Mood and Affect Flashcards
How is the term mood defined?
The way a person feels
How is affect defined?
The observable response a person has to his or her own feelings
What is flat affect?
No emotion.
What is the mood spectrum?
It is a continuum of all possible mods that any person may experience.
WWhat is mania?
Mental illness marked by periods of great excitement, euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.
WHat is depression?
A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life
What does regulation of mood involve?
Proper functioning and coordination of multiple brain structures and neurotransmitters
What three hormones are affected when the activity gets disturbed in neurotransmitters of the brain?
- Dopamine
- Norepinephrine
- Serotonin
What is dopamine?
- A neurotransmitter that helps control the brains reward and pleasure centers.
- Also helps regulate movement and emotional responses
What lifespan considerations should be taken?
-emotional regulation normally evolves throughout lifespan
What are some consequences of mood spectrum disorders?
- change in interpersonal relationships
- limited productivity
- reduced functional ability
- higher use and need for medical care
- increased potential for suicide
Everyone has times of excitement and depression in their lives, when does it become a real issue?
When it lasts a long time.
What are the risk factors of mood and affect disorders?
- being female
- 20s/early 30s, late 60s
- stress, early trauma, neglect, abuse, family history, comorbid medical and psychiatric disorders, personality disorders, substance dependence
Wha types of health care settings might you discover mood and affect disorders?
ALL health care settings
How may affective instability present?
As a combination of:
- Agitation
- sadness
- elation
- blunting (flat affect)
How may speech sound during blunting?
Monotone, with responses being unusually brief
Affect is the combined interaction of what?
Mood, energy, and cognition
Nurses should know the common indicators of these key findings:
- Persistent mood disturbances
- functional impairment
- disturbed vegetative functioning
Wha this included in a mental status assessment?
—general appearance
- motor activity
- mood
- affect
- speech and speech content
- alertness and orientation
- cognitive processes: perception, insight and memory
What is the min-mental state exam?
30 point questionnaire given to measure cognitive impairment
Are there any diagnostic tests for mood and affect disorders?
No.
What is a good question to always ask?
Have you ever considered harming yourself?
Followed by do you have a plan.
What is the primary prevention of mood and affect disorders?
Though to be a reduction of poverty, racism, violence, and stress (debatable if effective)
What are secondary preventions of mood and affect disorders?
Early detention by screening
Where are some examples of collaborative care for mood and affect disorders?
- motivational interviewing
- psychotherapy
- pharmacotherapy
- brain stimulation therapy
- management of emergent situations (suicide/violence to others
Cognition and addiction affect a person’s mood and affect which in turn affects?
A patients functional ability.
