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Mental Health Flashcards

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What is counter transference.

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What we feel for patients

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What is transference?

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What patients feel for us

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What does the suprachiasmic nucleus do?

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Wakes us when it is light

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What does REM stand for?

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Rapid eye movement

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Definition of narcolepsy

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Genetic, falls asleep inappropriately

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What is a syndrome

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A cluster of symptoms

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Aphasia

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Damaged ability to produce/understand language

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Dysarthria

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Difficulty with articulation of speech

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Types of aphasia

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

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Tasks of the left hemisphere

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  • conversation
  • language comprehension
  • naming
  • reading
  • writing
  • praxis (skilled movement)
  • calculations
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Tasks of right hemisphere

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  • 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?

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Left hemisphere

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What is qualia?

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Subjective experience through senses

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Things to record about speech

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  • rate
  • volume
  • quality
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Things to record for thoughts

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  • speed
  • form
  • content
  • possession
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15
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Define tangentiality

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Off point

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16
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Define circumstantiality

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Round-about

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17
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Define flight of ideas

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Overall theme

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18
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Define derailment

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Beginning makes sense

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19
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Define loosening of association

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Makes no sense at all

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Define a delusion

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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

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  • religiosity
  • grandiosity
  • persecutory
  • jealousy
  • erotic
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22
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Definition of hallucination

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False sensory perception that occurs in absence of proof

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Definition of an illusion

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Misperception of a real stimulus

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Depersonalization

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Sense that you are not real

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De realization

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Sense that the environment is not real

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Definition of psychosis

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Out of touch with reality

27
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What meds do bipolar people take?

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Mood stabilisers - lithium

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Definition of a phobia

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An un rational fear

29
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Definition of sexual orientation

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Erotic response in real life and in fantasy

30
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Define gender dysphoria

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Individual trapped in wrong biological body

31
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Define a personality disorder

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

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Type A personality disorders

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  • paranoid

- schizophrenic

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Type B personality disorders

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  • Narcissistic
  • antisocial
  • histrionic
  • borderline
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Type C personality disorders

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  • dependant
  • avoidant
  • obsessive compulsive
35
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Define a paraphilic disorder

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When an individual can only achieve sexual arousal through abnormal means

36
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What is a cultural syndrome?

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

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What is a cultural idiom of distress?

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

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What is a cultural explanation?

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

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Describe the DSM 4 axes

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  • psychiatric diagnosis
  • personality ds/ mental retardation
  • physical health
  • psychosocial stressors
  • functioning
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Etiological factors

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  • predisposing
  • precipitating
  • perpetuating
  • protective
41
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Definition of epilepsy

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A repeated pattern of seizures

42
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Definition of seizure

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Paroxysmal burst of electrical activity

43
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Definition of dejavu

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An overwhelming sense that this moment has already been lived

44
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Definition of jamaisvu

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Feeling unfamiliar with the familiar

45
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Erikson’s stages of psychological life cycle

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  • 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
46
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What does SSRIs stand for?

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Serotonin specific re uptake inhibitor

47
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IQ less than 70

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Intellectual disability

48
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Defining characteristics of autism

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  • deficits in language development, forming emotional ties

- intellectual disability

49
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Characteristic of aspergers

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  • seem to not understand he rules of life
50
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Types of disruptive behaviors

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  • ADD/ADHD
  • oppositional defiant disorder
  • conduct disorder (punishment was brutal but inconsistent)
51
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Define copralalia

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Uttering swear words/ inappropriate words involuntarily

52
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Define enuresis

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Wetting yourself

53
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Define encopressis

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No control of faeces

54
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Hypovolaemic causes of LOC

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  • vasovagal attack (syncope)
  • postural hypotension
  • hyperventilation
  • cardiac arrythmia
55
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Define coma

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Unrousable state of unconsciousness

56
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Causes of comas

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  • apoplexy (brain stem infarction)
  • epilepsy
  • injury/infection
  • opiates
  • uraemia
57
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When is violence a potential.

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  • very psychotic paranoid patients
  • substance intoxication
  • irritable manic
  • head injuries
  • severe personality disorders
58
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Diagnosing dementia

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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
59
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Definition of delirium

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

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