Nursing | Mental Health Case Study

Running head : Nursing
Mental health
Name of the student
Name of the university
Authors note

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Consumer Priority Identified
Goals/Issues
Consumer’s
strengths to address
these issues
Consumer and Nursing
Interventions
Persons Responsible Timeframe
Rachelle is
suffering from
severe depression
during her perinatal
condition. She was
suffering from
hopelessness and
low self-worthiness
and considered
herself as a failure
of being a mother.
Issues- Postnatal
depression with a
feeling of
hopelessness and
lack of positivity
towards life.
Rachelle could not
feel a connection
with her child. She
had issues during
breastfeeding her
child. She lost her
brother recently and
her sister is
suffering from
cancer. The
relationship
between Rachel and
her husband was
taken for granted by
both of them.
Goal: Rachel will
come out from
depression and live
hard life happily.
She will enjoy her
motherhood fully
without out any
anxiety and guilt.
Rachelle will find the
strength to overcome
her condition with the
help of the clinical
nurse.
Strengths are
discussed as follows
 Willing to cope
with
Motherhood
and develop a
better
relationship
with the baby to
provide good
care to the
child.
 Showing
proactiveness
towards
maintaining self-
care guidelines
 Approach
towards
maintaining
health records
and practicing
the guidelines
recommended
by health
 The nurse should
maintain effective
communication
with Rachel to
boost confidence
and improve her
positivity towards
life. The nurse
should increase
resourcefulness,
capability, ability
will be established
with self -belief.
 Clinical nurses can
take the help of a
therapist and
mental health
nurses to counsel
the patient and
treat depression.
She will try to
improve her self
confidence and re-
establish self-
worthiness.
 Nurses will train
her on how to
develop a positive
relationship with
 Clinical nurses will
help in counseling
and boosting her
confidence and
establishing her
optimism.
 Spiritual nurses and
bereavement support.
 Cognitive-behavioral
therapy and
interpersonal therapy
will be conducted by
psychotherapist or
psychiatrist
(Bonacquisti, Cohen,
& Schiller, (2017)).
 Maternity nurses or
registered nurses will
help her to teach
different postures for
holding the baby and
techniques regarding
breastfeeding
(Eksioglu et al.,
2017).
 Relationship
counselors or mental
health experts will
help in couples
 Therapists will use
EPDS(Edinburgh
Postnatal
Depression Scale
) after weekly
sessions
(Lydsdottir et al.,
2019).
 She should
maintain a journal
regularly to
understand her
condition and
improvement.
 Maternity nurses
will ask different
questions to assess
Rachelle’s
response and
improvement
towards
integrating baby
and mother
relation.

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experts
regularly.
the child and
support her to
overcome the
barriers she is
facing during
handling her child
(Martinez-Torteya
et al., 2018). They
will teach her how
to hold a baby with
proper posture and
how to breastfeed
her. Different
approaches to
breastfeeding
cradle, football,
clutch holding, and
side-lying will be e
taught her(Powell
et al., 2016).
 Nurses will help
her to strengthen
the mother-
daughter
connection with
the help of
adoption of
parenthood which
includes bonding
and sensual
responses
(Cowling, et al.,
therapy (Cornwell&
Woods, 2019).
 In hormonal therapy,
doctors will give her
medication to balance
progesterone and
estrogen in the
body(Shea &
Wolfman, 2017).

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2017). Nurse
understand the
baby's emotion and
help her in how to
identify the
positive and
negative response
of the baby
concerning touch,
eye to eye contact,
voices, and odor
recognition
(Sanson, 2019).
 Expression of the
child for hunger,
illness, discomfort
by crying pattern
and other
responses will be
demonstrated by
the nurse to new-
born mother.
 CBT (Cognitive
Behavioural
Therapy) and
Interpersonal
therapy will be
provided to the
patient for
developing the
Self-confidence
and reducing