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Mental Final - Exam 1 Flashcards

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Suicidal patient interventions

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Assess ideation, plan, and lethality. Contract and monitor closely or put on 1-to-1 if no contract.

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Three things apparent in patients in a crisis state

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Inadequate coping mechanisms, anxiety, and struggle for equilibrium

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3 reasons for admission to psych unit

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Harm to self, harm to others, self neglect

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Patient rights

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Communicate (phone)
Keep personal items
Habeus corpus
Privacy
Informed consent
Refuse treatment
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5
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Preorientation phase

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examine feelings, gather data

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Orientation phase

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Introduce, establish report, BEGIN termination, focus on pt needs

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Working phase

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Implement/evaluate care plan, assess safety, contract

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Termination phase

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Summarize, don’t make promises, be honest.

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9
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Patients feelings toward a nurse

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Transference

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10
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Nurses feelings toward the patient

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Countertransference

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What does Dopamine effect? What does an increase/decrease cause?

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Fine motor movement, emotions, reasoning
Increase: Mania, schizophrenia
Decrease: Parksinson’s, depression

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What does Serotonin effect? What does an increase/decrease cause?

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Sleep, hunger, mood, pain
Increase: Anxiety
Decrease: Depression

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What does GABA effect? What does an increase/decrease cause?

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Inhibitory; reduces aggression.
Increase: Reduced Anxiety
Decrease: Anxiety, Schizophrenia

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What does Norepinephrine cause? What does an increase/decrease cause?

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Mood, fight or flight
Increase: Mania, anxiety, schizophrenia
Decrease: Depression

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15
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Restraints steps

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Verbally descalate
Offer meds
Offer to go to room - decrease stimuli
Show of force
Have patient stay in room
Seclude - Lock door
Restraints
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16
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Inappropriate affect

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Laughs at death

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17
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Labile affect

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Rapid mood changes

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18
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No connection between thoughts

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Looseness of association.

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19
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Hallucinations

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Positive. Auditory, Tactile, Gustatory, Olfactory, Visual

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Anergia

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Negative. Lack of energy

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21
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Erotomanic

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Positive. Believing somebody desires you romantically

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Avolition

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Negative. Reduced motivation, lack of goals

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Granduer

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Positive. Believing you are very important or powerful.

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Thought insertion

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Positive. Believing that another person influences your thoughts or actions

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Flat affect

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Negative. Reduced expression

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Jealousy

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Positive. Believing that one’s mate is unfaithful

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Anhedonia

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Negative. Lack of pleasure and emotion

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Ideas of reference

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Positive. Perceiving events as relating to you when they are not.

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Alogia

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Negative. Poverty of speech; reduction.

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Somatic

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Positive. Believing that the body is changing in an unusual way.

31
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Thought blocking

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Negative. Sudden interruption in the thought process.

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Persecution

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Positive. Others are out to harm them.

33
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Interventions for Poor boundary patients/Manipulative patients

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Maintain firm boundaries, BE CONSISTENT. Give two firm choices (Must pick one) and change the subject if they persist.

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Compensation

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Covering up shortcomings

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Conversion

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Unconscious transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom

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Denial

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Escaping unpleasant thoughts by ignoring their existence

37
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Displacement

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Transference of emotions to another. Kicking the dog.

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Disassociation

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Separation of feeling and thought

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Identification

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Taking on the characteristics of another person or group

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Intellectualization

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Analysis of aspects based on cold facts and no passion

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Introjection

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Incorporating the outside world into the view of the self.

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Projection

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Rejecting unacceptable features and attributing it to other people. I hate you, you must hate me.

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Rationalization

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Justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas

44
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Reaction formation

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Reacting an exaggerated opposite to how you feel. A man who is gay has a number of conspicuous heterosexual affairs and openly criticizes gays.

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Regression

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Reverting to an earlier childlike pattern or behavior

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Splitting

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See people as all good or all bad.

47
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Sublimation

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Unconscious replacement of bad qualities for good qualities. Replacing immature with mature.

48
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Suppression

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Conscious denial of an event.

49
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Repression

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Unconscious denial of an event.

50
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Undoing

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When a person makes up for wrongdoing. I kicked your dog so I’ll buy you flowers.

51
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Two healthy coping mechanisms

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Altruism and sublimation

52
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Axis definition

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I: Clinical disorder (MDD, Substance abuse. Acute thing that needs treatment)
II: Personality disorder (OCD)
III: Medical Diagnosis (Diabetes)
IV: Environmental factors (Girlfriend broke up)
V: GAF score (50 = discharge).

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