Behavioural emergencies Flashcards
What is a behavioural emergency?
Can be defined as an abnormal health behaviour that threatens an individual’s health and safety, or the health and safety of others
Anxiety
A mental state in fear and apprehension are the dominant moods
Acute stress
A short term response to a traumatic event
If it doesn’t resolve, turns into PTSD
Should last around one month
Generalized anxiety
Triggers are not due to any specific thing
Most common type of anxiety
How do you get diagnosed for generalized anxiety?
Symptoms must be present for more than not for 6 months
PTSD
Severe anxiety that stands from a traumatic event
Starts with acute stress and over one month turns into PTSD
Phobias
Unreasonable, firn, apprehension, or dread of a pacific situation or thing
Like clowns
Panic disorder
Involves repeated unexpected panic attacks
Anxiety attacks
Similar to panic attacks, but have a trigger
Anxiety and panic attack symptoms
Chest pain, shortness of breath, palpations, nausea, lightheadedness, sweating, tachycardia, fast, breathing, tingling, sensations, carpal spasms, and syncope
Treatment for anxiety and panic symptoms
12/4 lead
Sample
Calm tone
Body language
Coach breathing as increase CO2 can equal Carpell spasms
Als backup for benzos
Social anxiety disorder
A disorder in which every day social interactions can bring up a feeling of anxiety, self consciousness, or fear of embarrassment
Clinical depression (gas pipes )
Guilt
Appetite changes
Sleep disturbance
Paying attention
Interests
Psychomotor abnormalities
Energy loss
Suicide, thoughts
Suicidal ideations
Becalm
Consider RCMP for a form 10
Ask if they have a plan
Mania
Abnormally, happy elevated or irritable, racing thoughts fast beach no need for sleep impulsive recklessness
Bipolar disorder
Type 1&2
Characterized by extreme mood swings
Bipolar one has more frequent mania over a long duration
Bipolar two has depression dominant
Psychosis
A state of delusion in which the individual is out of touch with reality
Schizophrenia
A complex disorder that is neither easily defined or easily treated
Hallucinations
Delusional disorder
Illness, causing beliefs of delusions, which are not based in reality
Like being followed, being poisoned
Delerium
A condition causing confusion, disordered, and Tatian, and reduced awareness of their surrounding
Excited delirium
Is bad
Without medical interventions, patient can die
Violent/bizarre behaviour insensitivity to pain, increase strength, and increased endurance
Usually drug related
Antisocial, personality disorder
A chronic pattern of behaviour that ignores the rights and feelings of others no regard to others, and what is wrong and right
Bulimia
A pattern of eating where they consume large amounts of food in short periods of time, bingeing
Followed by purging, which is vomiting
Anorexia
It’s a little that they become dangerously underweight
