Other Mental Health Conditions Flashcards
Describe impact of emotional trauma on development
- Disruptions in childhood emotional development may result in long-term difficulties in emotion regulation
- Symptoms of many adult conditions is difficulty with emotional regulation
What are conditions related to expression of emotion or emotional regulation?
- Dissociation
- PTSD
- Borderline personality disorder
- Substance misuse
- Bipolar disorder
- Disruptive, impulse-control and conductive disorders
Describe what emotion is
- A strong feeling deriving from one’s circumstances, mood or relationships with others
- Evaluate mental state produced by neural impulse
What is emotional regulation?
Describes an individual’s efforts to be aware of and skilfully manage emotional states
- Learn how to recognise emotions
- Experience emotions instead of pushing away
What is emotional dysregulation?
- Emotional responses that are not adaptive
- Negative emotion but can also be positive
- Interferes with achieving a goal
What are personality disorders?
An enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture.
What is in cluster A of personality disorders?
- Paranoid, Schizoid, and schizotypal
- Discomfort in interpersonal situations, emotionally distant, distrustful and suspicious
What is in cluster B of personality disorders?
- Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic
- Excessive & unstable expression of emotions, difficulties in relationships, disregard for needs of others
What is in cluster C of personality disorders?
-Avoidant, Dependant, Obsessive-Compulsive
Anxiety is a key issue -Fear of rejection or humiliation, preoccupation with perfection
What are characteristics of borderline personality disorder?
- Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment
- Pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships
- Identity disturbance
- Impulsivity
- Recurrent suicidal behaviour
- Affective instability
- Reactivity of mood
- Chronic feelings of emptiness
- Inappropriate intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
- Transient, stress related paranoid ideation or sever dissociative symptoms
What is the impact of borderline personality disorder?
- Affects motivation for occupation
- Impact on habits & routines & flow on effects
- Instability and uncontrolled anger impacts areas of occupation
- Process skills (effects of dissociation and impulsivity)
What are interventions for personality disorders?
- Medications
- Interpersonal approach
- Collaborative therapeutic relationship that builds motivation for change
- Addressing occupational engagement
- Sensory based interventions
- Prevention
What is dialectical behaviour therapy?
- Validates person’s emotional functioning
- Core mindfulness
- Distress tolerance
- Interpersonal effectiveness
- Emotion regulation skills
Describe sensory approaches in mental health
Least restrictive practices and environments as grounding techniques
What is sensory sensitivity?
Require greater organisation of stimuli and elimination of irrelevant input.
