Chapter 4 Flashcards
Beliefs and thoughts often observed in individuals who are suffering from psychotic episodes due to schizophrenia, dementia, a manic episode, or substance intoxication. These beliefs have no basis in reality.
delusions
when services are provided in an emergency setting, such as a hospital to people with serious suicide attempts, life-threatening, substance-abuse conditions, vegetative, depression, psychosis, violence, or other rapid changes in behavior.
Emergency psychiatry
A term used to describe individuals who are unable to care for their own personal needs such as food, shelter, and clothing due to a mental disorder.
Gravely disabled
False sensory perceptions. Auditory hallucinations are associated with schizophrenia; visual and tactile ones with substance abuse withdrawal; and gustatory and old factory ones with organic brain disorders. Any hallucination is indicative of severe illness; when hallucinations are present, doctor should be consulted.
Hallucinations
Clients who have a plan, the means, and the intent to complete suicide; they cannot be talked out of harming themselves. Hospitalization is often indicated for such clients.
High risk suicidal clients
detaining clients against their will in a psychiatric facility for evaluation and observation when they have been deemed a danger to themselves or others, or our gravely disabled because of a mental disorder
Involuntary hospitalization
client who pondered never attempted suicide. These clients have adequate support systems and can usually be treated as outpatient. Therapy and educational interventions are encouraged.
Low risk, suicidal clients
the actual physical, implement, pills, or action that suicidal person uses to kill himself for herself.
Means
a structured observing and interviewing client to assess for possible psychotic states.
Mental status exam
clients who have been thinking about suicide and field depressed. These clients probably still have some hope, but they might also have a suicide plan. A no suicide contract works as well for such person as does a suicide watch. Crisis intervention should be intense and frequent.
Middle risk, suicidal clients
intentionally causing tissue damage to oneself without desiring to kill ones
Non-suicidal self injury or self mutilative behavior
an American American pioneer in the field of suicide created the first suicide prevention center and hotline in Los Angeles.
Norman L Farberow
a formal written or verbal contract between the client and the crisis worker in which the client makes a commitment to speak to the counselor before harming himself for herself. It is considered an effective intervention for low and middle risk clients
No suicide contract
a blueprint for action that clients have devised for themselves.
Plan
in which the client is out of touch with reality and show symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. This often happens when a schizophrenic patient stop taking a medication or at the beginning of a person’s first schizophrenic episode. The state can also be associated with bipolar disorder and paranoid disorders. This person usually requires in voluntary hospitalization.
Psychotic decompensation
