Information Package / Course Catalogue
Creating Theropotic Mileu in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing
Course Code: HRS533
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

The purpose is to gain skills of creation and assessment therapeutic environment, provide information about the therapeutic properties of the environment.

Course Content

This lesson including therapeutic environment, the media in creating a therapeutic environment and therapeutic interventions, nursing responsibilities.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.To know the diagnosis and the development of a therapeutic environment.
2.To evaluate the therapeutic environment.
3.Create structured environment for formation of a therapeutic environment.
4.Balancing of features to provide a therapeutic environment.
5.Making therapeutic interventions used in (Patient education, spiritual intervention, personal, and sleep hygiene management, behavior therapy)
6.Understanding the role of the media creating a therapeutic psychiatric nurse.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Birckhead LM. Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. JB. Lippincott Company, Pennsylvania, 1989.
2.Carson VB, Arnold EN. Mental Health Nursing. Saunders Company, London, 1996.
3.Cook JJ, Fontaine KL. Essentials of Mental Health Nursing. Addison-Wesley, California, 1991.
4.Fortinash KM, Holoday-Worret PA. Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. Mosby Company, Boston, 1996.
5.Janosik EH, Davies JL. Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. Second Edition, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, United States of America, 1989.
6.Johnson BS. Adaptation and Growth Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. Lippincott Company, Newyork, 1997.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Development of the concept of a therapeutic environment
Week 2 - Theoretical
Evaluation of the therapeutic environment
Week 3 - Theoretical
Therapeutic components of the environment
Week 4 - Theoretical
Participants in the therapeutic environment
Week 5 - Theoretical
The therapeutic properties of the environment and security / safety
Week 6 - Theoretical
Structured therapeutic environment features of the environment
Week 7 - Theoretical
The therapeutic properties of the environment norms
Week 8 - Theoretical
Limits the therapeutic properties of the environment (Midterm Exam)
Week 9 - Intermediate Exam
Equilibrium properties of the therapeutic environment
Week 10 - Theoretical
The therapeutic properties of the media flexibility / variability
Week 11 - Theoretical
Using interventions at therapeutic environment (Patient education, spiritual intervention, personal, and sleep hygiene management, behavior therapy)
Week 12 - Theoretical
Using interventions at therapeutic environment (Patient education, spiritual intervention, personal, and sleep hygiene management, behavior therapy)
Week 13 - Theoretical
Creating a therapeutic environment of psychiatric nurse role
Week 14 - Theoretical
Creating a therapeutic environment of psychiatric nurse role
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination2%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory142256
Midterm Examination210428
Final Examination118220
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)104
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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