NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 39: Mental Health Assessment and Therapeutic Communication: Techniques That Work and Blocks to Avoid

Sarah Mitchell teaches the mental status exam component by component, then demonstrates the therapeutic techniques and the non-therapeutic blocks that decide most psychosocial questions. She explains the four phases of the nurse patient relationship, transference, countertransference, boundaries, milieu and group therapy roles, and cultural considerations, with two worked best-response scenarios built on the rule of acknowledging the feeling first.

Lesson 39 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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