NURS20151: Therapeutic Strategies, Mental Disorders & Reflection

This portfolio provides an overview of therapeutic use in mental health nursing, focusing on its application in treating individuals with mental disorders. It identifies characteristics of various mental disorders that affect a person's ability to think, feel, and relate effectively with others. The portfolio also reflects on the use of therapeutic strategies under clinical supervision, emphasizing the importance of expert guidance in mental health treatment. The goal is to demonstrate an understanding of how to provide appropriate care and improve the quality of life for patients with mental health disorders. The document highlights the necessity of differentiating between the roles of patient and provider, and the importance of professional bonding in achieving effective treatment outcomes. The portfolio concludes that mental health disorders require proper treatment and care, and encourages consulting therapists for expert knowledge and strategy.

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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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Identifying the characteristics of various mental disorders that impact on a person’s ability to
think, feel or relate effectively with others
Mental disorder is a state where a person loses his or her consciousness and does not acts
or feels anything real. The different characteristics of a mental disorder that has an impact on
person are mentioned below:
 A feeling of down or sad which loses the patients morale and gives rise to negative
thoughts.
 A thinking with high confusion or reduction in the ability of making concentration to
anything.
 Excessive anger, violence or hostility that brings frequent mood changes or an inability to
cope up with their daily stress or problems.
 Extreme worry of fear that provides a feeling of guild or ignorance from others.
 Having hallucinations or paranoia that allows them to get detached from their family or
society (Otasowie, 2021).
The characteristics of mental disorder can be identified through its symptoms or by the
act of an individual that will present their mental stability or state of consciousness.
Reflect on the use of therapeutic strategies with the assistance of clinical supervision
Clinical supervision refers to an expert guidance of any doctor or therapist who has a
deep and right knowledge about the treatment. A clinically supervisor knows how to deal with
the patients with mental disorder and what kind of treatment is needed to provide them. The
main behind the use of clinical supervision assistance in therapeutic use is that they reduces any
sort of intervention or disturbance in treatment, they may enhance or maintain the mental health
of their patients and can develop the fidelity to have experience based treatment. This helps in
controlling and maintaining the emotions or feelings of nurses at the time of treatment and
provides assistance in finding the difference between a patient and a provider. A clinically
supervision therapeutic strategies involved a planned and structured treatment that is being
provided to patient based on to their condition and varies from patient to patient (Sisti, Mann and
Oquendo, 2020).
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CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that a mental disorder is a serious health issue
that needs a proper treatment and care. Any negative reaction of a person with mental disorder
will be costly to others because of his or actions. In order to have a mental stability one should
consult doctor or reach therapist so that can be treated with expert knowledge and proper
strategy. Therapeutic use to self means providing a treatment to patients with a clear
understanding of the difference between a patient & provider. A person with mental disorder can
be characterized as a person who has a high fear or anger, feels sad or neglected or suffering
from hallucinations. A mental disorder can take sever face which cannot be sometimes curable
and will bring detachment from different things or people. A healthy mind is extremely
important for a successful and peaceful life.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Aftab, A. and Rashed, M.A., 2021. Mental disorder and social deviance. International Review of
Psychiatry. 33(5). pp.478-485.
Cook, A., 2020. Using an inclusive therapeutic theatre production to teach self-advocacy skills in
young people with disabilities. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 71, p.101715.
Otasowie, J., 2021. Co-occurring mental disorder and substance use disorder in young people:
aetiology, assessment and treatment. BJPsych Advances. 27(4). pp.272-281.
Sisti, D., Mann, J.J. and Oquendo, M.A., 2020. Toward a distinct mental disorder—suicidal
behavior. JAMA psychiatry. 77(7). pp.661-662.
Xiao, C., 2020. A novel approach of consultation on 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)-
related psychological and mental problems: structured letter therapy. Psychiatry
investigation. 17(2). p.175.
Zhang and et. al., 2021. Macrocyclic‐Amphiphile‐Based Self‐Assembled Nanoparticles for
Ratiometric Delivery of Therapeutic Combinations to Tumors. Advanced Materials.
33(12). p.2007719.
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