early life
Custodial (non medical) care and practice management, treatment rarely occurred.
Large # of people were forced to to live together.
Self contained communities.
Psychopharmacology
A study of using medications in treating mental disorders.
Mental health
Integral to general health and can be possessed in the presence of mental illness.
How you view or do:
Self potential.
Cope with life stressors.
Able to work productively and contribute to society.
Goals of recovery
Gaining and retaining hope.
Ones abilities and disabilities.
Engagement in an active life.
Personal autonomy.
Social identity.
Pros of labelling
No more fear of hiding.
Less misunderstandings.
Receive appropriate treatment.
Cons of labelling
Stigma's.
Discrimination.
Prejudice.
Hard to get a job.
Not able to work for their things.
Aboriginal population issues
Stereotyping.
Prejudice.
Colonialism.
Assimilation.
Displacement.
Substitute decision maker
An individual whose responsibility to make decisions for one who isn't able to regarding their own health care.
communication process
Therapeutic communication.
Verbal communication.
Nonverbal communication.
Empathic link.
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Difference between laws and ethics
Ethics: comes from moral values, right/wrong, rules.
Laws: punishable, enforced and created by government, use ethics as templates.
Mental health commission of Canada
Plays catalytic role.
Promotes positive change though knowledge exchange.
Sponsors major initiatives: opening minds, at home chez ski, psychological health and safety in workplace, mental health first aid.
The Canadian federation of mental health nurses
Created the first Canadian psychiatric and mental health nursing standards.
The international society of psychiatric mental health nurses
Work to unite and strengthen the presence and voice of the PHM nurses
The college of psychiatric nurses of Manitoba
Regulatory body for the psychiatric nursing profession in Manitoba.
Carry out activities and govern its members in a manner that serves and protects the public.
Provides safe competent care
License to practice.
Professional practice.
Stand by Canadian standards.
Effectively manages rapidly changing situations.
Ethical Dilemma
Threats to dignity.
Behaviour control, seclusion, restraint.
Psychiatric advance directives.
Relational engagement.
Confidentiality and privacy.
Advance in genetics.
Social justice.
Research ethics.
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Defence Mechanisms
Mechanisms that mediate the clients reaction to emotional conflicts and eternal stressors.
Projection.
Rationalization.
Reaction formula.
Repression.
Denial.
Displacement.
Dissociation.
Idealization.
Undoing.
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Stigma
a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person.
stigmatization
the branding of behavior as highly disgraceful.
Unacceptable, devalued, isolated from society.
Culture
Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
cultural competency
The ability to give care and services appropriately to the cultural characteristics of the person, family or community receiving them.
Cultural safety
Focuses on root causes.
Process and outcome whose goal is greater equity.
Cultural awareness.
Cultural sensitivity.
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