Chapter 21-25 Flashcards
What risk factors are in influence the incident of mental health?
Genetic biological and environmental
What connotes mental health?
It is shaped by social norms, that evolve from generation to generation
What does the western culture think of mental illness?
Any deviation of normative functions of the senses is indicative of a psychotic disorder
What is the definition of mental health?
 There’s no universally accepted definition
Widely excepted parameters, for what behaviors can note psychopathology must be used to measure mental illness in a population, incident, morbidity, and mortality
Who developed a standardized measurement for the diagnostic criteria to describe mental illnesses?
American psychiatric Association created the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, the DSM five
What is the leading cost of disability worldwide?
Psychiatric disorders
Every year how much of the worlds population suffers from a major mental illness
1/3
In what country threes is the projected lifetime risk of developing a major mental illness highest
Where the population is subject to sustained violence
What causes fragmentation in the in the delivery of mental health and prevent money from receiving of appropriate care
Stigma surrounding diagnosis and inequities in mental health benefits
Who has the highest rate of unmeet psychiatric care?
Elderly
People in rural areas
Ethnic minorities
What are some social consequences of failure to identify and treat mental illness?
Truancy
Incarceration
Addiction
Unplanned pregnancy
Poverty
Suicide
What are the major mental disorders grouped in?
Thought disorder
Mood disorder
Anxiety disorder
Further complicated by substance-abuse dementia and medical conditions
Who is at a high risk population for mental illness?
Unemployed, poor and homeless, have higher levels of depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and substance abuse
Why has the number of mentally ill clients who are homeless steadily increased in the US?
The government embarked on a systemic plan to deinstitutionalized the mentally ill
What are implications of an increased risk for schizophrenia?
Monozygotic twins
Pregnancy complications
Viral infection
Early childhood stress
Head injury
Cannabis abuse
When do symptoms of schizophrenia typically appear
Late adolescence, or young adulthood persist throughout life, causing significant impairment
What are some symptoms of schizophrenia?
Sleep disturbances, anxiety, irritability, deterioration in the role functioning, depressed mood, social withdrawal, poor concentration, suspiciousness, loss of motivation, and perceptual disturbances
What is the theory of early intervention?
Is that repeated episodes of psychosis are toxic to the brain they produced debilitating cognitive effects in early intervention, may minimize the effects
How can one have an early intervention program for the first episode of psychosis?
Mitigating the chronic
Debilitating course
Improve long-term outcomes
Identify those at risk
What is early intervention programs, and for the first episode of psychosis
Specialized teams of professionals whose primary goal is to maintain the individuals, current level of educational and vocational functioning through early treatment
What is the intervention program goal in the first episode of psychosis?
Enhancing treatment, adherence and schizophrenia
What is the most common factor associated with relapse and reoccurrence of a psychotic symptoms?
Non-adherence to medication
What are some nursing interventions to enhance medication adherence
Tertiary interventions to educate regarding medication and their side effects
What are some early interventions for someone experiencing their first episode of psychosis
Second generation antipsychotics
Psychotherapies psychoeducation, cognitive, behavioral therapy, family therapy
Why is early intervention of the first episode of psychosis important
Essential to minimize, social disruptions characteristics of schizophrenia, dropping out of school or life, withdrawal from family and friends, in loss of work
What is the role of community mental health teams in treatment of schizophrenia?
To address shortcomings in the delivery of care community and mental health teams coordinate both psychosocial and psychological needs by using therapies to enhance recovery from mental illness
What are some examples of teams outpatient services that help alleviate the daily burden of care for families in the community that helped in mental health?
Respite services
Day treatment, facilities
Sheltered workshops
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What are some social factors that play a significant prominent role in mood and anxiety disorders?
Trauma mood and substance disorder social isolation, family, and social cohesion
What ranks is one of the top causes of preventable diseases?
Suicide
What is the worldwide second leading cause of death?
Adolescent suicide
 in the US does MVA as the leading cause of death
Suicide
Who has the highest risk of suicide?
Two times higher in men, retired, divorced, white males
What is self harming cutting and burning in adolescent girls?
A fry for help
Almost half adolescence use what to complete suicides
Fire your arms
What is a mandated warning on anti-depress?
Black box
Increase risk of suicidal thinking, and behavior and channel children in adolescence
What is the risk in channel child or adolescent with mood and anxiety disorders?
Balance the risk of increased suicide and the clinical need
What is the NSSP?
National strategy for suicide prevention, federal government, public health initiative, widespread education, especially in schools
What are some nursing interventions for mood and anxiety disorders
Non-suicidal self injury, growing public health concern among adults
Highest risk, unemployed, women, high school, education, history of mood and anxiety or personality disorders
Ask direct questions, thoughts of harming, self, and specific plan
What are some symptoms of mood and anxiety disorders
Headache, backache, fatigue, G.I. sleep and appetite, disturbances, inability to feel pressure anhedonia
What differentiates ADHD from bipolar disorders
Persuasiveness of the symptoms and the predominant symptoms, overlap, disruptive, behaviors, and hyperactivity
What is a pharmacological treatment different in ADHD and bipolar
ADHD uses stimulants in bipolar, uses second generation, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers
What are symptoms of ADHD?
Hyperactivity, impulsivity, distractibility, and motor activity
What are symptoms of bipolar?
Predominant mood symptoms, irritable, anxiety, sleep disturbances
What is the multidisciplinary approach for a child with ADHD?
Teachers primary prescribers and therapists are all involved
The CDC estimates in the US how many children have autism
One in 50
What are public health initiatives for autism?
Screening early for prodromal symptoms in infancy to my gate, debilitating features and developmental delays
What do you have to be aware of in World War II veterans
PTSD awareness and debilitating effects on their mind
What were psychiatric hospitals like in the 1960s?
Scathing report conditions of state
Who made it viable for state to run a psych hospital?
Community mental health center act and fed initiatives