Mindbody Health Can Be Broad or Narrow in Scope
At its broadest, it simply assumes that our physical health is inseparable from our mental and emotional health.
At its narrowest, many frameworks are applicable to mindbody health: stress response and general adaptation syndrome (Selye), psychoneuroimmunology, psychopharmacology, psychosomatic, tension myositis syndrome (Sarno), development (Erikson, Piaget), therapeutic communication, therapeutic touch, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, social work, spirituality, religion, massage, etc.
It’s the holistic approach to health, and this, in itself, can be controversial and polarizing.
At a very simplistic level, how we experience our lives is merely the sum of various physiological mindbody processes of perceiving and processing stimuli from within and without.
Beliefs, attitudes, and values are key components of mindbody perception and processing that affect and effect our decisions, actions, and, ultimately, our health, our human societies, and our environment.
Go Student Nurse Mindbody Category
Many Go Student Nurse articles will be listed in a category called Mindbody that focuses on these very simple personal beliefs, attitudes, and values that can have a profound influence on how we experience nursing school, nursing, or life.
These articles will be written because nursing can be very difficult emotionally and physically for many nursing students and nurses.
Go Student Nurse will not utilize any particular mindbody framework except to assume that our physical health is inseparable from our mental and emotional health.
Go Student Nurse does not purport to diagnose, treat, or provide any medical advice for any type of physical or mental illness. Go Student Nurse should only be used for informational purposes. If you have a health problem or concern, you should consult an appropriate health care provider for medical advice, diagnosis, and treatment.
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