Creating Meaningful Relationships: Understanding Therapeutic Use and Identifying Characteristics of Mental Disorders

CREATING
MEANINGFUL
RELATIONSHIPS
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.................................................................................................................................................3
Explaining the concept of therapeutic use.................................................................................................3
Identifying the characteristics of various mental disorders that impact on a person’s ability to think, feel
or relate effectively with others.................................................................................................................4
Reflect on the use of therapeutic strategies with the assistance of clinical supervision............................4
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
The term mental health denotes to a state of psychological, social and emotional
wellbeing in which an individual acts, thinks and feel or stays in consciousness. This helps in
determine the level of stress how much a person carries and due to which other problems arises.
This is the concern which is very essential at each stage of life whether it is childhood or
adolescence or adulthood (Aftab and Rashed, 2021). The mental health nursing is also refereed
as a psychiatric nursing which is a specified field of nursing that includes individual care with
their mental health disorder and to assist them in recovering or improving their quality of life.
The present report aims at generating portfolio that includes an understanding of therapeutic use,
identifying the characteristic of different mental disorder and a use of therapeutic strategies
under a supervision of clinical expert.
MAIN BODY
Explaining the concept of therapeutic use
Therapeutic use is a medicinal term or branch that is being related with particular
treatment for disease. This is generally a type of treatment or care which is being provided to a
patient with an aim of preventing as well as combating relevant disease or alleviating the injury
& pain. The use of therapeutic comprises for the mental health of an individual with their
emotional or illness difficulties. This can assist in eliminating & control various symptoms so
that a person’s mind could function better & enhances their well-being. This can be used in a
form of therapy sessions which can be conducted in family, individual group or in couple helping
adults and children both. The therapeutic use of self is a main focuses of nursing & needs a
complete awareness within nurses of their own thoughts, actions as well as feelings. This helps
in enabling the clinically appropriate treatment for the patient along with its benefit or
consequences to them as well as to others. This generally develops professional bonding among
the patient and the therapist so to have an effective progress over their treatment (Cook, 2020).
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