Chapter 23 Behavioral Health Emergencies Flashcards
The basic activities, a person usually accomplishes during a normal day, such as eating dressing and bathing
Activities of daily living
A change in the way a person thinks, and behaves that may signal disease in central nervous system or elsewhere in the body
Altered mental status
How a person functions or ask in response to his or her environment
Behavior
The point at which a person’s reactions to events interfere with activities of daily living. This becomes a psychiatric emergency when it causes a major life interruptions, such as attempted suicide.
Behavioral crisis
An emergency in which abnormal behavior, friends, a persons, own health and safety, or health and safety of other person
Behavioral health emergency
A persistent mood of sadness despair and discouragement could be a symptom of many different, mental and physical disorders
Depression
A serious behavioral condition in which a person exhibits agitated behavior combined with disorientation hallucinations or delusions
Excited delirium
A disorder in which there is no known psychologic reason for abnormal functioning of an organ or organ system
Functional disorder
Temporary or permanent dysfunction of the brain caused by disturbance in physical or psychological functioning of brain tissue
Organic brain syndrome
Restriction of chest wall, movements, and or airway obstruction can lead to sudden death
Positional asphyxia
A delayed reaction to a prior incident
Post traumatic stress disorder
An illness with psychological or behavioral symptoms, and or impairment in functioning, caused by a social, psychological, genetic physical chemical or biological disturbance
Psychiatric disorder
A mental disorder characterized by the loss of contact with reality
Psychosis
A complex difficult to identify mental disorder, whose onset typically occurs during early adulthood symptoms, including delusion, hallucinations, and lack of interest, pleasure, and erratic speech
Schizophrenia
