Mental Health Diagnoses

Question 1

Irritability , difficulty sleeping, excessive worry, and muscle aches / soreness are signs of _____.

Answer 1

GAD

Question 2

When addressing a client with anxiety, depression, mania, etc… What should you do 1st or 2nd?

Answer 2

1st : physiological needs
2nd : Safety

Question 3

What are some examples of ensuring a safe environment for Anxiety patients?

Answer 3

1. reorient the client
2. decrease stimuli
3. calm environment
4. monitor for self-harm

Question 4

In order to be diagnosed with depression it has to persist for ___ weeks.

Answer 4

two weeks

Question 5

What is the order of therapeutic management of clients with depression?

Answer 5

1. physiological needs (hydration / sleep)
2. safe environment (assess risk for self harm)
3. therapy

Question 6

Patients with mania have ____ ___ speech.

Answer 6

loud rapid speech

Question 6

Patients with SI should have ____ utensils.

Answer 6

plastic (count when collecting the tray)

Question 7

Patients in a mania will take a ____ stabilizer.

Answer 7

mood

Question 8

For patients in mania how can you help their physiological needs?

Answer 8

provide high-calorie finger foods

Question 9

Schizophrenia patients have abnormalities with _____ & _____ neurochemicals.

Answer 9

dopamine / neurochemicals

Question 10

_____ is involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior

Answer 10

Schizophrenia

Question 11

decreased emotional range, decreased interest / drive in life, decreased inertia & initiative are all ___ signs of schizophrenia.

Answer 11

negative

Question 12

Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, bizarre behavior are all ___ signs of schizophrenia.

Answer 12

positive signs of schizo

Question 13

______ are false belief firmly held to be true despite rational argument.

Answer 13

delusions

Question 14

______ are a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind.

Answer 14

hallucinations

Question 15

Should you ask patients about auditory hallucinations?

Answer 15

yes - are they telling them to do something?

Question 16

Should you argue about the delusions or hallucinations the patient is having?

Answer 16

no

Question 17

how should you ground a patient having hallucinations?

Answer 17

stay focused on reality and set limits

Question 18

Paranoid , schizoid , schizotypical are cluster ____ personality disorders.

Answer 18

Cluster A

Question 19

Antisocial , borderline, Histrionic, Narcisstic are all cluster ____ personality disorders.

Answer 19

cluster b

Question 20

Avoidant , dependent, and OC are all cluster ___ personality disorders.

Answer 20

Cluster C

Question 21

Russles signs is _____ ?

Answer 21

significant wear on the hands and knuckles.

Question 21

name some assessment findings of anorexia nervosa (3)

Answer 21

1. cyanosis
2. lanugo (soft fine hair)
3. osteoporosis
   *everything will be low