Mental Health and Family Dynamics
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to become familiar with planning care for the family related to a mental health condition and to identify how families adapt and live with mental health challenges.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Provide patient-centered nursing care that is evidence-based including the individual’s and family’s cultural and developmental variations, and health-promoting behaviors. (Student Learning Outcomes Level 2-1, 6, 8)
Use verbal and nonverbal communication that promotes caring therapeutic relationships with patients, families, and selected groups. (Student Learning Outcomes Level 2-3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Requirements – Follow the Rubric
The students will be given an individual with a mental health condition along with the family and the cultural information.
The student will research their selected condition to describe:
The major symptoms exhibited by the patient with this condition.
Potential disruptions to family life before the formal diagnosis is made.
Potential adjustments the family will need to make to support the patient through treatment and return to the community.
The students will submit a 4-6 page paper (including title and reference pages).
The paper must be in APA format. A minimum of 3 current scholarly articles is expected.
Use the following naming convention (Last_First_Assignment_Wk#)
Scholarly sources include articles found through Pub Med, WHO, CDC, Google Scholar, University of Washington, Culture Vision (Charter College Online Library), etc.
