General Flashcards
1
Q
Where are people with mild mental illness managed?
A
GP / primary care counselling
2
Q
Where are people with mild-moderate mental illness managed?
A
GP / IAPT
(Improving Access to Psychological Therapy - NHS service designed to offer people short-term psychological therapies)
3
Q
Where are people with moderate-severe mental illness managed?
A
If able to engage / manageable risk…
GP and CMHT
- Early intervention services
- Secondary care psychotherapy services
- Community hospitals and day services
4
Q
Where are people with severe mental illness managed?
A
- HTT / crisis resolution team
If unsafe to manage in community…
- Psychiatric ward - voluntary or sectioned
5
Q
What is the hierarchy of mental illness?
A
Must treat in this order:
- Organic pathology
- Psychosis
- Affective (mood)
- Neurosis (anxiety etc)
- Personality
- No mental illness (lying etc)
