Chapter 2
Relevant Theories and
Therapies for Nursing Practice
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The mind as an iceberg
(Fig. 2-1)
Slide 2-2
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Freud
Personality Structure
Developmental Stages
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Id
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Oral
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Ego
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Anal
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Superego
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Phallic
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Latency
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Genital
Levels of Awareness
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Conscious
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Preconscious
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Unconscious
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Erikson vs. Freud
Erikson
Freud
• stressed ego
• stressed id
• psychosocial aspects of
development
• psychosexual aspects of
development
• considers life span
development
• personality formed by age
of 5
• studied healthy people
• studied neurotic people
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Sullivan
Needs
Self System
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Satisfactions
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Good-me
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Security
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Bad-me
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Not-me
Anxiety
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Empathetic between
child and mother
Can be described;
observable behaviors
Security Operations
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Selective inattention
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Dissociation
Individuals strive for
anxiety reduction
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Peplau
4 Phases of Interpersonal Process
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Orientation
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Identification
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Working

Resolution
Described 4 Levels of Anxiety
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Peplau, cont.
Ideas about Nursing
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Focus is on client
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Nurse is participant observer
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Nurse has awareness of role
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Nursing is investigative
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Nurses use theory
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Developed process recording
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Piaget
Stages of Cognitive Development
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Sensorimotor
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Preoperational
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Concrete operations
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Formal operations
Schema
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Developed to organize and understand the world
Processes Used to Develop Schemata
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Assimilation
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Adaptation
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Maslow
Needs Hierarchy
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Physiological needs
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Psychological needs
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Meta-needs
Beliefs about Humankind
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Needs are fulfilled by and through other humans
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A person does the best he/she can at the time
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With adequate understandable information, a person will
make good decisions
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Man has a higher nature
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Kohlberg
Level I Preconventional (ages 4-10)
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Emphasis on external control, avoiding punishment
Level II Conventional Role Conformity (ages 10-13)
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Want to please other and be considered “good”
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Develop social concern and conscience
Level III Autonomous Moral Principles (after age 13,
if ever)
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Acknowledges the possibility of conflict between 2
accepted standards and tries to decide between them
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Acts in accord with internalized standards
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Psychotherapies
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic
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Focus:
- internal experience
- defense mechanisms
- transference and past relationships
Therapist: more non-directive
Cognitive Therapy
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Focus:
- thoughts/cognitions
- correcting cognitive distortions
Therapist: active and directive
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Psychotherapies, cont.
Interpersonal Therapy
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Focus: interpersonal relationships
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Problems:
- Grief
- Role disputes
- Role transition
- Interpersonal deficit
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Therapist: active and directive
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Psychotherapies, cont.
Behavioral Therapy
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Focus: learning more adaptive behavior
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Applications: - Operant conditioning
- Modeling
- Systematic desensitization
- Aversion therapy
- Relaxation
- Assertiveness
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Therapist: active and directive
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