Perfect Score Sa Exam (elefan) Flashcards
Schizophrenia
High Dopamine
Parkinson’s
Low dopamine
Alzheimer’s
Low acetylcholine
Huntington’s
Low acetylcholine
Mania
High serotonin
Depression
Low serotonin
Anxiety
Low GABA
THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION FOR NURSES
Active Listening
Broad Openings
Accepting
Clarifying
Exploring
Focusing
Reflecting
Restating
attentively to ensure
understanding.
Active listening
allow patient to take
initiative.
Broad opening
indicate you heard the patient
without judgement
Accepting
make vague topics clear.
Clarifying
examine topic deeper.
Exploring
putting attention into single topic
Focusing
direct patient’s thoughts and
feelings back to patient
Reflecting
repeat patient’s words in a
different way to make clearer.
Restating
Is an
unconscious
mechanism
employed by the
ego to keep
disturbing or
threatening
thoughts
becoming
conscious.
Repression
Involves blocking
external events
from awareness.
If some
situation is just
too much too
much to handle,
the person just
refuses to
experience it.
Denial
This involves
individuals
attributing their
own
unacceptable
thoughts, feeling
and motives to
another person.
Projection
Satisfying an
impulse (e.g.
aggression) with
a substitute
object
Displacement
This is a
movement back
in psychological
time when one is
faced with
stress.
Regression
Satisfying an
impulse (e.g.
aggression) with
a substitute
object.
In a socially
acceptable wa
Sublimation
FACTORS AFFECTING MENTAL ILLNESS
Individual Factors
Interpersonal Factor
Social and Cultural
3 MAIN TYPES OF TEMPERAMENT
Extrovert
Introvert
Ambivert
