372: Mental Health Flashcards
Principles of Milieu Therapy
- Fundamental respect for individuals
- Communication opportunities
- Autonomy reinforced
- Socialization facilitated
- Part of unit management
- Responsibility and accountability
- Peer pressure to reinforce rules
- Team approach
- Group discussions and temporary seclusion’s
- Nurses promote these goals
Mental health exam (ABC STAMP LICKER)
Appearance Behaviour Cooperation Speech Thought process & content Affect Mood Perception LOC Insight Cognition Knowledge Endings Reliability
Tardive Dyskinesia
Involuntary movements of face and arms/legs related to Antipsychotic medications
Akathisia
Subjective feelings of muscular tension secondary to antipsychotic or other meds, causing restlessness, pacing, repeated sitting and standing
Lutheran’s Recovery Model (HSSE RCR)
- Hope
- Security
- Support and managing symptoms
- Empowerment
- Relationships
- Coping
- Recovery education
Personal medicine
RECOVERY + RESILIENCE
What are the principles of informed consent?
- Nature of treatment
- Expected benefits
- Material risks and side effects
- Alternative courses of action
- Consequences of not having treatment
- Respond to requests for additional info
What is the test for capacity to consent?
- UNDERSTAND information RELEVANT to decision
2. APRECIATE reasonable foreseeable CONSEQUENCES for decision or lack there of
What is the SDM Hierarchy? (CARS PB RP)
- Court-appointed guardián
- Attorney for personal care
- Representative by CCB
- Spouse, common law partner
- Parents + children
- Brothers + sisters
- Relatives by blood, marriage, adoption
- Public Guardian or trustee
What are the rules of emergency treatment without consent for an incapable person?
- There is an emergency
- Delay obtaining decision will prolong pts suffering and put at risk of serious bodily harm
- Treatment may continue until SDM is found
- If pt regains capacity, they decide
Rules for emergency treatment without consent for apparently capable person
- There is an emergency
- Required communication cannot happen due to language barrier or disability
- Reasonable steps have been taken to enable communication without success
- Delay by enabling communication will prolong suffering or risk serious bodily harm
- No reason to believe the person does not want treatment
Form 1
- MD must examine
- Conclusions may be based on combination of personal data and observations
- May sign within 7 days of exam
- Valid for 7 days
Form 2
- Justice of peace may sign Form 2
- Directs police to apprehend and take the person for Form 1 exam
- Anyone may request
4? Valid for 7 days
Form 3
- Valid for 14 days (including date of signature)
- Must be preceded by examination
- Signed regarding: voluntary or informal pts, detained on Form 1 and still within 72 hours
Form 4
- Only if pt is already on Form 3 or 4 extension
2. First form = 1 month, second = 2 months, third = 3 months, etc
Transference
Client’s unconscious projection of attitudes and feelings from past relationships onto therapist/nurse
Countertransference
Therapist/nurse unconsciously and inappropriately displaces feelings related to significant figures onto patient
Core interviewing skills for motivational interviewing
- Open questioning
- Affirm
- Reflect
- Summarize
- Informing and advising
What are the 3 components of crisis?
- Precipitating/stressful event
- Perception of event
- Usual coping methods/supports
What are the 3 components that resolution from a crisis depends on?
- Realistic perception of event
- Adequate supports
- Adequate coping mechanisms
What is the ABC Model of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?
- Activating event
- Beliefs that leads to emotions and behaviours
- Consequences
Cognitive conceptualization
Links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
CBT + Mindfulness
- For people with BPD and suicidality
- Emphasis on awareness of thoughts and actively shaping them
Intersectionality
Theory which seeks to examine socially and culturally constructed categories interact to manifest as inequalities in society
Ideological hegemony
Situation where a particular ideology is pervasively reflected throughout society, culture/organization. Located in all social institutions and permeates cultural ideas and social relationships.
Social constructionism
Our realities are shaped through our experiences and interactions with others
Goffman’s Oseas in social identity
Self-constructed notion of identity works from perspective of individual to society.
Identity is a product of interaction between self and others in social environment
Damage to social identity = stigma
What are Goffman’s key points on social identity?
- A process
- Negotiated
- Situational and contextual
- Involves membership in group
- Embeddedness of categories
What are the 5 faces of oppression?
- Exploration
- Marginalization
- Powerlessness
- Cultural imperialism
- Violence
Cultural relativism
Principle of regarding the beliefs, values, and practices of a culture from the viewpoint of that culture itself, rather than be judged against another
Syndemic
Two or more afflictions interacting synergistically to contribute to excess burden of disease in a population