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In Class Video Week 1 Flashcards

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1
Q

What does mental health mean? (3)

A

Emotional and psychological well being of an individual who has the capacity to

Interact with others
Deal with ORDINARY stress
Perceived one surroundings realistically

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Remember it says ordinary stress
What are some examples?

Extraordinary stress?

How do we use this to determine mental health?

A

Test exams

House on fires

Normal stress treated like extraordinary stress

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3
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Is mental health important for overall health?

A

Yes

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Is it possible to be mentally healthy and have a chronic mental disorder?

A

Yes

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Mental health is essential to ? (3)

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Personal well being
Interpersonal relationship
Contributing to community

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6
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What does wellness mean?

A

Being in good physical and mental health

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Wellness is not what?

A

Absence of disease !

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Wellness has 8 dimensions which is?

A

Emotional
Finiaical
Social
Spiritual
Physical
Occupational
Intellectual
Environmental

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9
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Mental health disorders are conditions involving (3)

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Altered thinking
Altered mood
Altered behavior

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10
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Mental health disorders are often associated with? (2)

A

Distress
&
Impaired functioning

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11
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A mental illness or mental disorder is what?

A

A syndrome

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12
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Why is mental disorder considered a syndrome?

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A set of symptoms that cluster together that may have multiple causes and may represent several different disease states

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What do we use to organize psychiatric diagnosis according to behaviors and symptom patterns ?

A

DSM-5-TR

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What does the DSM-5-TR stand for?

A

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition, text revision

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15
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What does DSM-5-TR contain?

It has no?

Notes
Disorders often have different manifestation at different points in time

Big issue with this is what?

A

Subtypes and other specifiers to classify disorders

Absolute boundaries

No accounting for disorders influenced by cultural factors

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16
Q

What is stigma ?

Labels individuals what?

Linked to?

Leads to ?

A

Dynamic social interactions process

Different

Negative stereotypes

Socially distancing self from stigmatized person

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17
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What are the 3 types of stigma?

A

Public
Self stigma
Label avoidance

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18
Q

What is public stigma?

Most of the time, people think it’s what?

How do we fix this?

A

Public thinks they are dangerous, unpredictable, incapable of functioning independently

The person faults, like they did drugs and bad things to end up with a mental health

Utilizing non stigmatizing language

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19
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What is self stigma?

Patients end up developing?

A

Internalizing negative stereotypes
- client agrees with the public negative view
- may begin applying stigma to themselves

Low self esteem

20
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What is label avoidance ?

A

Avoid treatment or care in order to be labeled

Avoiding treatment = no labeling

21
Q

What are the 5 ethical principles?

A

Autonomy
Beneficence
Nonmalefience
Justice
Veracity

22
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What does autonomy mean?

A

Someone makes their own decisions
What they want

23
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What does beneficence mean!?

A

Doing good
Doing what’s right and help people

24
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What does nonmalefience mean?

A

Not doing bad things
No harming or making life worse

25
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What does justice mean?

A

Treating equally and fairly

26
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What does veracity mean!?

A

Telling the truth

27
Q

How can these principles oppose one another?
Think of an example

A

Surgery

It’s good to do surgery, like its beneficence because we wanna do good and help them

But it’s not nonmalefience because we need to cut into them and hurting them

28
Q

How can these principle oppose in another in psych?
Think of an example

How can we help this?

A

Like patient with Dementia

We are doing good by helping them but they have dementia, they don’t have the autonomy ( choice ) to do so

Explaining to them no matter what

29
Q

Patients have the right to do what?

A

To treatment
Refuse treament
Right to least restrict setting
Confidentiality
Communication
Personal effects
Privacy

30
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What does informed consent mean?

A

Patient is informed and competent during receiving information and consent to treatment

31
Q

Why is the psych idea behind personal effects?

A

Like your objects is all yours

But no shoe laces
Pencils and such

32
Q

What is habeas corpus mean?

A

Legal term

Idea that if you’re ever detained, you have to right to go court in front of a judge

33
Q

What is voluntary admission?

A

Patient choose to come in, want to be apart of the plan care

34
Q

What is involuntary admission?

A

Patient doesn’t willing come on, usually patient is sent by jail, or family members

35
Q

What are some reason why people come in involuntary? (3)

A

Lack of care of self
Harm themselves
Harm to others

36
Q

What is Virginia law if involuntary admission?

A

TDO - temporary detention order

Family says they need help
Then psychologist decides if they need help

37
Q

What is DC law for involuntary admission?

You have to be there ___days to leave or get treatment

A

FD-12

2 psychologist decides for you to go in

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38
Q

What’s AMA?

Means what?

Every patient can cancel unless?

A

Against medical advice discharge

Refusal of medications
8 hours

They are not competence

39
Q

What does competent mean?

A

Patients are able to understand pro and negatives between things when signing informed consent

40
Q

What is restraint?

A

Tieinf someone down

41
Q

What is seclusion?

A

Isolation of a patient, room, corner

42
Q

There are two forms of restraints which are?

Describe them both

A

Violent
Nonviolent

Violent - harming themselves or others

Nonviolent - pulling IV out, elderly patients and children

43
Q

Restraints at the what?

A

LAST RESORT!!

44
Q

Restraints and seclusion are not therapeutic, only emergencies only!!!

Not to make your life easier

A
45
Q

What’s the least to most restrictive (5)

A

Wrist
Ankles
4 point
5 point
Chemical

46
Q

How many fingers for restraints?

A

2 so we can allow for circulation

47
Q

The leading cause of death in psych wards is what?

A

Breathing cause of restraints

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