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• Self-awareness is the ability to understand one's own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

  
• Self-disclosure is the process of sharing self-awareness information with others
• Feedback is the information that others provide about oneself, completing the cycle where self-awareness leads to self-disclosure, then to feedback, and back to self-awareness
• The Johari Window is a tool used to help people understand their own and others' awareness of their strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes, etc. It is divided into four quadrants: Open, Blind spot, Hidden, and Unknown
• The Johari Window works by expanding the Open Area vertically through self-disclosure and horizontally through feedback, aiming to build stronger and more effective personal, professional, and family relationships
• Self-awareness is key for self-knowledge, self-understanding, skill development, decision-making, stress management, motivation, and leadership
• The SWOT analysis is a systematic method of analyzing Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats to help individuals focus on strengths, minimize threats, and take advantage of opportunities
• Self-assessment involves identifying and understanding personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to develop skills like time management, communication, leadership, and stress management
• The Johari Window's Quadrant 1 is the Open Area, known by the person and others; Quadrant 2 is the Blind Spot, unknown by the person but known by others; Quadrant 3 is the Hidden Area, known by the person but not by others; Quadrant 4 is the Hidden Area, containing unrecognized talents, motives, or childhood memories
• Self-disclosure and feedback styles impact relationships positively when characterized by honesty, openness, and mutual respect
• Increased self-awareness allows individuals to recognize and understand their moods, emotions, drives, and their impact on others, enhancing communication and relationships
• Self-disclosure and feedback processes, when used effectively, contribute to increased accuracy in communication, stress reduction, enhanced self-awareness, and stronger relationships
• Self-awareness is the foundation for self-development and increases as individuals receive feedback from others
• Self-disclosure is the process of sharing self-awareness with others
• Feedback is the information that others provide about oneself
• Self-awareness leads to self-disclosure, which leads to feedback, which in turn leads back to self-awareness in an ongoing process that helps individuals learn and grow
• A mental status exam assesses a person's mental health, including appearance, speech, eye contact, motor activity, affect, mood, cognition, perception, thoughts, behavior, insight, and judgment

  
• The mental status exam is conducted by licensed clinicians with special training in mental health
• The MSE is a key component of the psychiatric assessment and is performed as part of the initial psychiatric evaluation in outpatient and inpatient settings
• The MSE helps identify a patient's potential for violent or suicidal behavior and establish a safe environment for the patient
• Alterations in a patient's mental status can be among the first clinical indications of a neurologic problem
• The MSE evaluates the patient's appearance, behavior, speech, mood, affect, sensorium, cognition, and thought patterns
• Red flags during the MSE include acute agitation, aggression, or verbalizations of homicidal or suicidal thoughts, which require immediate psychiatric assessment and constant supervision
• During the MSE, it is important to assess the patient's coping ability, appearance, behavior, speech, mood, affect, sensorium, cognition, and thought patterns
• Psychosocial assessment involves a thorough evaluation of an individual patient's physical, mental, and emotional health, along with their ability to function within a community and their perception of themselves
• Psychosocial assessment includes interviews, questionnaires, review of relevant records, and observation of the client's appearance, behavior, and communication style
• Eco Map is a structural diagram of a client's important relationships with people, groups, and organizations, identifying resources available in the client's community
• Genogram is a pictorial display of a person's family relationships and medical history, going beyond a traditional family tree to visualize hereditary patterns and psychological factors
• Psychological adaptation to physical illness involves a complex process of adaptation that is less understood compared to physical adaptation
• Psychosocial adaptation involves both psychological and social aspects, relating social conditions to mental health
• Psychosocial assessment factors include social history, level of stress, and normal coping patterns
• Self-awareness leads to self-disclosure, which leads to feedback, creating an ongoing process that helps individuals learn and grow
• The image depicts 9 different hand gestures in American Sign Language (ASL) for words like "yes", "no", "thank you", "hello", "I love you", "goodbye", "you are welcome", "please", and "sorry"

  
• The Shannon-Weaver model of communication describes how information is transmitted from a source to a receiver through a channel, involving components like source, message, channel, receiver, and feedback

  
• Therapeutic communication involves giving and receiving information to influence behavior, leading to successful outcomes in nursing interventions
• Therapeutic communication is a mutual learning and corrective emotional experience for the client, aiming to help the client grow
• The general goal of nurse-client interaction in therapeutic communication is to facilitate insight and behavioral change in the client
• Therapeutic communication helps in problem-solving, clarifying areas of conflict and anxiety, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and promoting self-acceptance and self-respect
• Types of therapeutic communication include verbal communication like sign language and non-verbal communication involving vocal cues, action cues, object cues, space, and touch
• Characteristics of therapeutic communication include responsive dimensions like genuineness, respect, empathy, and concreteness, as well as action dimensions like confrontation, immediacy, nurse-self disclosure, emotional catharsis, and role-playing