This document contains a presentation on mental health nursing. It defines mental health as a state of well-being and mental illness as a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome. It lists factors that affect mental health such as interpersonal, social, cultural, biological, and emotional factors. It discusses the purposes of mental disorders according to the DSM-V, areas of psychiatric nursing practice, cultural perceptions of mental health, and rights of psychiatric patients.

2. Independent University
Faisalabad
Presentation :
Mental Health nursing
Assigned by
Dr.Aslam Lodhi.

3. Group 1):
1. Abdul Rehman
2. Anum Gul
3. Alia Malik
4. Aiza Ali
5. Anmol Samuel
6. Anmol Bhatti

4. Objectives:
Define Mental Health
 Define Mental illness
 Factor affect Mental Health
 Purpose of Mental Disorder
 Psychiatric mental health nursing
 Areas of practice
Culture perception

5. Mental health and
Mental illness:

6. Mental Health:
Define:
People in state of physical, emotional, and
social well-being to fulfill life responsibilities, functions
effectively in daily life and are satisfied with their
interposnal relationship and themselves.
OR
Balance between thoughts and emotions called mental
health.

7. Mental Illness :
Define:
It is a clinically significant behavior or
psychological syndrome or pattern that occur in
individual and associated with distress , disability,
death, pain or important loss of freedom.

8. Factor Effecting Mental Health:
 Interpersonal factor
 Social factor
 Culture factor
 Biological factor
 Emotional factor

9. Purpose of Mental
Disorder:
DSM -V has three purposes :
 To provide a standardize nomenclature and language for all mental
health professional.
 To present defining characteristics or symptoms that differentiate
specific diagnosis
 To assist in identify the underlying causes of disorders.

10. Psychiatric- Mental Health nursing:
Scope and standards of practice:
 Standard 1. Assessment
 Standard 2. Diagnose
 Standard 3. Outcome identification
 Standard 4. Planning
 Standard 5. Implementation
 Standard 6. Coordination of care

11. Areas of practice:
Basic level of Functions:
 Counselling
• Intervention and communication technique
• Problem solving
• Crisis intervention
• Stress manage
• Behavior modification
 Meilieu therapy
• Maintain therapeutic environment
• Teach skill
• Encourage communication
• Promote growth

12. Areas of practice:
 Self care activities:
• Encourage independence
• Increase self esteem
• Improve function and health
 Psychobiological intervention
• Administer medication
• Teach
• Observe
 Health teaching
 Case management

13. Psychiatric- Nursing
practice:

14. Psychiatric nursing practice:
Richard is called the first American psychiatric-
nursing,
She believed "that mentally sick should be at least as
well cared for as the physically sick"

15. Psychiatric - Mental Health Nursing
phenomena of concern:
 Promotion of optimal mental and physical health
and well- being and prevention of mental Illness
 Impaired ability to function related to psychiatric ,
emotional and physiological distress
 Behavior and mental state that indicate potential
danger to self or others
 Psychological symptoms that occur along with
altered physiological status
 Self _ concept and body image changes ,
development issue life process changes, and end of
life issues .

16. Cultural Perceptions About
Mental Health

17. Health:
• WHO defines the health as a state of complete
physical, mental & social wellness, not merely the
absence of disease.
• Health perceived as a positive state of well being.

18. Cultural Perceptions Towards Mental
Health
• Different people have different concepts about
mental health as well as illness.
• Some of people believe that any sickness indicate
displeasure of God, infact a punishment of sin.

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• Culture
• African Americans
• Free of pain & stress & feeling of well being (
concept of health)
• Lack of spiritual balance ( illness belief)
• Chinese
• Balance maintain by body, mind & spirit (concept of
health)
• If someone have evil spirit ( illness belief)

20. • American Indians
• Breaking of taboos, ghosts (illness belief)
• Holistic & wellness oriented ( health)
• Japanese
• Balance among oneself, society & universe ( health)
• Loss of mental self-control, evil spirit (illness belief )
• Russian
• Stress, moving into new environment (illness belief)

21. Rights of psychiatric patient:
The right to wear their own clothes.
The right to keep and use their own personal,
possession include toilet article.
 The right to keep and be allowed to spend
responsible sum of their money of their own
expenses.
 The right to have access to individual storage
space for private use.
 The right to see visitors every day.

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 The right to get an informed consent.
 The right to witness.
 The right to confidentially record.
 The right to access upon request one's own mental
health care record.
 The right to voluntary admission by the patient if
he is major.
The right to voluntary discharge by the patient if he
is major.

23. Rights of mentally ill patient:
Access mental health care
 Community living
 Seek protection
 Equality
 Non discrimination
 Information
Confidentiality
 Access mental record
Personal contact
 Communication

25. Any
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