Mental Health Nursing: Trauma-Informed Care and Practice

Mental Health- Nursing

Table of Contents
Issues demonstrated in the video...........................................................................................................2
Principles of trauma-informed care and practice...................................................................................2
The principles of trauma-informed care practice are as follows:...........................................................3
Collaborating mental health nurses........................................................................................................4
Applying trauma-informed care principles............................................................................................6
Choosing another member of the mental health multidisciplinary team................................................6
References.............................................................................................................................................8
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Issues demonstrated in the video
Lisa was appeared to be in good health but with a poor level of grooming and personal care.
The issues that were being faced by Lisa are as follows:
 Lisa was restless and agitated, playing with her hair and moving in her chair during
the appointment. In the session, she seems to be distracted and respond to some
unseen voices. However, she was cooperative and communicated freely. She
appeared to be anxious and agitated (YouTube, 2011).
 Lisa depicted signs of delusional and paranoid thinking. It was believed by her that
people were spying on her with microphones and cameras in her home. She started to
sleep in the garden shed due to this reason. She also thought that a transmitted is
inserted in her stomach by her boyfriend when she was sleeping. She believes that her
boyfriend will harm her and she always has to protect herself by keeping a knife while
she sleeps under the garden shed. There was no history of violence in their
relationship and her boyfriend also does not have to harm anyone. Lisa has also did
not have a history of harming others or self-harm (Berlatsky, 2016).
 Lisa was experiencing some auditory hallucinations. Different horrible voices were
also being heard by heard. She also misplaced the medications that she takes and also
did not remember when the last tablets were taken by her. Her parents were giving the
medications and it was being found that Lisa was suffering from mental illness
(Duckworth, 2009).
Principles of trauma-informed care and practice
Trauma-informed care and practice (TICP) are considered to be a strengths-based framework
which is based on six core principles. The principles are safety, transparency and
trustworthiness, mutual self-help and peer support, mutuality and collaboration, voice, choice
and empowerment and gender, historical and cultural issues. Trauma-informed care and
practice will be used for treating Lisa as it do not harm, embrace a message of optimism and
hope that recovery can be possible. Lisa is being suffering from mental illness because of
some auditory hallucinations. Trauma-Informed care and practice will assist to understand the
dynamics and framework of traumatic stress of Lisa (Conover, Sharp & Salerno, 2015).
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