Chapter 3: The Person who is Anxious
Overview:
- Describes anxiety and how to recognise it
- Explains how to plan a caring interventions
- Describes how to reduce anxiety
Description:
This chapter instructs readers on how to recognise the physical, emotional and behavioural impacts of anxiety, appreciate how your own anxiety can impact on others, understand the undesirable effects of high levels of anxiety and to value and use the Solution-focused Behavioural Change Model when planning interventions with people who are very anxious.
Topics:
- Learning objectives
- Chapter references
- Introduction
- What is anxiety?
- Learning activity 3.1 — Anxiety self-awareness
- Caring interventions
- Learning activity 3.2 — The assessment interview
- Learning activity 3.3 — The amputee
- Using the solution-focused behavioral change model
- Your own case study
- Conclusion
- Chapter summary
Speaker / Author:
Bernadette Keane
Bernadette is a highly experienced nurse educator who lectured for nine years in the psychiatric nursing programs conducted at Royal Park Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to psychiatry her clinical background and qualifications include medical, surgical, midwifery and infant welfare areas of care. In 1982, as a Kellogg Nursing Fellow, she studied at the University of California, San Francisco. Since then she has published journal articles and textbook chapters on health care and professional issues. In 1986 Bernadette launched her private practice, called Continuing Education Consultation, and from 1992 to 1998 she was president of the association called Nurses in Independent Practice. In 1992, together with Rhonda Goodwin and Jennifer Richmond, Bernadette published a nursing history book entitled Mum and Me and T.L.C.
Carolyn Dixon
Carolyn was, from 1995 to early 1999, the psychiatric clinical nurse consultant in the emergency department of St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Her work there began as a project to study the effectiveness of this innovative role. Carolyn is a trained psychiatric and general nurse who has worked in hospital, education and community settings both in Australia and overseas. It was while she was working as a nurse teacher at Royal Park Hospital in Melbourne that she first worked with Bernadette Keane. Carolyn has presented a number of conference papers on aspects of psychiatric care. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts (Social Science), a Graduate Diploma in Health Education and a Master of Nursing.
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