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Mental Health PART 1 Flashcards

1
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What is known as the combination of open-ended and direct questions?

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funneling

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2
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Hostility has a strong connection to what disease?

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heart disease

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3
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What is Dementia?

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Deterioration of congnition & behavior

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What is Delirium?

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acute confusion that may fluctuate

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Which of these is reversible and non-reversible:

Dementia or Delirium?

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  1. Dementia = non-reversible
  2. Delirium = often reversible
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Affect disorders involve what?

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Thymic (MOOD)

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What are the two components of bipolar disease?

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  1. Mania = highs
  2. Melancholia = lows

mood swings between the two

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8
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When does bipolar disease usually appear (what age)?

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20 years old

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9
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Elevated rates of what area associated with bipolar disease?

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  1. obesity
  2. HTN
  3. DM
  4. Hyperlipidemia “pootato chip disease”
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10
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What is the TX for bipolar disease?

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  1. Lithium (brain salts)
  2. drug stabilizers
  3. mood charting
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What does cyclothymic casuse?

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hypomanic & mild deprressive episodes

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12
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What is unipolar disease also known as?

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Depression, hopelessness, suicidal

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13
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Someone who cuts themselves or has self inflicted injuries may have what disease, it is misdiagnosed/ unrecognized 50% of the time.

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Unipolar disease

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Unipolar disease has a high insidence in those with what other conditions? (9)

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  1. Alzheimer’s
  2. DM
  3. Parkinison’s
  4. Heart problems
  5. stroke
  6. cancer
  7. HIV
  8. Fibromyalgia
  9. chronic pain
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15
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Medications to treat what contribute to unipolar disease?

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  1. BP
  2. hormones
  3. anit-biotics
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Unipolar disease is MC in what gender and re-occurance is common?

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Females

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Unipolar disease is major depression for 2 weeks including atleast 4 of what symptoms?

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  1. loss of appetite
  2. insomnia
  3. agitation
  4. worthlessness
  5. suicidal
  6. poor concentration
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What is Dysthymic?

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similar to depression but diagnosis is 2 years of experiencing atlease 3 of the following symptoms:

  1. loss of appetite
  2. insomnia
  3. agitation
  4. worthlessness
  5. suicidal
  6. poor concentration
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What is the TX for both depression and dysthymic?

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  1. personal therapy
  2. drugs
  3. ECT
  4. nutrition
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What is SAD?

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Seasonal Affect Disorder

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What is the TX for SAD?

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  1. Light
  2. exerciese
  3. comfort foods
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What is the term for altered reality?

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psychotic

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23
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Who is MC afflicted by schizophrenia?

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young adults

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What is the condition in which an individual has an altered reality, it is episodic, perception is altered, has hallucinations, delusions, hears voices, has disorganized speech, Alogia (poverty of speech) Avolition (lack of purposeful action or motivation)?

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Schizophrenia

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25
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What are the 5 types of Schizophrenia?

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  1. Disorganized
  2. Catatonic
  3. paranoid
  4. Schizophreniform
  5. Paraphrenia
26
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What is the worse type of schizophrenina?

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Catatonic (frozen face)

27
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Hebephrenic, unpredictable mood shifts portrays which type of schizophrenia?

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Disorganized

28
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Rigid posture, expresssions flat affect, “masked facies” portrays what type of schizophrenia?

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Catatonic

29
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Delusionss of persecution portrays which type of schizophrenia?

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Paranoid

30
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Adolescent/young adult onset, contradictory messages, short event (6 months) portrays which type of schizophrenia?

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Schizophreniform

31
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Which type of schizophrenia is seen in geriatrics as paranoia?

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Paraphrenia

32
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What is the term that describes an individual with no regard for self or others, abnormal lack of empathy, combines with strongly amoral conduct (no morality) masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal? Verbal therapy is not effective on this type of person.

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Psychopath

33
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What term describes an individual that believes they are superior, grandiose, lack of remorse, shallow emotions, need stimulation, pathological liar, and violent?

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Sociopath

34
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What term describes someone with multiple personalities, experienced a childhood trauma, and contition can be short term event?

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Dissociative

35
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What type of disorders are portrayed by exaggerations. Physical complaints with no organic pathology, entirely unconscious process?

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Somatoform disorders

36
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What is the disorder that causes a person to be convinced of a body flaw (real or imagined) and preoccupied with it (e.g. anorexia nervosa)?

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Dysmorphic disorder

37
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What are 3 types of food disorders? And describe each.

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  1. Anorexia Nervosa: fear of fat
  2. Bulimia: Binge & Purge (Barrett’s)
  3. Pica: eating things with no nutritional value
38
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What is the disorder that is a physical symptom caused by a psychic conflict.

(think of ray charles: he felt guilty for his brothers death even though it wasn’t his fault (psychic conflict) and then a few days later he went blind (physical symptom).

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Conversion disorder

39
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What is a hypochondriac?

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preoccupation with personal health or contracting illness

40
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What is a disorder that is aka Briquet’s syndorme and occurs in females under 30, involving multiple systems, and doesnt make sense as to why these “symptoms” are occuring?

(I eat crackers and my heart hurts)

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Somatization disorder

41
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What disorder is aka psychogenic pain disorder has an underlying emotional process, and the “pain” allows the escape from responsibility.

(pain doesnt make sense; when you touch my thumb my left eye hurts)

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Somatoform pain disorder

42
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What disorder has the individual believing they are invaded by insects, parasites. Delusional parasitosis?

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Morgellon’s disease

43
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What syndrome is present when an individual exaggerates personal complaints (wants attention)?

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Munchausen syndrome

44
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What is it known as when a caregiver inflicts harm on individual they are caring for?

(so they can get attention; pushes kid down stairs so they can take them to the hospital and complain about how wreckless their kid is?

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Munchausen by proxy

45
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What type of disorders cause worry and fear?

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Anxiety Disorders

46
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What disorder does an individual have if they are in constant excessive fear, hypervigilant. Have symptoms of twitching, sweating, dry mouth, HA, stomach ache, urinary frequency?

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General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

47
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What conditions can cause General Anxiety Disorder?

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  1. Heart failure
  2. head injury
  3. hormone imbalance
  4. endocrine disease
  5. pneumonia & COPD
48
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What drugs can cause General anxiety disorder?

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  1. cannabis
  2. analgesics
  3. caffeine
  4. amphetamines
49
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What do panic attacks occur with?

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  1. GAD
  2. phobias
  3. OCD
  4. PTSD
50
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What is globis hestaricus?

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feeling like you can’t swallow

51
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What are the two types of phobias?

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  1. Social
  2. Specific
52
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What is a social phobia?

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Provoked by people or performance issues

53
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What is a specific phobia?

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provoked by an object or situation

54
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What is Obsessive and what is compulsive and what are the actions of an individual with OCD?

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  1. obsessive = repetitive thoughts
  2. Compulsion = repetitive actions
  3. OCD actions: cleaning, checking, repeating, hoarding, toughing, arranging, mental rituals
55
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What is Fear and anxiety following an emotional event, and may include experiencing flashbacks, sleep disorders, fibromyalgia, MFS, RLS?

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PTSD

56
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What is it called in realit most of the time when someone is hard on themselves, and has a defense mechanism of working overtime? It can be treated with support and enlightenment?

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Neurosis

57
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What is the sexual disorder of liking abuse?

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Masochist

58
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What is the sexual disorder of inflicting abuse?

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Sadist

59
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What is the sexual disorder of enjoying watching others partake in intercourse?

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Voyeur

60
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What is the sexual disorder of enjoying showing others?

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Exhibitionist

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