Therapeutic Engagement Skills

Abstract
Mental Health Nursing is a key topic in the field of medicine that provides means on how to attend to mentally ill patients. In this essay, I have come up with the procedures on how to attend to Angelina (patient), which entails therapeutic engagement skills and therapeutic treatment modalities. Under engagement skills, I have discussed how the nurse will interact with the patient so that Angelina can share her problems with the nurse. This will help the therapist come up with a solution towards her illness. In treatment modalities, I have discussed in details the types of therapy that Angelina can be administered for and how they should be carried out for success. All these processes work in hand to achieve the better option and have to be done continuously to achieve better results.

Therapeutic Engagement Skills
Therapeutic engagement skills are one of the best widely known ways of how to solve mental problems in patients. The fact that Angelina is in the hospital, the nurse should be able to establish an understanding with her that
The first step is the Orientation Phase- the nurse and the patient get to meet, they are complete strangers to each other and most often, and this phase may always be prolonged depending on how much damage the victim has undergone. But for Angelina's case, we tend to assume she's still at the development stage, so no much damage has incurred hence we expect they get along with the nurse after a short while. The main aim of this phase is for the nurse and Angelina to establish trust on each other since what they are going to share is very confidential and should just remain between the two. So it will depend on how free Angelina will be to the nurse if she will be able to share all her issues and thoughts that have affected her of