Mental Health Flashcards
Anger Management
Remain calm and in control
Encourage client to express feelings verbally
Give client personal space
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
Non traditional case management for client with severe mental illness
reduce recurrent hospitalizations
Fidelity
fulfilment of promises
If a client is threatening an outside source
warn and protect third parties and report of child and vulnerable adult abuse.
Secondary prevention
Screenings
Anxiety
Postpone teaching until anxiety subsides
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Delays in social interaction
Distress when routine is changed
Attachment to objects
Inability to start conversation
Using gestures instead of words
Grunting or humming
Inability to adjust gaze
Histrionic
Characterized by emotional attention seeking behaviour in which the person needs to be center of attention. Often seductive
Narcissitic
Self importance, need for consistent admiration
Validation Therapy
Useful in clients with neurocognitive disorders. It is a process of communicating with a. disoriented older adult client by respecting and validating their feelings that the situation is real to them but no one else.
Disulfiram
Oral medication that is a type of behavioural therapy
Disulfiram used with alcohol will cause acetaldehyde syndrome to occur
Effects include nausea, vomiting, weakness, sweating, palpitations, and hypotension
Electroconvulsive Therapy SE
Memory loss
Reactions to Anesthesia
Cardiovascular changes
Relapse of depression
Lithium SE
Polyuria, Weight Gain, Renal Toxicity, Goiter and hypothyroidism,
Lithium SE
Polyuria, Weight Gain, Renal Toxicity, Goiter and hypothyroidism,
