mental health exam 2 2

Question 1

Adjustment disorder:

Answer 1

Stressors trigger a reaction causing changes in mood and/or dysfunction in performing usual activities. (less severe than ASD and PTSD)

Question 2

Depersonalization/derealization disorder

Answer 2

Temp Change in awareness displays depersonalization, derealization, or both often in response to stress

Question 3

Dissociation Amnesia

Answer 3

Inability to recall personal information related to traumatic or stressful events. You can forget the events of certain periods of time or details

Question 4

Dissociative Fugue

Answer 4

person travels to a new area and is unable to remember one’s own identity and at least some of one’s past. Can last weeks to months and usually follows a traumatic event.

Question 5

Situational/ External

Answer 5

Often unanticipated loss or change experienced every day, often unanticipated, life events. (Divorce, change in the job)

Question 6

Maturational/ Internal

Answer 6

Achieving a new developmental stage, which requires learning additional coping mechanisms. For example, getting married or retiring.

Question 7

Adventitious

Answer 7

Natural disasters, crime, or national disasters. People in communities with large-scale psychological trauma caused by natural disasters.

Question 8

3 stages of crisis

Answer 8

situational/ external
maturational/internal
adventitious

Question 9

findings 3 stages of crisis

Answer 9

Phase 1: Escalating anxiety from a threat activates increased defense responses.
Phase 2: Anxiety continues to escalate. Disorganized. The client tries and fails to resolve anxiety
Phase 3: Server or panic level resulting in flight or withdrawal behaviors
Phase 4: The client experiences overwhelming anxiety leading to anguish feeling powerless and being overwhelmed, dissociative findings, depression, confusion, and or violence against others.