This course provides nursing students an opportunity to deal directly with clients who suffer from emotional and mental disorders and receiving care in psychiatric care settings (inpatient & outpatient) where students can assess these clients and the resulting behavior exhibited by them by utilizing nursing process in planning and providing nursing care for those individuals based on knowledge gained from biological, social, psychological sciences as well as humanities and nursing. Student’s clinical experience will be provided in hospitals, community and day care centres, rendering services to patients with mental health and psychiatric problems and their families. Skills and attitudes of students will be enhanced in caring for patients receiving various therapeutic treatments.Students deal with clients by demonstrating high skills in therapeutic communication whether with individuals or in groups. Also, students help in maintaining therapeutic environment and work with clients in helping them to select the best coping methods to deal with life stressors as well as working with mental and social health team in helping those clients when using different modalities in psychiatric treatment and helping them and their families to retain and maintain optimal level of mental health to go back to community to live as normal as possible.
