- Is the duty that deals with the cognitive and behavioral pattern of functioning of an individual which focuses mainly on the management for those individuals that deviates from the norm
- It involves understanding of human behavior and factors that could affect the individuals
- It is an interpersonal process where the professional nurse practitioner assists the individual, the family, and the community to promote mental health, to prevent or cope with the experience of mental illness and suffering and if necessary to find meaning in those experiences. (Travelbee)
Psychiatric Treatment
- Use of words
- Drugs
- Environment
- Somatic therapies
- Behavioural conditioning
Psychotherapeutic Management
- Psychotherapeutic nurse-patient relationship
- Psychopharmacology
- Milieu management
Psychopathology
- Self
- Psychotropic drugs
- Environment
