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Intro to Psych Flashcards

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Mental health worker should possess what?

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Resilience
Use adaptive coping skills
Able to function within family and community
Accomplishing developmental tasks

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Resilience is the ability to:

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function with healthy responses even when experiencing significant stress and adversity.

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Resilience is influenced by one’s:

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  • Optimism, or belief that a positive outcome is possible in the situation they
    are currently facing
    • Self efficacy, or belief that they have the ability to complete the tasks needed to take control of situations which influence their life
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Ability to function

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Functions responsibly:

  • Within an occupational or school environment
  • Within a family system
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Erickson Stage

Young adult

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Intimacy vs Isolation

Love

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Erickson Stage

Adulthood

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Generativity vs Stagnation

Care

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Erickson Stage

Maturity

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Integrity Vs Despair

Wisdom

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What is mental illness?

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Loss of the ability to respond to the environment in ways that are in accord with one’s own or society’s expectations

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Mental illness is characterized by:

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thoughts, feelings, or behavior patterns that impair functioning and cause the individual (or others!) distress

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Adaptations to Stress

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  • Feels out of control with self and with the environment

- Has a negative perception of the environment/life in general - Has ineffective coping mechanisms

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Personality Characteristics

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  • Non-accepting of self and dislikes self
  • Unrealistic perception of strengths and weaknesses
  • Thoughts and perceptions may not be reality based
  • Unable to find meaning and purpose in life
  • Lacks direction and productivity in life
  • Has difficulty in meeting own needs
  • (adaptive vs. maladaptive responses/behaviors/coping skills)
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Interpersonal Relationships

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  • Unable to love and care for others (with appropriate and healthy boundaries)
  • Unable to feel loved by others or accept feelings from others
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Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing:

Theoretical Models

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  • Biological theories
  • Counseling theories
  • Hildegard Peplau’s theory
  • Therapeutic use of self
  • QSEN
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Conditions that promote development of a therapeutic relationship:

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  • Trust
  • Genuineness • Empathy
  • Rapport
  • Respect
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Stages of therapeutic relationship

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  • Preinteraction
  • Orientation
  • Working
  • Termination
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What is the DSM 5?

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• DSM 5 is short for the Diagnostic and statistical Manual of Mental Illness version 5

  • Lists psychiatric diagnoses
  • Lists criteria patients need to meet to be diagnosed with a disorder
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Role of Nurse is to?

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Safe Milieu
Therapeutic Milieu
Safe practice
Ethical and Legal Guidelines

18
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Milieu Therapy

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  • All patients have strengths as well as limitations
  • Every interaction is an opportunity for therapeutic intervention
  • Patients participate in making decisions and solving problems on the units
  • Personal responsibility is encouraged
  • Peer pressure used to give feedback
  • Inappropriate behaviors processed
  • No restrictions or punishments: use group discussion first
19
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Two categories of admission

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  • Voluntary status

* Involuntary status

20
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Involuntary Admission consists of:

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  • After initial 72 hours, client may be asked to sign voluntary admission for further treatment/stabilization
  • Judicial process required to extend original Baker Act
21
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Who can initiate Baker Act in Florida?

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  • Any physician
  • Psychiatrist
  • Psychologist
  • Psych ARNP
  • LCSW/LMHC
  • Police Officers
  • Court Order, e.g., Ex-Parte Order
22
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Duty to Warn

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Tarasoff Case

•Failure to warn a potential victim that he/she is in danger

23
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Rights of the Mentally Ill

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  • Clients have all of the civil rights of any citizen, except the right to leave the hospital in the case of involuntary commitment
  • Can refuse treatment (except under life threatening conditions or emergency treatment orders (ETO’s)

*** • Any restrictions on the client’s freedom must be made by MDs or with a court order with a verifiable, documented reason

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What is Seclusion?

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The involuntary confinement of a person in a specially constructed, locked room—usually has a window or camera for visual monitoring.

Provides decreased stimulation, protection of others from the client, prevention of property destruction, and privacy for the client.

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What is the goal of seclusion?

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to give the client the opportunity to regain physical and emotional self-control

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Least Restrictive Environment

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• Clients have the right to treatment in the least restrictive environment that is appropriate to meet their needs while maintaining their safety and that of others

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