Defense Mechanisms
The term defense mechanism refers to a predominantly unconscious self-protective process that seeks to shield the ego from intense feelings or affect and impulses.
Substance Abuse Disorders
Learn more about substance use disorders, its nursing care management, interventions, and assessment in this study guide.
Anxiety Disorders and Panic Disorders
Review this study guide and learn more about anxiety disorders, its nursing care management, interventions, and assessment.
Eating Disorders: Anorexia & Bulimia Nervosa
Read this study guide and learn more about eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa), its nursing care management, interventions, and assessment.
Amnestic Disorders
Learn more about amnestic disorders and its nursing care management, interventions, assessment in this study guide.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are diagnosed when personality traits become inflexible and maladaptive and significantly interfere with how a person functions in society or cause the person emotional distress.
Somatoform Disorders
Somatoform disorders are characterized by physical symptoms suggesting medical disease but without demonstrable organic pathology or a known pathophysiological mechanism to account for them.
Bipolar Disorder
Learn about the nursing management, assessment, diagnosis, and care planning for bipolar disorder in this study guide.
Dementia
Dementia is defined by a loss of previous levels of cognitive, executive, and memory function in a state of full alertness
Delirium
Delirium is a disturbance of consciousness and a change in cognition that develop rapidly over a short period.
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