NRS222 Essential Nursing Care : Mental Health Nursing
Question:
1.The rationale for focusing the behaviour change intervention with that specific population for this part, justify why this behaviour of concern was chosen, why is it a concern to the population that you work with/have chosen to write about and why have you chosen the specific intervention that you will present in the report, e.g. what does the research say
2.Critical review of theoretical perspectives that have been applied to supporting behaviour change in this population. For this part, review the research around behaviour change for this behaviour and critically analyse/justify why you have chosen the intervention you did
3.Any potential barriers at the neurophysiological, individual, interpersonal, organisational levels and how these barriers could be overcome. For this part, think about what barriers there might be to successful change from the clients perspective, from the practitioners perspective and through the system that surrounds them.
Specific details of the intervention are not required within this assignment and the focus should be on the justification of the theoretical approach and key areas of intervention.
Answer:
Introduction
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that is linked to a disabling of psychological. Cognitive and occupational functioning of the brain. (Hayes, Levin, Plumb, Villatte & Pistorello 2013). Evidence has revealed that behavioral change interventions can work towards increasing the changes of recovery and remission of the affected. Schizophrenia is majorly identifiable with cognitional and emotional disruptions that often lead to a progressive neglect of personal care and a failure to do well in social interactions in the affected people. (Herbert & Forman 2011). The narrow view that has been given towards tackling this mental problem have proved to be futile, and there needs to be ideas based on neurophysiology to approach behavior change in the affected individuals.
Psychological Interventions
i.Cognitive therapy
ii.Psycho education programs,
iii.Family intervention,
iv.Social coping skills
v.Training programs
vi.Case management
In addition to these identified approaches, there are also traditional approaches that have been incorporated in these psychological interventions. These include psychodynamic psychotherapies, Insight based psychotherapies and behavioral change techniques. These traditional approaches have also been proved to be effective in lessening the psychotic symptoms of patients with schizophrenia. Each of these identified classes of psychological intervention has its own goals and advantages and procedures of treatment. However, they have all been confirmed as effective in ameliorating various aspects of the individuals living with the problem.
Rationale of Psychological Interventions towards solving Schizophrenia patients
Psychological measures for schizophrenia patients involves family interventions and personal therapies with patients. (Mohr, Burns, Schueller, Clarke & Klinkman 2013). A good number of these in interventions directly apply principles of Cognitive-behavior technology (CBT) or they may derive their operational processes from the CBT principle. Although it is largely speculated that CBT –based interventions could promote positive results for schizophrenia patients, there is no much evidence to support that CBT could be more superior to other therapies. Currently, there have been good evidence on use of CBT related interventions for people living with schizophrenia. CBT researchers have really done a good work in researching for this intervention approach and thee is a good number of literature material on the approaches of CBT towards helping people with schizophrenia. (Mitchell, Gehrman, Perlis & Umscheid 2012).
Literature Review
Schizophrenia is evidenced by its notable symptoms that include delusions and hallucinations, inconsistent breaking speech and behavior, indicative symptoms of discomfiture and a notable psychological dis-functioning. While often thought to be progressively hindering disorder of the mind, studies have revealed that schizophrenia has been found to be a varying illness, and its symptoms can vary and mutate between the common known behaviors to strange and unexpected ones that are majorly influenced by psychosocial interventions and the pharmacological treatment interventions that schizophrenia patients are often subjected to. Schizophrenia is usually characterized by difficulty in copying with changes in life, notable cognitive impairment, psychophysiological effects and chronic consistently debilitating cognitive failure. (Ryan, Lynch, Vansteenkiste & Deci 2011). The severity of the disorder is measure by the individual’s response of copying, and stress level.
With this condition, (schizophrenia), relapsed are normal occurrences. Relapses is one of the positive symptom of schizophrenia. This symptom has often been associated with prodromal symptoms and stressful events in life. Unfriendly interactions with family members, overstretching residential treatments and disappointments. Previous research has revealed that early interventions and prodromal signs can be potential factors in bringing down elapses. (Safren et al 2009).
There are also important phases in the treatment of schizophrenia that it is important to understand in order to avoid precipitating on de-compensations because of exerted efforts of rehabilitation. Many authors have noted that immense rehabilitation efforts contribute to precipitating of relapses within the first six months of treatment.
Findings of illness related deficits in this illness (schizophrenia) provide an empirical and conceptual foundation for development of CBT. Studies have highlighted a need for coping skills that will help clients to cope with situational stresses and to change the perception of events, lessen psychological arousals and put more focus on the interaction of the malady of the person affected. (Wetherell et al 2011).
CBT procedures that have been done in the past with schizophrenia are majorly focused on changing of delusions and hallucinations. Several studies show positive results with graded examinations based on evidence and the design of alternative methods to alter and lessen the power of hallucinations and increase management of symptoms. Other researchers view CBT as a way of offering adjunctive therapies in inpatient and residential settings. The Kingdom and Turlington study of 1991 and 1994 views CBT as a way of normalizing methodology to explain management of symptoms to clients. The result of this study suggests that these approaches led to a drastically reduced records of reduced cases of symptomatology and improved social interactions. In addition cases of hospitalization also appeared to have reduced drastically.
In a study by Bradshaw, a CBT study that involved a single subject with four individuals who had participated I outpatient treatment, it was found that there was a notable reduction in the symptomatology and hospitalization cases and a subsequent improvement in the functional psychological attainment objectives that set.
Viewed generally in this particular review, CBT can be useful with schizophrenia patients. However, many studies have been limited on this subject because of the methodological problems that that come during the time of clinical testing and experimental treatments. Most studies lack outcome measures which consequentially lead to meagre post-treatment data. Furthermore, there have been limited comprehensive use of CBT principles to schizophrenia clients over a long period of the illness.
Supportive Educational Interventions
Individual Psycho-educational Interventions
A big challenge in the mental health sector is implementation of interventions that are evidence – based within their respective settings. Many implementation efforts have had major setbacks due to barriers that can be identified in each implementation level. (Beck 2011). At each level of the implementation of psychological interventions can be identified barriers. According to research that has been done, personal level, organizational and provider-level barriers. Personal barriers refer to challenges that clients face that are limited to their own personal affairs. Organizational barriers refers to the attributes of the environmental setting where the implementation is set to occur. (Persons 2012). The characteristics of the setting may be cultural or climatic. Intervention barriers refer to the characteristics of the interventions to be implemented. Neurophysiological barriers may include attributes of the principles and models that are to be used in implementing the interventions, in which the organizations and providers are situated. Below are some of the barriers that may be faced on various levels. Among the barriers to behavioral change among the individuals with schizophrenia is Stigma and discrimination in the interpersonal level. Stigma involves the prejudices and stereo types of people towards people with schizophrenia. Organizational barriers also contribute immensely to affect outcomes in the implementation of interventions to help people with schizophrenia, in this case. Many providers and settings have not yet fully implemented this principle in their programs of treatment although CBT is considered to be an effective evidence-based approach towards helping individuals in behavior change.
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