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Excelsior N212- Life Span 2 > Mental Health > Flashcards

Mental Health Flashcards

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4 levels of anxiety and descriptions

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Mild anxiety: usually normal for most people. Prepares people for action.
Moderate: decreased concentration, trouble making decisions, restlessness

Severe: can only concentrate on one detail. Difficulty completing any task, physical symptoms

Panic anxiety: loss of contact with reality, not able to communicate, terror, prolonged panic can be life threatening

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What are some of the behavioral responses to each of the 4 levels of anxiety?

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Mild anxiety: sleeping, yawning, fidgeting, talking, crying, laughing
Moderate: restless, increased hr and respiration, gastric discomfort

Severe: hyperventilation, nausea, trembling, urinary frequency.

Panic: dilated pupils, immobility or purposeless hyperactivity, incoherence

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Compensation

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Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait more desirable.
Sometimes a good thing.

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Reaction formation

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Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors. Hi

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Displacement

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Transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that is neutral

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Identification

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Attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain attributes and characteristics of an individual on admires.

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Sublimation

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Re-channeling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive.

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Stages of grief

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DABDA

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression 
Acceptance
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Describe Freud’s structure of personality

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Id: pleasure principle, instinctual drive

Ego: rational self, mediated between id and superego

Superego: conscience- Black and white facts. Rigid, striving for perfection

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Name and describe Freud’s 3 categories of all mental contents and operations. (Not the id)

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Conscious: includes memories within awareness. Smallest of the 3.

Preconscious: forgotten memories or not in present awareness.

Unconscious: unable to bring back to awareness. Repressed memories.

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Harry Stack Sullivan has theory of interpersonal concepts. How people relate in social interactions.
What are his 6 stages of personality development?

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Infancy: birth to 18 months- relief from anxiety through oral gratification
Childhood: 18mos- 6 years- learning to experience delay in gratification without undue anxiety
Juvenile 6-9 yrs: form satisfactory peer relationships
Preadolescent 9-12 :relationships with same gender
Early adolescence 12-14: relationships with opposite gender. Develop sense of identity.
Late adolescence 14-21: self identity, lasting relationships

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Main idea of Margaret Mahler’s theory of object relations.

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Separation from primary caregiver. Individualization.

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What was Piaget’s theory about?

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Cognitive development

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What was Kohlberg’s theory of development about?

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Moral development.

What is behavior motivated by?

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Who developed an interpersonal theory specific to nurse- client relationships?
Correlated stages of personality development to nursing.

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Hildegard Peplau

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What is psychodynamic nursing?

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Being able to understand one’s own behavior,
To help others identify felt difficulties,
And to apply principles of human relations to problems that arise at all levels of experience.

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What are the 4 phases of nurse- client relationship according to Peplau?
And describe each

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Orientation: client, nurse and family work together to clarify and define existing problem.

Identification: clients responds selectively to those who offer needed help.

Exploitation: client takes full advantage of services offered

Resolution: occurs when client gathers strength and assumes independence

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Psychiatrist

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Can prescribe.
Responsible for diagnosis and treatment.
Has medical degree

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Psychologist

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Evaluates and interprets testing.

doctorate in psychology.

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Wernicke’s encephalopathy

Cause and symptoms

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Serious form of thiamine deficiency in alcoholics.

Paralysis of eye muscles,diplopia, ataxia, somnolence, stupor.

If thiamine replacement is not quick, death may occur.

Sometimes referred to as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

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Korsakoff’s psychosis

Causes and symptoms

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Caused by alcoholism. Encountered in clients recovering from Wernicke’s encephalopathy.

Sx- confusion, loss of recent memory, confabulation (distorted memories)

Treatment is thiamine replacement

Sometimes referred as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

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22
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What is disulfiram?

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Antabuse
Blocks oxidation of alcohol.
Could lead to death with high levels of alcohol.
Wait for at least 12 hours after last drink to administer.
Sensitivity to alcohol may last up to 2 weeks after last dose.

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23
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Where did the word schizophrenia derive from?

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Skhizo (split)

Phren (mind)

24
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How many schizophrenics attempt suicide?

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About 1/3 of people with the disorder.

25
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List and describe 4 phases of schizophrenia

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1-premorbid: social withdrawal, irritability, antagonistic thoughts and behaviors

2-prodromal: length is 2-5 years. Sleep impaired, depressed, anxious, functional impairment

3-schizophrenia: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, catatonic behavior, decreased functioning

4-residual: periods of remission and exacerbation. Usually flat affect remains

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Delusional disorder

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Several different types
Characterized by delusions for at least one month. Hallucinations are not prominent and behavior is not bizarre.

Hi

27
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What medical conditions can cause catatonic disorder?

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Metabolic disorders (hepatic encephalopathy, hypo and hyperthyroidism, hypo and hyperadrenalism, b12 deficiency)

Neurological conditions (epilepsy, tumors, cerebrovascular disease, head trauma, encephalitis)

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Schizophreniform disorder

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Same as schizophrenia but lasts at least one month but less than 6 months.

29
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Schizoaffective disorder

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Schizophrenic behavior but has mood disorders (depression or mania)

30
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Which foods should be avoided with MAOI’s? (Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors)

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Foods that contain tyramine.
Aged Cheeses are highest, but most cheese have some tyramine.
Raisins
Some beans
Red wines
Smoked meats
Soy sauce
MSG
Avocado 
Chocolate
31
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Cyclothymic disorder

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Chronic mood disorder that lasts at least 2 years.

Not as severe as bipolar symptoms but similar.

32
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Trichotillomania

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Pulling out hair obsession

33
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Conversion disorder

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Loss or change in body function not explained by medical or pathophysiological cause

34
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What are the following conversion symptoms?
Aphonia:
Anosmia:
Pseudocyesis:

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Aphonia:inability to produce voice

Anosmia: inability to smell

Pseudocyesis:false pregnancy

35
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Factitious disorder

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Conscious, intentional pretending physical or psychological symptoms to get attention or comfort
Also called muchausen syndrome

36
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Dissociative identity disorder

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Formerly known as multiple personality disorder

37
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Schizoid personality disorder
Vs.
schizotypal personality disorder

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schizoid: Profound defect in ability to form relationships and respond to others in a meaningful way.
Seen as cold, shy, serious.

Schizotypal: “latent schizophrenics”. Odd and eccentric behavior. Apathetic. Magical thinking, depersonalization, “sixth sense”, difficult speech,

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Socially irresponsible, guiltless behavior

Disregard the rights of others

39
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Borderline personality disorder

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Intense and chaotic relationships.
Impulsive, self destructive, lack clear sense of identity.
Fear of being alone

40
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Narcissistic personality disorder

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Exaggerated self worth
Need for admiration
Lack of empathy
Entitlement 
Takes advantage of others for own purposes
41
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Avoidant personality disorder

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Hypersensitive to negative evaluation
Avoids contact with people because of fears of criticism, disapproval or rejection
Feels Inferior to others
Very shy

42
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What is milieu therapy

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Milieu therapy is a form of psychotherapy that involves the use of therapeutic communities. Patients join a group of around 30, for between 9 and 18 months. During their stay, patients are encouraged to take responsibility for themselves and the others within the unit

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Acute dystonia

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Side effect of antipsychotics.
Muscle spasm of neck, tongue, 
Back spasm
upward eye movement
laryngeal spasm that can impair respiration.
44
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Tardive dyskinesia

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Protrusion and rolling tongue
Sucking and smacking lips
Chewing motion
Involuntary movements of body

45
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Acetylcholine

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Cholinergic neurotransmitter that is decreased or absent in thought disorders involving memory loss.

It increases neuron activity, increases muscle contraction and glandular secretion.

46
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How are antihistamines used in mental health?

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Often used to counter side effects of some mental health meds.

47
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Who developed “crisis theory”

And what is it?

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Gerald Caplan

Says anxiety can be so overwhelming that it can cause an inability to summon normal coping mechanisms.

48
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According to Freud, what is the segment of personality that operates at the conscious level of awareness?

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Ego

49
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What is gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)?

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Inhibitory neurotransmitter.

Decreased levels cause anxiety, seizures and aggression.

50
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Harry Stack Sullivan’s interpersonal theory says that people strive for what 2 things?

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Satisfaction

Security

51
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Freuds superego does what?

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Ethical decision making
Values
Standards of morality

52
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Conversion disorder

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Person describes neurological symptoms that mimic known diseases, but is rarely anxious about these symptoms

53
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Malingering

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Symptoms are faked for maternal gain

54
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Difference between state anxiety and trait anxiety

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state anxiety: acute anxiety

trait anxiety: chronic anxiety

55
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Failure to recognize or identify objects.

Seen with dementia

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Agnosia

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