- religiosity - grandiosity - persecutory - jealousy - erotic

Mental Health Flashcards by emily chetwin

What is counter transference.

What we feel for patients

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What is transference?

What patients feel for us

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What does the suprachiasmic nucleus do?

Wakes us when it is light

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What does REM stand for?

Rapid eye movement

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Definition of narcolepsy

Genetic, falls asleep inappropriately

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What is a syndrome

A cluster of symptoms

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Aphasia

Damaged ability to produce/understand language

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Dysarthria

Difficulty with articulation of speech

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Types of aphasia

Non-fluent
- can understand (Broca)
Fluent
- don’t understand (wernickers)

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Tasks of the left hemisphere

conversation
language comprehension
naming
reading
writing
praxis (skilled movement)
calculations

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Tasks of right hemisphere

facial discrimination
facial recognition
depth perception
receptive affective prosody
executive affective prosody
music
constructional abilities
mental rotation of shapes
appreciation of humor

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Which hemisphere is damaged in apraxia?

Left hemisphere

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What is qualia?

Subjective experience through senses

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Things to record about speech

rate
volume
quality

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Things to record for thoughts

speed
form
content
possession

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Define tangentiality

Off point

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Define circumstantiality

Round-about

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Define flight of ideas

Overall theme

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Define derailment

Beginning makes sense

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Define loosening of association

Makes no sense at all

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Define a delusion

A belief held in the absence of proof
Can’t be shaken if proof to the contrary is brought
Out of keeping with social, cultural and religious background

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Themes of delusions

religiosity
grandiosity
persecutory
jealousy
erotic

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Definition of hallucination

False sensory perception that occurs in absence of proof

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Definition of an illusion

Misperception of a real stimulus

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Depersonalization

Sense that you are not real

De realization

Sense that the environment is not real

Definition of psychosis

Out of touch with reality

What meds do bipolar people take?

Mood stabilisers - lithium

Definition of a phobia

An un rational fear

Definition of sexual orientation

Erotic response in real life and in fantasy

Define gender dysphoria

Individual trapped in wrong biological body

Define a personality disorder

A pervasive interactional style that is stable over a life-span of which they are unaware

Type A personality disorders

- paranoid | - schizophrenic

Type B personality disorders

- Narcissistic - antisocial - histrionic - borderline

Type C personality disorders

- dependant - avoidant - obsessive compulsive

Define a paraphilic disorder

When an individual can only achieve sexual arousal through abnormal means

What is a cultural syndrome?

A cluster of co-occurring symptoms found in a specific cultural context

What is a cultural idiom of distress?

A way of talking about suffering amongst people of a certain cultural group

What is a cultural explanation?

A perceived cause/ explanatory model that provides a culturally perceived etiology for a cause of distress

Describe the DSM 4 axes

- psychiatric diagnosis - personality ds/ mental retardation - physical health - psychosocial stressors - functioning

Etiological factors

- predisposing - precipitating - perpetuating - protective

Definition of epilepsy

A repeated pattern of seizures

Definition of seizure

Paroxysmal burst of electrical activity

Definition of dejavu

An overwhelming sense that this moment has already been lived

Definition of jamaisvu

Feeling unfamiliar with the familiar

Erikson's stages of psychological life cycle

- trust vs mistrust - autonomy vs shame and doubt - initiative vs guilt - industry vs inferiority - identity vs role confusion - intimacy vs isolation - generativity vs self-absorption - integrity vs despair

What does SSRIs stand for?

Serotonin specific re uptake inhibitor

IQ less than 70

Intellectual disability

Defining characteristics of autism

- deficits in language development, forming emotional ties | - intellectual disability

Characteristic of aspergers

- seem to not understand he rules of life

Types of disruptive behaviors

- ADD/ADHD - oppositional defiant disorder - conduct disorder (punishment was brutal but inconsistent)

Define copralalia

Uttering swear words/ inappropriate words involuntarily

Define enuresis

Wetting yourself

Define encopressis

No control of faeces

Hypovolaemic causes of LOC

- vasovagal attack (syncope) - postural hypotension - hyperventilation - cardiac arrythmia

Define coma

Unrousable state of unconsciousness

Causes of comas

- apoplexy (brain stem infarction) - epilepsy - injury/infection - opiates - uraemia

When is violence a potential.

- very psychotic paranoid patients - substance intoxication - irritable manic - head injuries - severe personality disorders

Diagnosing dementia

Memory loss and one of: - aphasia (deterioration of language) - apraxia (inability to execute motor activities) - agnosia (failure to recognize or identify objects) - disturbances in executive functioning

Definition of delirium

A neuro-psychiatric syndrome characterized by extreme disturbances of arousal, attention, orientation, perception, intellectual function and affect