Chapter 41 Flashcards
Mental Health Disorders
If a person mentions or talks about suicide, what should you do?
Do not leave the person alone, call for the nurse at once
Agencies treating persons with mental health disorders must take what measures? (4)
- Identify specific factors or features that increase or decrease the risk for suicide
- Meet the person’s immediate safety needs
- Provide the most appropriate settings to treat the person
- Provide crisis information to the person and family. Crisis hotline phone number
What is addiction?
Chronic disease involving substance-seeking behaviors and use that is compulsive and hard to control despite the harmful effects
What does alcohol dependence involve?
- Craving
- Loss of control
- Physical dependence
- Tolerance
What is withdrawal syndrome?
Is the physical and mental response after stopping or severely reducing the use of a substance that was used regularly
A person trying to cut down or stop using the substance is a sign of?
Addiction
________ are a strong painkiller that cause drowsiness. Some can cause intense feeling of well-being, happiness, excitement, and joy
Opiates and other narcotics
________ is the most severe form of substance use disorder
Addiction
What is antisocial personality disorder?
A person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights and safety of others
Setting fires and animal cruelty during childhood are often seen in?
Antisocial personality disorders
Flattering and manipulating others for personal gain or pleasure is a symptom of?
Antisocial personality disorder
Being witty and charming and repeatedly breaking the law are symptoms of?
Antisocial personality disorder
What is borderline personality disorder?
Person has long-term pattern of unstable moods, behaviors, and emotions. Long-term patterns of unstable or explosive emotions
To protect yourself from the patient, what three things should you do?
- Call for help, do not try to handle situation yourself
- Keep a safe distane between you and the person
- Be aware of your setting, do not let person block your exit
Personality disorders can affect what things in your life?
- Interfere with daily life
- Cause problems at school or work
- Cause problems in relationships
What is delusions of grandeur?
Exaggerated beliefs about one’s importance, fame, wealth, power, or talents
What is delusional persecution?
False beliefs that one is being mistreated, abused, or harassed
What’s another name for mood disorders?
Affective disorders
What are two examples of mood disorders?
- Bipolar
- Depression
T/F: Depression is a normal part of aging
FALSE
What is psychosis?
Describes a condition that affects the mind and causes a loss of contact with reality. Disconnection from reality
What are two symptoms of psychosis?
Delusions, hallucinations
What disorder causes psychosis?
Schizophrenia
What is OCD?
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Occurs when a person has reaccuring thoughts, behaviors, or both that cannot be controlled
Age of onset for schizophrenia is between __ and __
16 and 30
What is scizophrenia?
Serious brain illness affecting how a person, thinks, feels, and behaves
What is agoraphobia?
Fear of open, crowded or public place
Whatis mysophobia?
Fear of uncleanliness
What is panic?
Intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, or dread
What actions can help during panic attacks?
- Help the person to a quiet area
- Stay with the person and remain calm
- Speak in short, simple sentences
- Talk the person through deep-breathing exercises
_____ and _____ _____ may help relieve anxiety
Coping and defense mechanisms
Mental health involves a person’s?
Emotional, psychological, and social well-being
What can mental health affect? (6)
How a person:
* Thinks
* Feels
* Acts when coping with life
* Handle stress
* Relates to others
* Makes choices
What are the 10 defense mechanisms?
- Compensation
- Conversion
- Denial
- Displacement
- Identification
- Projection
- Rationalization
- Reaction formation
- Regression
- Repression
A person is not good at sports, so they develop another talent, what defense mechanism is this?
Compensation
A child is not wanting to read outloud, so they complain of a headache, what defense mechanism is this?
Conversion
A person ignores pain and refuses to see a doctor, what defense mechanism is this?
Denial
You are angry at your boss, so you yell at your friend, what defense mechanism is this?
Displacement
A person is fearing rejection, so they act differently around peers, what defense mechanism is this?
Identification
Not understanding a lesson, a student thinks: “the teacher does not understand it enough to teach it well”, what coping mechanism is this?
Projection
A student did not study and failed the test. The student thinks “I failed because I wasn’t feeling well”, what defense mechanism is this?
Rationalization
A worker does not like the boss, the worker gives the boss a gift, what defense mechanism is this?
Reaction formation
A 3-year old wants a baby bottle when a new baby arrives, what coping mechanism is this?
Regression
A child was sexually abused. Now 33 years old, there is no memory of the event, what coping mechanism is this?
Repression
T/F: Depression can make an illness worse
True
T/F: Bipolar can be passed down through family members
True
Anxiety level depends on the ________
Stressor
__________ can be unexpected or brought on by a trigger
Panic attack
GAD occurs most days for at least __ months
6 months
What does GAD stand for?
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
_______ has extreme anxiety, fear, or worry
GAD
A person has to worry about concern about many things such as health, work, and social situations. What disorder this?
GAD
Hand-washing, counting, checking on things, cleaning, hoarding, and doing things in a certain order are all examples of?
Compulsion
A person has obsessive thoughts about microbes and dirt, this is an example of?
Obsession
An _______ is frequent, upsetting, and unwanted thought, idea, or image
Obsession
A ________ is the over-whelming urge to repeat certain rituals, acts, or behaviors
Compulsion
What is delusion?
False beliefs
__________ is false beliefs that one is being mistreated, abused, or harassed
Delusions of persecution
What are the two types of delusions?
Grandeur & persecution
________ is the set of attitudes, values, behaviors, and traits of a person
Personality
What are commonly used substances?
Narcotics, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, marijuana
Relationship problems and impulsive actions often result from ___________ disorder
Borderline personality disorder
