Part 1:
Therapeutic Relationships in Mental Health Nursing
Discuss how you create positive therapeutic relationships with service users. This discussion and analysis needs to consider the meaning of what therapeutic relationships are. It needs to explore how verbal and non-verbal communication skills are used and applied to develop the relationship.
You also need to consider the challenges of the different environments that mental health nurses work in when developing therapeutic relationships (e.g. working in in-patient hospital settings and working in people’s homes); and the challenges of developing therapeutic relationships based on different types of illness or difficulty a person is experiencing.
Contemporary mental health literature needs to be used to support the discussion and analysis.
Part 2:
Therapeutic Approach
Identify a specific therapeutic approach that you are going to apply the principles of, when working with John e.g. CBT, SFBT, MI, PCT etc…
You are required to introduce the approach and give a clear rationale for choosing this way of working. What are the key ideas and the overarching philosophy of the approach? Who developed the approach and what evidence is there for its application in mental health settings?
Please remember to keep this discussion simple, clear, and focused. If you over-complicate things, you run the risk of being too broad in your discussion and end up trying to cover too much. Remember, you are not doing formal therapy, you are applying the principles of a particular therapy in your day to day 1-1 work with John.