NCM 117 Rle - Psychodynamic Therapy

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NCM 117 RLE - PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY

Tuesday, 22 February 2022 7:29 am

Psychodynamic Therapy Goals


□ To provide choice of approach based on developmental considerations for clinical
decision making -> important for us to provide active care to our client
□ To deepen understanding about development and how the patient's history is re-
enacted in the nurse-patient relationship -> history taking is vital for nursing and
medical management
□ To restore client's functioning, reducing anxiety, strengthening defenses, and more
effective problem solving -> important to understand the person's dynamics for us
to have the informed decisions about the treatment, development, anxiety,
transference, countertransference, etc.
*Psychodynamic therapy requires teaching and experience for us to attain the required
competency

Predisposing Factors

Biological Factors - Body's physiologic processing


✓ Biochemical
✓ Age
✓ Gender
✓ Genetics
✓ Civil status
✓ Educational background

Environmental Factors
□ Extrinsic
➢ Sizable impact on person's health; affects medical decision making
✓ Socioeconomic
✓ Sociocultural
✓ Lifestyle (all aspects)
□ Intrinsic
➢ Immediate members of the fam and significant others
✓ Relationship with Mother, Father, Siblings
✓ Relationship with Husband, Wife, Child

Developmental Factors
□ Psychosocial Theory
➢ Erik Erikson
➢ If people successfully deal w/ a conflict, they emerge from the stage with

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➢ If people successfully deal w/ a conflict, they emerge from the stage with
psychological strength that will serve them well for the rest of their lives
□ Psychosexual Theory
➢ Sigmund Freud
➢ Freud believed that personality develops through a series of childhood stages in
which the pleasure-seeking energies of the person will become focused on a certain
erogenous area; erogenous areas consider the sensitive and most pleasurable area
of the person
□ Cognitive Developmental Theory
➢ Jean Piaget
➢ Suggests that children move through 4 different stages of mental development;
focuses not only on the understanding how children acquire knowledge but also on
understanding the nature of intelligence

Imbalances, problems and concerns along the way / Disruption of the process and flow
WEAKENED EGO

As a direct and initial response, this will be used to protect the person's fragile ego
PRIMARY APPRAISAL
(EGO DEFENSE MECHANISM)

Ego Defense Mechanisms


□ Unconscious resources used by the ego to reduce the conflict between the ID and
super ego
□ Reflection on how an individual deals with conflict and stress

➢ Suppression
➢ Blackout
➢ Repression
➢ Denial
➢ Irritability
➢ Anger
➢ Sublimation

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➢ Sublimation
➢ Projection
➢ Reaction formation
➢ Undoing
➢ Displacement
➢ Conversion
➢ Dissociation
➢ Identification
➢ Introjection
➢ Isolation
➢ Rationalization
➢ Regression

PRECIPITATING FACTORS

Noncompliance to medications
Stressful life situations
Conflict
Crisis

SECONDARY APPRAISAL
□ Adaptive response
➢ Changes in the brain activity that are designed to maintain homeostasis and
performance when possible
➢ Responses are individualized
✓ Verbalization of feelings
✓ Willingness to participate in medication regimen

□ Maladaptive response
➢ Person cannot cope with their demands, crises and possibilities
➢ Maladaptive behaviors are those that stop the person from adapting to a new
or difficult circumstance
➢ Start after a major life change, illness or traumatic event

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➢ Start after a major life change, illness or traumatic event
✓ Restlessness
✓ Hostility
✓ Depressed mood

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