An intensive type of case management developed in response to community-living needs of people with serious, persistent psychiatric symptoms and patterns of repeated hospitalization for services such as emergency room and inpatient care
Barriers to treatment
Reasons preventing people from receiving the help they need for mental illness
Continuum of psychiatric mental health treatment
Levels of treatment for psychiatric mental health
Decompensation
Deterioration of mental health and loss of control due to inability to compensate for mental illness due to stress
Deinstitutionalization
Shifting of psychiatric patients from state hospitals to the community
Ethical Dilemmas
A situation in which there is a conflict between two or more courses of action, each carrying favorable and unfavorable consequences
Serious Mental Illness
Mental disorders that interfere with some area of social functioning
Author
plbernal
ID
132383
Card Set
Mental Health Nursing
Description
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing in Community Settings