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Promoting object constancy. Writing as a nursing intervention
1Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas.
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
|January 1, 1991
Summary
Achieving object constancy is crucial for psychiatric patients. Writing down thoughts and feelings helps reinforce self-experience, promoting autonomy and independence in managing emotions.
Area of Science:
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Nursing
Background:
- Object constancy is a key developmental milestone often underdeveloped in psychiatric patients.
- Lack of object constancy can impede autonomous relationships and emotional self-management.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore how writing interventions can foster object constancy in psychiatric patients.
- To provide a framework for nurses utilizing writing for therapeutic goals.
Main Methods:
- The study focuses on the nursing intervention of having patients write down thoughts and feelings.
- An object relations framework is proposed to guide the use of writing.
Main Results:
- Writing reinforces a continuous self-experience, a prerequisite for object constancy.
- This intervention aids patients in becoming more autonomous and independent in managing their internal states.
Conclusions:
- Writing is a valuable nursing intervention for developing object constancy.
- An object relations framework enhances the therapeutic focus and effectiveness of writing for psychiatric patients.