Chapter 26 Key Terms
- Adjunctive treatments
- range of alternative treatments designed to enhance the impact of primary treatments, improving overall mental health outcomes
- Anti-psychiatry movement
- a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment can be often more damaging than helpful to patients
- Internet interventions
- therapies delivered via web-based services, flexible and adapted to suit adult lifestyles and responsibilities
- Medicalization
- process by which mental health issues are framed and treated primarily as medical conditions
- Nursing informatics
- integration of nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data
- Residual symptoms
- such as fatigue, anxiety, and sleep disturbances that are commonly left over after treatment and are associated with relapse and disability
- User group
- structured gatherings of individuals who share common experiences, in this case related to mental health issues
- Validation therapy
- empathetic and holistic approach to care that emphasizes understanding and respect for the client’s subjective experiences
range of alternative treatments designed to enhance the impact of primary treatments, improving overall mental health outcomes
a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment can be often more damaging than helpful to patients
therapies delivered via web-based services, flexible and adapted to suit adult lifestyles and responsibilities
process by which mental health issues are framed and treated primarily as medical conditions
integration of nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data
such as fatigue, anxiety, and sleep disturbances that are commonly left over after treatment and are associated with relapse and disability
structured gatherings of individuals who share common experiences, in this case related to mental health issues
empathetic and holistic approach to care that emphasizes understanding and respect for the client’s subjective experiences
