Exam 3 Flashcards
During which of the cycles of violence does the abuser release their
buildup tensions by brutal beating?
Acute battering stage
The honeymoon stage is characterized by
loving and kind behavior and promises
never to repeat the behavior.
The tension-building stage is
characterized by minor incidents by the abuser
of pushing or shoving.
The acute battering stage would be when
the abuser releases their buildup tensions
by brutal beatings.
What is the risk of prescribing SSRIs for a patient with epilepsy?
Lower seizure threshold. SSRIs may interact with antiepileptics. They can lower the seizure threshold. This risk should be considered in patients who also suffer from epilepsy.
There are several criteria for involuntary outpatient commitment
Some of the criteria includes:
a) history of repeated decompensation that needs involuntary treatment.
b) without treatment the patient’s health will deteriorate resulting in hospitalization
c) persistence of the mental disease without awareness that it is affecting them.
If the patient on lithium is experiencing such symptoms as sweating or diarrhea,
they may experience a rise in their lithium levels. This could potentially call for a temporary reduction in their dosage.
If a patient is at risk of repeated victimization from being in an abusive relationship, what is the first step that the nurse practitioner needs to assist the patient in doing?
The nurse practitioner has an obligation to report abuse. Patients at risk of being victimized again should be encouraged to report the abuse themselves. The nurse practitioner may also assist with taking steps to ensure the patient’s safety.
Clients who are committed are still
capable of participating in healthcare decision
if an adult is ruled incompetent by a court
a guardian is appointed to make decisions on the person’s behalf.
What will increase the clearance of benzodiazepine?
Smoking increases the metabolic rate.
This will increase clearance of benzodiazepines.
Patients who smoke need to be monitored carefully
When a person exhibits a clinically significant response to a pill containing a therapeutically inert substance this is known as which of the following?
When a person exhibits a clinically significant response to a pill containing a therapeutically inert substance this is known as the placebo effect.
Placebo effects are not limited to subjective reports; physiologic functions may be objectively influenced.
The Community Mental Health Centers Act supported which of the following mental healthcare delivery systems?
The CMHC Act passed by Congress in 1963 supported mental health centers and deinstitutionalization in all 50 states.
It represented a shift from the focus of the mentally ill in public mental hospitals to flexible, community care in an ambulatory setting.
There are six standards of practice.
They include:
- assessment,
- diagnosis,
- outcome identification
- planning
- implementation
- evaluation.
Antidepressant medication (SSRI) is more helpful in treating
bulimia than anorexia.
According to the dyadic interpersonal communication model
communication is a dynamic interaction that consists of a source, who has a purpose that is understandable to another person, and an encoder, who is able to understand the meaning of the message.
The message is processed and decoded and understood by the recipient, or decoder
Which of the drugs may cause a false positive cocaine result in lab tests?
Amoxicillin–Amoxicillin may cause a false positive result for cocaine in lab tests.
Most antibiotics and NSAIDs have the same effect.
Persons with mental illness are guaranteed the same rights under federal and state laws as any other citizen. Things such as the right to vote, the right to receive a driver’s license, and the right to religious freedom and practice are known as:
Civil Rights
Circumstantiality is a thought and speech process in which an individual
digresses into unnecessary details and inappropriate unrelated thought while trying to express a central idea.
Which tic disorder can possibly start at the age of 13, wax and wane, include multiple motor and vocal tics, and not be tied to physical disorders?
Tourette’s Disorder
When you communicate in a way that limits the focus on or understanding of the opinions, values, or beliefs of others, you are using which of the following?
Aggressive communicators make decisions for themselves and others with the intent of always coming out the winner. Aggressive individuals want their needs met exclusively and immediately using manipulative tools to do this.
Culture-bound syndromes are
specific mental behaviors related to a person’s culture and not linked to a psychiatric disorder.
What would be an appropriate question to ask during a risk assessment to determine if a patient has suicidal ideation?
Do you have a plan?
What are diagnostic criteria for dissociative fugue?
The predominant disturbance is sudden, unexpected travel away from home with the inability to recall one’s past.
There is confusion about personal identity or assumption of a new identity.
The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning
Natural law is based upon the theory .
“do good and avoid evil.”
What causes depression and pain to be reduced by using breathing to focus on the present moment?
Mindfulness meditation is thousands of years old. It teaches the practitioner to live in the moment. Breathing guides the meditation.
Natural law is based on the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.
It states that a person’s ethics must be grounded in the concern for human good
Trust-mistrust
the oral-sensory stage 1.
Industry-inferiority
the latency stage 4.
Identity-role confusion
adolescence stage 5.
Generalized anxiety disorder is an anxiety that has
the nature and focus of worry shift frequently. The symptoms seem to come and go. No clear link exists between the anxiety and life events or stressors. The person finds it very hard to control the anxiety.
A specific anxiety disorder indicated by excessive worry, apprehension or anxiety about a range of life stresses that occur more days than not for a period of at least 6 months is:
Dysthymic disorder is similar to MDD but with
less acute symptoms; one of which is less discrete episodes of illness than MDD. Symptoms often go undetected and therefore untreated for years.
Stereognosis is the ability
to perceive and recognize the form of an object in the absence of visual and auditory information, by using tactile information to provide cues from texture, size, spatial properties, and temperature, etc.
Stereognosis tests determine whether or not which part of the brain is intact?
the parietal lobe of the brain is intact.
The type of service that provides structure and offers therapeutic activities to patients who come to the program one or more days per week is called a(n):
Day programs provide structure and offer therapeutic activities to patients who come to the program one or more days per week. Services include social skills training, social contact and peer support.
