Mid Term Flashcards
(107 cards)
Phases of Therapeutic Relationship
Orientation, Working, Termination
Proxemics
Study of distance. 3ft is Therapeutic distance
Proxemics: 6-18 inches
Intimate Space
Proxemics: 18-47 inches
Personal
Proxemics: 47in-3ft
Social
Proxemics: 3ft and beyond
Public
Proxemics: Therapeutic Distance
3ft
Transference
Set of expectations, beliefs, emotional responses that a patient brings to the therapeutic relationship. Unconscious displacement or transfer of feelings onto the nurse
Counter Transference
Behavioral/emotional response nurse has to patient. May be unconscious or partially conscious.
Displacement
Defense Mechanism. Directing anger onto a substitute
Projecting
Attributing ones own unacceptable thoughts/feelings to another
Reaction Formation
Expressing the opposite feeling
Undoing
Ritualistically negating intolerable thoughts/feelings
mood
Person’s pervasive and enduring emotional state. Internal state. Presented as a quote.
affect
Outward expression of internal emotional state. “Affect matches stated mood” would be a normal finding.
Thought Content
What a person is thinking about. Includes sensory/perceptual alternations (AH/VH)
Insight
Persons’s awareness of one’s responsibility for and analysis of a current problem
Judgement
Person’s ability to make a decision and delay gratification
Circumstantial Thinking
Delay in reaching point, too much unnecessary and tedious detail
Delusion
Fixed false belief that persists despite proof that it is false or irrational. Paranoia or grandiosity.
Flight of Ideas
Rapid succession of fragmented thoughts or speech, may be incoherent. Manic feature.
Ideas of Reference
Thinking that someone is talking directly to you ie the TV
Loose Associations
Disordered progression of thoughts, jumping from one idea to another
Tangential Thinking
Wandering off the point of a story