Emotional Well-being: A Psychiatric Nursing Overview

Abstract

Emotional well-being is a multidimensional construct essential to mental health, encompassing the ability to recognize, manage, and express emotions while maintaining resilience and a positive life outlook. This review explores the significance of emotional well-being within psychiatric nursing, highlighting its core components—self-awareness, self-regulation, resilience, and optimism—and the biological, psychological, and social factors influencing it. Psychiatric nurses play a pivotal role in promoting emotional well-being through therapeutic communication, psychoeducation, assessment, and interventions such as mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral support, and crisis management. The review also addresses common psychiatric disorders impacting emotional health and emphasizes the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration, family involvement, and addressing challenges like stigma and burnout. Emerging trends, including trauma-informed care and technology-based interventions, are discussed to enhance nursing practice. This overview underscores the necessity of integrating emotional well-being into psychiatric nursing education and clinical care to improve patient outcomes and foster holistic mental health recovery.