Background: Psychiatric/mental health nursing is one of the core courses for undergraduate nursing students, but the complex and abstract nature of much of the psychiatric mental health course content makes it a challenge for many students. The aim was to examine the relationship between academic stress and self-control among faculty of nursing students. Descriptive co-relational design was utilized to achieve the aim of the study. This study was carried out at Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University. A convenient sample of 180 students selected from the previous selected setting. Three tools were used for data collection (tool one): A structured interviewing questionnaire to assess socio-demographic characteristics of the students as age, gender, residence and parent's education, (tool two): Nursing education stress scale (academic stress subscale), (tool three): Selfcontrol scale. Results: There was a highly statistically significant relationship between academic stress and selfcontrol among faculty of nursing students. Conclusion: It was concluded that there was a highly statistically significant negative correlation between academic stress and self-control among faculty of nursing students. Recommendations: Stress management technique, behavioral therapy techniques, assertiveness training technique and mindfulness training should be given to the student to help them relive their academic stress and disturbed levels of self-control.

Background: Internship nursing student's mental health was typically poor during the epidemic, particularly anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorders which should be handled with assistance and intervention. This study was aimed to evaluate the effect of Dialectical behavior therapy -based intervention on the psychological impacts of Covid-19 among internship nursing students. Method: A total of 260 Internship Nursing Students (Study group) were received a dialectical behavior therapy intervention session for four weeks. This group was compared with 260 Internship Nursing Students (Control group) without (DBT) intervention sessions. Tool one A structured Interviewing Questionnaire, Tool two: Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Tool three: Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale, and Tool four: The Impact of Event Scale (IES) were used in this study. This study was carried out at the Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University. A quasiexperimental research design two groups (Study and control group) was utilized. Results: There were no significant differences in total score of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress subscales between the study and control group before the (DBT) intervention sessions while after the (DBT) intervention sessions the study group's anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress total scores were significantly lower than the control group. Conclusion: During the epidemic prevention and control, dialectical behavior therapy can successfully decrease the anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress of the Internship Nursing students. Recommendations: DBT therapy may be implemented in the future in school psychological counselling to help college students cope with unpleasant emotions. Furthermore, it can aid in the regulation of emotions and better satisfy the psychological demands of medical and nursing students as well as college psychological counselling development needs.

Background:Clinical training has been recognized as a stressful experience for nursing students. Psychiatric/ mental health nursing is one of the core courses for undergraduate nursing students, but the complex and abstract nature of much of the psychiatric mental health course content makes it a challenge for many students. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing intervention on clinical training stress and self-control among faculty of nursing students. A quasi-experimental research design two groups (experimental and control group) was used to achieve the aim of the study. This study was carried out at Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University. A convenient sample of 180 students selected from the previous selected setting who had clinical training stress and disturbed levels of self-control. Three tools were used for data collections (1): A structured interviewing questionnaire to assess socio-demographic characteristics of the students, (2): Nursing education stress scale (clinical training stress subscale), (3): Self-control scale. The results revealed that there was a significant reduction on the levels of clinical training stress and improvement of self-control levels in the experimental group after application of nursing intervention than control group. Based on this result it was concluded that nursing intervention had a great effect in reducing the levels of clinical training stress and increasing the levels of self-control among faculty of nursing students. Recommendations: Generalize the application of nursing intervention to all college students to reduce their clinical training stress and increase their self-control.

Background: For individual living with schizophrenia, music therapy will help them to overcome deficits in coping skills and provide them with the important skills to be able to deal proficiently with daily hassles, solve life challenges and stressors and promote their coping. Aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of receptive music therapy on stress and coping strategies among patients with schizophrenia. Subjects and Method: Setting of the study:The study was conducted at inpatients ward at the Psychiatric and Mental Health Hospital in Meet-khalf at Menoufia that affiliated by the Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt. Subjects: A convenience sample of patients with schizophrenia (50 patients). Tools of the study: -Tool (1): Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics structured Interview Questionnaire. Tool (II): Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and Tools (III): The Brief COPE Inventory. Results:The findings of the study revealed that, there was a highly statistically significant reduction in perceived stress post receptive music therapy. Also, there was a highly statistically significant improving in coping strategies post receptive music therapy. Conclusion: It was concluded that receptive music therapy proved to be effective on decreasing perceived stress and improving coping strategies among patients .with schizophrenic. Recommendation: Receptive music therapy should be provided as intervention for patients with mental illness.