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Mental Health Flashcards

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Mental disorders are:

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biologically based brain disorders that variably affect aspects of cognition, emotion, and behavior

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Therapeutic Milieu

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safe, inviting environment for the patient; nurses role is to be the milieu manager

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Enlightenment

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asylum movement

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Scientific Study

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treatment: beginning of psych nursing; decade of the brain

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Psychotropic Drugs

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destigmatizing “least restrictive environment”

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Community Mental Health

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deinstitutionalization

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Decade of the Brain

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increased funding for brain research; new treatments; increased understanding of mental disorders

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Continuum of Care

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best fit for the patient for what is currently going on in their life; want to keep least restrictive

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Axis I

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Clinical Disorder (psych disorder); schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar

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Axis II

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Personality or Development Disorder; paranoid, borderline personality disorders, mental retardation

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Axis III

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General Medical Conditions (related to I or II); Neoplasms, endocrine disorders

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Axis IV

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Psychosocial Stressors; divorce, housing, educational issues

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Axis V

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Global Assessment Functioning (GAF); scale of 0-100; higher the number the better the persons functioning; score of 30+ pt behavior is highly influenced by delusions and hallucinations

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Hildegard Peplau

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mother of psychiatric nursing; focused on communication and problem solving skills of the nurse and expanded the role

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Roles of Psychiatric Nurse

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socializing agent, teacher, model, advocate, counselor, role player, milieu manager

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Psycho-therapeutic Management

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  1. therapeutic relationship (use of self) 2. psychopharmacology 3. milieu management (use of environment)
    * *need to use all 3 components to have effective treatment
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Therapeutic Nurse-Pt Relationship

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must be consistent

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Manage 6 Environmental Elements for Milieu

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  1. Safety (keep pt free from danger or harm)
  2. Structure (environment, regulations, schedules)
  3. Norms (specific expectations of behavior)
  4. Limit-setting (clear and enforceable)
  5. Balance
  6. Environmental Modification
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Inpatient Care

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crisis intervention and safety

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Traditional Outpatient

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visit according to pt needs (per month/per week)

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Partial Programs/ Day Treatment

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need some supervision, structured activities

22
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Psychiatric Home Care

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combo of psych and medical illness

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Community Outreach Programs

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mobile crisis teams; will see more often in rural areas

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Residential Services

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need temporary or long term housing; group homes’ halfway house; apartment living

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Self-help groups

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conducted by members, not professionals

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Intensive Outpatient

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stabilize pt in communities

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Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

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community based service delivery model; provide outreach to where pt lives

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Primary Care

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sometimes seeks PCP due to sigma, lack of knowledge, and or reduced access to care

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Psychoanalytical Theory

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Freud (id, ego, superego), consciousness (conscious, unconscious, precociousness); personality formed by early childhood (6), change is a process of insight

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Developmental Theory (Erikson)

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Biopsychosocial-environmental emphasis; lifespan personality development occurs in stages; growth entails mastery of critical tasks

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Interpersonal Theory (Sullivan)

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empathetic communication of anxiety (good me, bad me, not me), personality development focuses on behaviors needed to accomplish developmental tasks; goal is to develop mature, satisfactory, anxiety free relationships

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Alarm Reaction (Stress Model)

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+1 to +2; mobilization, activation of flight or fight response

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Stage of Resistance (Stress Model)

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+2 to +3; adaptation to stress within individuals capabilities

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Stage of Exhaustion (Stress Model)

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+3 to +4; loss of ability to resist stress; depletion of resources

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M’Naghten Rule

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not guilty by reason of insanity = “right vs wrong”

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Tarasoff vs Regents

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duty to warn

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Voluntary Commitment

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person requests hospitalization and voluntarily agrees to be admitted

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Involuntary Commitment

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person with legal capacity to consent, refuses to do so, and is treated against his or her will

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Commitment of Incapacitated Persons

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a person, who does not have the legal capacity to consent to treatment (incompetent), is admitted for treatment

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Temporary Detention Order (TDO)

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have to go before the judge; judge will either dismiss, pt will agree to voluntarily stay for a while, or they will be involuntarily committed

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Emergency Custody Order (ECO)

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usually occurs in the ED; is a short time frame looking for medical bed to evaluate pt further

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Reasons for Involuntary Commitment

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  1. harm to self (psych); retain rights
  2. harmful to others (psych); retain rights
  3. incompetent persons (medical); loose rights
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Patient Rights

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least restrictive environment; confidentiality of records; freedom from restraints/seclusion; to give consent or refuse treatment; provide advance directives

44
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Frontal Lobes

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controls voluntary motor activity; Broca’s area (speech)

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Temporal Lobe

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visual, auditory, olfactory; problems here may start to cause hallucinations; aphasia is result of damage to temporal lobe

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Limbic System 4 F’s

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feeding, fighting, fleeing, fornicating

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Cerebrum

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determines intelligence “thinking part of the brain”; personality, interpretation of sensory impulses, motor function, planning and organization, touch sensation

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Schizophrenia

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increase in dopamine

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Depression

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decrease in norepinephrine and serotonin

50
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Alzheimer’s

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decrease in acetylcholine

51
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Anxiety

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decrease in GABA

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