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4013 Recognizing and responding to individuals in mental health crisis Flashcards

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Mental illness is…

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  • A diagnosed/undiagnosed illness
  • creating a problem in the areas of thoughts, emotional regulation, and/or behavior that reflects dysfunction
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______ is a dysfunction that negatively affects someone’s thoughts, emotions, and/or behaviors and interferes in their ability to live a full life in society.

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Mental illness

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What situation is not considered a mental disorder?

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A response to an extreme stressor, such as a loss, that is expected and culturally approved

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Stress created during a mental health crisis can often lead to abnormal behaviors in the mentally ill, often requiring _____.

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Law enforcement assistance

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It should be noted that someone displaying a mental illness, abnormal behavior, or in crisis, does not mean….

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They are involved in criminal activity

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What are 3 ways Generalized neurodevelopment disorder is characterized by?

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  • characterized by a lower-than-average general intellectual functioning (i.e., an IQ of approximately 70 or below).
  • two or more adaptive behaviors that affect everyday life (i.e.. cooking, cleaning, bathing, dressing).
  • requires assistance with daily activities.

(Lifelong condition - treatment but no cure)

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Ranges in severity from a handicap that somewhat limits an
otherwise normal life to a devastating disability that may require institutional care.
(Lifelong condition)

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Autism

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What may also be referred to “Elopement, Bolting, Fleeing, or Running?”
* Officers should know to ask “Has the child/adult ever run away before?”

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Wandering - Autism

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Brain Deterioration: A gradual loss of intellectual abilities.
- may have better memory of past events, seem to be living in the past.
- individual may appear lost and/or unable to recognize people
- hallucinations
- delusions

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Dementia

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What disease is an example of dementia?

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Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that affects memory, thinking and behavior Symptoms eventually grow severe enough to interfere with daily tasks

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How to interact with someone with dementia?

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  • Attempt to gain rapport
  • Approach slowly
  • Speak slowly
  • Confrontation or correcting them about time or place may prove counter-productive and should be avoided
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What are 2 recognized trauma and stress-related disorders?

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  • Acute Stress Disorder (ASD), lasts less than a month
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), lasts more than one month.
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Many _____, _____, _____, and _______ can cause behaviors that can be mistaken for mental illnesses.

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Medicines, illegal drugs, alcohol, and cannabis

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When an officer suspects an overdose or is uncertain, it is necessary to do what?

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Call emergency medical services immediately!

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Recognizing possible indicators of mental illness/abnormal behavior.
Behavioral cues can include:

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  • bodily movement (tics, pacing, agitation, sudden jerking movements, etc.).
  • lethargic, sluggish movements.
  • confusion about or unaware of their surroundings.
  • lack of or inappropriate emotional response.
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_____ is a behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric situation likely resulting in significantly reduced levels of functioning in:
* primary activities of daily living
* often resulting in placement of the recipient in a more restrictive setting (in an emergency), including but not limited to inpatient hospitalization

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Mental health crisis

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Behavior violates a norm in society, is maladaptive, is rare or unusual given the context of the culture and location and causes a person stress in their daily life.

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Abnormal/Atypical behavior

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____ is what you are seeing from the individual when you arrive on scene and interact with the individual

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Signs

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_____ are what they are telling you they are experiencing or feeling

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Symptoms

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Trouble expressing oneself in speech. Maybe eager to communicate but has difficulty finding the right word. Grammar structure is below age level.

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Expressive Language Disorder

21
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This is a disturbance in verbal fluency

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Stuttering

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Can comprehend speech, also, the person tends to have a substantial vocabulary. The disorder is apparent in the person’s speech pattern. For example, blue comes out as “bu,” and rabbit sounds like “wabbit.”

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Phonological Disorder

23
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Disability that causes
impairment of understanding and language expression

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Mixed Receptive-Expressive

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_____ occur when a person exhibits depression. bipolar disorder (Manic depression) or both in an alternating fashion

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Mood disorders

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Officer response considerations for people with Bipolar disorder:

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  • Don’t be afraid to ask if the person is suicidal
  • Don’t take the individuals mood or comments personally
  • Stick to the issue at hand
    The changes can occur SUDDENLY!
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_____ is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death.

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Suicide

27
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Examples of life situations that can lead to suicide:

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  • Death or terminal iliness of a relative or friend.
  • Divorce, separation, or the breakup of a relationship
  • Loss of health (real or imagined).
  • Loss of job, home, money, status, self-esteem, or personal security
  • Drug or alcohol misuse
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Risk factors for suicide:

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can include both the situations a person experience and how the person is feeling internally

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What are some suicide emotional and behavioral changes?

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  • Overwhelming pain.
  • Hopelessness.
  • Worthlessness, shame, guilt, or self-hatred.
  • Fear of losing control and harming themselves or others.
  • Appear sad, withdrawn, tired, apathetic, anxious, irritable, or prone to angry outbursts.
  • Not be performing well in school, work, or other activities.
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Warning signs of suicide:

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  • Previous suicide attempts.
  • Preoccupation with death.
  • Statements like, “You would be better off without me” or “I wish I were dead”
  • Development of a suicide plan, “Making out a will or giving away favorite possessions.
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Characteristics of suicide:

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  • Experiences drastic changes in behavior, loses interest in work, school, hobbies, etc.
  • Shows happiness after prolonged depression.
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______ is a serious and potentially deadly medical and physiological condition involving psychotic behavior, elevated temperature and an extreme fight-or-flight response by the nervous system.

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Excited Delirium Syndrome

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Characteristics of Excitied Delirium Syndrome:

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severe agitation, unusual strength, tolerance to significant pain and elevated body temperature.

34
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Many “in custody deaths” are linked to _____

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Excited delirium syndrome

35
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Some cases of severe _____, ______, or ______ can result in excited delirium syndrome

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Intoxication, drug abuse, or substance use disorder

36
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Scene Assessment: plan of approach

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  • Immediately identify people at the scene (when safe to do so)
  • Who are they/Can they assist?
  • Role at the scene, are they necessary (witness; bystander, etc.) or THREAT (escalation)?
  • Eliminate distractions
  • Observable behaviors upon arrival
  • Speech, movements or gestures
  • Full body assessment (WEAPONS/Hands)
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If the person is a danger to himself/herself or another person the officer should….

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Take IMMDIATE enforcement actions in order to:
* stabilize the scene/subject.
* secure the scene/subject.
RECOGNIZE THE DANGER SIGNS!
- Potential for “police assisted suicide”, violence, compliance.

38
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Rapport building is critical in most situations dealing with a person in ____

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Mental health crisis

39
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Contact with the subject:
The goal is ______ but be prepared for noncompliance

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Voluntary compliance

40
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Avoid arguing with the person if….
- the person is hallucinating
- the person is delusional

  • Do NOT get caught up in their perception of reality *
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41
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Recognize possible indicators of mental illness/abnormal behavior.

Verbal cues may include:

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  • illogical or grandiose thoughts.
  • paranoia, delusions, or hallucinations.
  • talking rapidly, excitedly, or loudly.
  • unusual speech patterns or extremely slow speech, pressured speech or not talking
  • sub-vocals; grunting or hissing
  • being argumentative, belligerent, or unreasonably hostile, threatening harm to self or others
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What are 2 things to do once the scene and subject(s) are secured?

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  1. Preserve evidence
  2. Interview witnesses
43
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The officer MUST be able to articulate why the person’s behaviors are a ______

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Danger to themselves or others

44
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A state of emotional exhaustion that results from failing, wearing out, or feeling totally used up due to too many demands on one’s energy, strength, or resources.

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Burnout

45
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Managing the scene.

Taking into Custody:

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  • Your (Officer) safety
  • Safety of others
  • Individual(s) safety
  • In-custody deaths (considerations)
46
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What is Deinstitutionalization?

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  • moved mental health patients out of state-run “insane asylums” into federally-funded community mental health centers.
  • began in the 1960’s to improve treatment for the mentally ill.
  • substantially decreased the services and “beds” available to the mentally ill.
  • served as a catalyst for the increase in crime rate and incarcerations during the 1960’s and 1970’s.
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Disposition of the individual is critical. Assistance considerations for the individual in crisis include:

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  • application of state law and agency policy
  • informal- officer, family or counselor involvement, crisis intervention
  • formal- institution or confinement based on law, agency policy and supervisory decision
  • Arrest
  • Involuntary commitment

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