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Mental health Flashcards

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what kind of info is gained from a MSE & what sources

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formal & informal interview, & Observation. Both objective & subjective data.

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What are the MSE Content areas

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Appearance
attitude/behaviour 
mood
affect
speech 
thought content
thought process/form 
perception 
cognition
insight & Judgement 
Socialization & interpersonal relationships
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Which parts of the MSE are observed

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Appearance, attitude/behaviour, Mood ( mostly inquired but a little bit observed), Affect, speech, thought content, thought process& form, perception (if a pt. is reacting to hallucinations), insight/judgement, socialization & interpersonal relationships

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which parts of MSE can be inquired

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mood, thought content, thought process, thought form, perception, cognition, insight & judgement, socialization & interpersonal relationships

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Adolescent MSE considerations

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increased risk taking & abstract thought. Higher risk of intentional harm/ homicide. Half of diagnosable mental illness begin by age 14.

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who has higher risk of mental health problems (youth)

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1) Aboriginal
2) Immigrant
3) Homeless
4) Sexual minority

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Mental health considerations for adult hood

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  • social isolation
  • Dept incurred from education
  • Vulnerable to distraction
  • confidence & adaptability
  • “caught in the middle feeling”
  • work desmands
  • biological changes (menopause, etc)
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Mental health considerations for older adult

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  • aging leaves mental health intact but things slow down
  • loss of loved ones
  • decrease in income
  • changes in daily routines with retirement or loss
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What kind of questioning for Suicide Risk management assessment

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1) Their intent
2) do they have a plan?
3) Do they have access to the means?
4) How lethal is the means?
5) Have the rehearsed it

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What is a part of ISPATHWARM

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I= Ideation
S= Substance issues 
P= Purposelessness
A= Anxiety 
T= Trapped
H= Hopelessness
W= Withdrawl 
A= Anger
R= Recklessnesss
M= Mood changes
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What is suicidal ideation

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  • *ACUTE RISK**
    1) Threaten to hurt or kill themselves or talking of wanting to kill themselves
    2) Looking for ways to kill themselves by seeking access to firearms, pills or other means
    3) Talking or writing about death, dying or suicide, when these actions are out of the ordinary
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What would indicate substance misuses

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  • excessively using alcohol or drugs

- or recently began using alcohol/drugs

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What would indicate purposelessness

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  • no reason for living
  • no sense in purpose
  • lost
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what would indication anxiety

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  • anxious
  • aggitated
  • unable to sleep or relax
  • to much sleep
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What would indicate anger

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  • Rage
  • uncontrolled anger
  • Seeking revenge
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What would indicate feeling trapped

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feeling like there’s no way out of current situation

  • death may be preferable option to a pained life
  • no other choices left
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what would indicate hopelessness

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  • negative sense of self, others or the future

- little chance for positive change in the future

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what would indicate withdrawal

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  • friends, fam, SO, society

- have they already begun? do they want to?

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what would indicate recklessness

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  • risky behaviour
  • seemingly without thinking
  • don’t think about consequences
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2 other considerations of ISPATHWARM

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1) Crisis situations
(loss of relationship, housing, job, rejection, finance, bad news)
2) Change in behaviour &/or speech
(Reduced self care, unusual thoughts, no responding to phone class, messages, avoiding friends, not fulfilling responsibilities, giving away prized belonging)

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What is the SADPERSONS SCALE

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S= Sex (Male)
A= Age 15-25 or 59+
D= Depression
P= Previous suicide attempt or psychiatric care
E= Ethanol abuse or drug (alcohol)
R=Rational thinking loss (psychotic or organic illness)
S=Social support lacking (single, widowed or divorced)
O= organized plan or serious attempt
N= no spouse/ social support
S= sickness (Chronic, debilitating disease) or stated future attempt
***ALL OF THESE THINGS PUT U AT RISK +1 FOR EACH ONE THAT APPLIES

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Explain sadpersons scoring

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0-5 may be safe to discharge
6-8 needs psychiatric consultation
>8 hospital admission
(its out of 10)

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How long is the first stage of alcohol withdrawal

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8 hr

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how long is the second stage of alcohol withdrawal

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1-3 days

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how long is the 3rd stage of alcohol withdrawal

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weeks

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what are the symptoms of the 1st stage of alcohol withdrawal

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Anxiety, Insomnia, Nausea, & abdominal pain

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what are the primary symptoms of the 2nd stage of alcohol withdrawal

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High blood pressure, increased body temperature

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what are the symptoms of the 3rd stage of alcohol withdrawal

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hallucinations, fever, seizures, agitation

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What is a comprehensive mental health assessment

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  • Complete health history & physical exam
  • Psychological, Emotional, Social, Spiritual, ethnic & cultural dimensions of health
  • Attends to health-illness experience
  • focused on understanding the clients lived experience
  • holistic
  • baseline
  • info from: Pt, Fam, HC providers, social services, educators, employers, records
  • MAY TAKE DAYS OR WEEKS TO COMPLET
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what is a focused mental health assessment

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  • specific info about a specific need, situation, or problem
  • used in emergencies
  • Evaluation of: medication effects, risk for self-harm/suicide, knowledge deficits, adequate support
  • screen who are at high risk for particular problems
  • may use specific tests: Glasgow coma scale, mini-mental health status, hamilton rating scale for depression
  • FOR THE IMMEDIATE NEED OF THE PT. & SETTING
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Factors the facilitate effective interviewing

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1) Negotiate the terms of the interview with participants
2) The environment
3) Realistic time management
4) Attentive to your own nonverbal comm.
5) Avoid jargon
6) begin with a less sensitive topic & move toward sensitive issues as a rapport develops
7) Leave time at the end fo closure & future planning

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Bio aspect of bio/psycho/social/spiritual/psychiatric mental health nursing assessment

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1) Health status
2) Physical exam
3) Physical function
4) pharmacological

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Psychological aspect of the bio/psycho/social/spiritual/psychiatric mental health nursing assessment

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1) Responses to mental health problems
2) Mental status
3) Behaviour
4) Self-concept
5) Stress & coping
6) Risk assessment

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Stress & coping patterns

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  • Everyone lives with some degree of stress
  • For vulnerable individuals it may contribute to the development of mental health disorders
    1) identify major stressors
    2) Identify current stressors & coping strategies & evaluate the effectiveness
    3) Highlight both problem areas & resources
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Developmental considerations for mental health

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1) Achievement of important developmental milestones or social & education difficulties may be indication of attentional or interpersonal deficits, behavioural problems, a chaotic family environment, brain injury or childhood mental problems)
2) Parental death or separation (may be associated with alterations in attachment * later relationship difficulties)

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Briefly explain the components of a mental status exam

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1) General observations (Appearance, Psychomotor behaviour, attitude toward interviewer)
2) Mood
3) Affect
4) Speech
5) Perception
6) Thought (content, process, form)
7) Sensorium (lvl of consciousness, orientation to person, place & time, Memory)
* Memory (immediate retention & recall, recent, short term, long term)
8) Insight
9) Judgement

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What should be included in a general observation of appearance

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1) Manner & appropriateness of dress
2) personal hygiene
3) Odours
4) Pupil size
5) Identifying characteristics (tattoos, piercings)
6) Skin ton
7) Nutrition status
8) Energy level

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What should a general observation of Psychomotor behaviour include

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1) Posture
2) Gait
3) Motor coordination
4) Facial expression
5) Mannerisms
6) Gestures
7) Activity
8) Clues to emotional state: Muscle tension, purposeless repetitive motion & restlessness

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What should a general observation of attitude toward interviewer include

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1) Accommodating
2) Cooperative
3) Open
4) Friendly
5) Apathetic
6) Bored
7) Guarded
8) Suspicious
9) Hostile
10) Evasive

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What is mood

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  • A pervasive & sustained emotion & what the CLIENT REPORTS about his or her prevailing emotional state.
  • tends to be stable over time & reflects the person disposition or world view
  • “How have you been feeling over the last little while?”
  • Euthymic, Euphoric, Dysphoric
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what is Euthymic mood

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normal

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What is affect

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  • Immediately express or observed emotion that is INFERRED BY THE EXAMINER BY FACIAL EXPRESSION,VOCALIZATION & BEHAVIOUR.
  • May change during the assessment
  • Described by range, Appropriateness & stability
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what is Affect range

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Quantifies an affective response

-Full, constricted, intensity, blunt, flattened

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what is affect appropriateness

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incongruent, or congruent to context

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what is affect stability

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mobile (normal to have changes) or labile (exaggerated changes)

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What is Speech

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  • Provides clues about the client’s thoughts, emotion & cognitive processes
  • Conveys info about the clients understanding of the situation & ability to respond to social cues
  • Described in terms of Quantity, Rate, Fluency of productions, & quality
  • note speech impediments, response to latency, repetition, rhyming, or usual use of words
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What is speech quality

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Talkative, Verbose, Expansive or having paucity or poverty of speech

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what is speech rate

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slow, hesitant, fast or pressured (mania)

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what is fluency of productions in terms of speech

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aphasic ( impaired language due to neurological, cognitive or emotional origin)

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what is quality of speech

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Monotone, whispered, slurred, mumbled, staccato(broken) or loud

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What is perception

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  • Complex series of mental events involved with taking in sensory info from the environment & processing of that info into mental representation
  • includes hallucinations & illusions
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what are hallucinations

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false sensory perceptions that not associated with external stimuli & not shared by others

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what are illusions

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misperceptions or misrepresentations of real sensory stimuli (misidentifying the wind as a voice calling ones name or thinking that a label on clothes is an insect)

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What is thought

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Assessed through language in terms of its content and process/from

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What is thought content

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the subjective manner occupying a persons thoughts

Delusions, paranoia, Phobia, reoccurring themes

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what is thought process/form

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Manner in which thoughts are formed & expressed (flight of ideas, thought blocking & word salad)

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What Is level of consciousness

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arousal or wakefulness.
If nonresponsive, apply increasing levels of stimulation to elicit a response (Verbal, Tactile, Painful)
-Glassgows coma scale
(Awake, alert, lethargic, somnolent, stuporous or comatose)

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what is somnolent & stuporous

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Somnolent = drowsy 
Stuporous = slowed & sluggish
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How should you ask questions about orientation

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begin with specific questions about date, timer day, location & go more general if needed

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Explain the 4 types of memory

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1) Immediate retention & recall
- provide 3 unrelated words & ask client to repeat them immediately, 5 mins & 15 mins
2) Recent memory
- ask q about last few hr’s or days
3) Short-term memory
- Ask question of the past weeks or months
4) Remote or long-term memory
- ask questions of events of years ago

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How to ask about attention & concentration

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ask the client to count backwards starting at 100 subtracting in increments of 7 or start at 20 and subtracting 3’s
-spell simple word backwards

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Explain comprehension & Abstract reasoning: Insight & judgement

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involve the ability to examine ideas, conceptualize facts, solve problems & think abstractly

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what is insight

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describes a persons understanding of a set of circumstances & reflects awareness of his or her own thoughts & feelings and an ability to compare them with others

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what is judgement

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the ability to reach al logical decision about a situation & choose a reasonable course of action about examining & analyzing various possibilities.
provide a senario & ask best response

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Assessing Risk, Protective & promotive factors

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1) Risk factors - characteristics, conditions, situation & events that increase the individuals vulnerability to threats to safety/wellbeing
2) Protective Factors - attributes or conditions of individual or family that reduce, mitigate or eliminate risks
3) Promotive factors - conditions or attributes that actively enhances well being
* *TOGETHER THEY INCREASE THE PROBABILITY OF POSITIVE, ADAPTIVE & HEALTHY OUTCOMES

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What should you know about assessing gender identity

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  • Gender exists on a continuum whose endpoints are anchored by man/male & female/woman
  • Widespread discrimination & stigma leads to: *Disparities in health & disorders and risk behaviours * Negative social influence *poorer access to health care
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Social assessment

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1) family & relationship
2) Evaluation of functional status
3) information about the individuals ethnicity

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Mental health increased risk

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Low socioeconomic status 
poor housing/living conditions 
job stress
trauma or violence in family
parental mental illness 
insecure attachement 
malnutrition 
low self esteem
psychoactive drug use 
elder abuse 
poverty 
discrimination/bullying
bereavement 
neightbourhood crime
poor civic amenities
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What is addiction

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Chronic, relapsing & treatable medical condition - Chronic disease

  • LEAD PREVENTABLE DEATH, DISABILITY & DISEASE GLOBALLY
  • Disease of the brain & not an expression of moral character
  • can be neglected & under treated
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What does CIWA-Ar stand for

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Clinical institute withdrawal assessment of alcohol scale

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How can addiction effect you

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  • negatively impact any or all body systems (disabling & irreversible)
  • withdrawal symptoms can be life-threatening
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when do withdrawal symptoms usually start

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hours after last consumption

73
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what are delirium tremors & when do they start

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Can occur as early as 48 hours after last consumption & can involve profound confusion, autonomic hyperactivity (BP & HR) and seizures

74
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Explain the opioid addiction

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opioid prescribing in canada has lead to increase addiction & overdose
-Morphine, Codeine, oxycodone, methadone, fentanyl, tramadol & meperidine

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What is the biologic theory of addition

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Factor sushi as trauma, prenatal or postnatal stress, adverse childhood experience have to potential to change gene expression

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what are the psychological theories of addiction

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suggest that some individuals are born with certain temperaments & subsequently develop particular personality traits, vulnerabilities, or even personality disorder that make them more susceptible to addiction

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what are the social theories of addiction

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significant difference between countries and their prevalence of addition & accessibility. Culture is considered to effect addiction prevalence

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What are the spiritual theories of addiction

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Spirituality had a close relationship with the field of addiction treatment. Individuals who have recored from addiction often mention spiritual experiences or motivation as a major contributing factor to recovery

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What is a delusion

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3 essential qualities

1) Out of keeping with patients educational, cultural & social background
2) conviction & certainty
3) core feature of psychotic disorders

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what is an obsession

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an undesired, unpleasant, intrusive thought that cannot be suppressed through the patients volition. They are typically of violence, injury, dirt or sex or obsessive rumination on intellectual themes.

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What is a mental health assessment assessing for

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1) health status
2) Potential for wellness
3) health care deficits
4) risk to self & others
5) alterarations in thought, affect, behaviour
6) substance use
7) history of trauma/abuse

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why do we do a physical assessment for mental health

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  • shorter life expectancy & chronic physical illnesses
  • may disturb sleep/wake cycles, weight gain, cardiac arrhythmias
  • medical conditions can mask or worsen psychiatric conditions
  • psychiatric conditions can make it difficult to describe medical symptoms
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Tasks during interview

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1) build rapport
2) obtain facts
3) clarify perceptions
4) validate observations

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What are the barriers to interviewing

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1) lack of clarity of purpose doing interview
2) To many closed ended Q’s
3) to many complex Q’s
4) Assumptions
5) avoiding or ignoring expressions of emotion

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Interprofesional collboration …

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  • Decrease hospital stay
  • Increase quality of care
  • increases assess to care
  • enhanced safety
  • increased recuitment & retention
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secondary sources:

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Fam, HC providers, reports & records

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different types of delusion

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  • Paranoid delusion - mistrust
  • bizarre delusion - absurd
  • somatic delusion- involve body
  • depersonalization
  • magical thinking
  • Erotomania- think someones in love with them
  • Hihilism - think they’re dead
  • obsession
  • phobia
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thought process abnormalities

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Pressured speech
verigeration - meaningless repetition
-clang association - same sound but not associated
-preservation - response to stimulus after gone
-word said - incoherent mixture
-neologism- new words

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neurobiology of addiction

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addictive substances activate brain reward center (increased dopamine reinforces behaviour)

  • changes within the brain that lead to no longer voluntary control
  • not all who are exposed will become addicted (genetics, males)
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symptom of alcohol addiction

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poor nutrition and vitamin deficiencies

91
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Explain mild withdrawal

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6-12 hr. Resolves in 48-72hr

-elevated temp, anxious, nausea, vomit, tremor, tachycardia, hypertension

92
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explain intermediated withdraw

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seizures, dysrhythmias, hallucinations

93
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explain major withdraw

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severe agitation, hyperactivity, global confusion, disorientation, occur within 5-6 days

94
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Explain caffeine intoxication & withdrawal

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Intoxication: Restless, nervous, excitement, insomnia, flushed face, diuresis, GI, twitch, rambling, tachycardia, arrhythmia, agitation *no long lasting consequences
Withdrawal: Headache, insomnia, abnormal dream, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, nausea

95
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Cannabis related disorder

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relax, distortion of senses, spatial misinterpretation, tachycardia, time standing still, cravings, decreased cognitives, impaired education, memory , recall, weight gain, psychosis/schizophrenia
* no treatment

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Opioid related disorders

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-CNS depression, sleep, analgesia, addictive, sweat, nausea, constipation, confusion, reduced respiration.
WithdrawL: flu, cravings, insomnia

97
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Youth addiction special considerations

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  • vulnerable
  • sensative to stress
  • underdeveloped brain
  • emotional
  • livier, heard, impaired brain & organs
  • need family involve for recovery
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mental illness is not

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moral weakness or a lifestyle choice

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Parts to assess for CIWA

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  • Nausea.vomiting
  • tremors
  • anxiety
  • agitiation
  • paroxysmal sweats
  • orientation
  • tractile distrubances
  • visual distrubances
  • heacache
  • Lorazepam for elderly or significant liver failure
  • diazepam for all other
  • the higher the score = worse
100
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What is COWS assessment for

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Clinical opiat withdrawal scale

101
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what would you check for COWS assessment

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1) Resting pulse
2) Sweating
3) Restlessness
4) Bone or joint aches
5) Running nose or tearing
6) GI UPSET
7) Tremor
8) Yawning
9) Anxiety or irritability
10) Gooseflesh skin/piloerection
severe = 36+

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