Psych Flashcards
Hypomania
- euphoric
- expansive affect
- little sleep
- lasts four days or less and does not impair an individual’s life
Mania
- impairs QOL
- hallucinations
- require temporary hospitalization because of the lack of judgment and insight.
Severe anxiety
- reduced and distorted perceptual field
- focuses on details or one specific detail
- attention is scattered
- inability to problem solve
- feeling of impending doom
Factious disorder
- faking symptoms
Antisocial Personality Disorder
- disregard rights of others
- lack of empathy/remorse
- engage in criminal activitiesment
- low adherance to treatment
- engage client and address resistance
Narcissistic personality disorder
- grandiosity
- exaggerated sense of self-importance
- attention seeking
Schizotypal personality disorder (SPD)
- social avoidance
- odd behavior
- eccentric behavior
- brightly dyed hair
- magical thinking!!!!!!
- illusions
- ideas of refrence
- random/irrevelant events are related to them somehow
- some paranoia
- appropraite self-esteem!!!!!!!
- key difference between avoidant personality disorder
- negative self-worth here
- key difference between avoidant personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
- similiar to schizotypal personality disorder (SPD)
- no magical thinking
- negative self-esteem
Bipolar disorder
- often seen in family history
Cluster A personality disorders
- paranoid
- mistrustful
- hostile
- schizoid
- aloof
- anhedonia (lack of interest)
- bizzare behavior
- magical thinking
Cluster B personality disorders
- antisocial
- doesn’t follow social norms
- borderline
- splitting
- crave attention
- histrionic (dramatic)
- seductive/provacative
- narcissistic
- grandiose
- craves admiration
Cluster C personality disorders
- avoidant
- feeling inadequate
- dependent (even trivial)
- helpless
- obsseive/compulsive
- rigid personality
- craves perfection/control
Anorexia nervosa
- hypokalemia
- abdominal distention
- weakness
- preform EKG
- U-wave
- ST depression
- shallow, flat, inverted T wave
- goal is gain 1 lb (0.5kg) a week
- no meds to treat
- cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
- first-line treatment for phobias
- repeated exposure to fear
- anxiety
- eating disorders!!!
- OCD
Behavioral psychotherapy
- substance related disorders
- operant conditioning (Skinner)
- aversion therapy
- desensitization therapy
- modeling
- stress-management
Psychoanalysis
- past and present issues
- anti-social personality disorders
Cognitive psychotherapy
- depresseion
- anxiety
- eating disorders
- alter perspective and attitude related to stressors
Mutual pretense
- end of life
- client and loved ones do not talk about death
- preserves degree of dignity and privacy
Avolition
- lack of motivation
- seen in hypothyroidism
Frued’s psychosexual theory
- anal
- toilet training
- individualism and separation
- toddler to preschool
- phallic stage
- emotional development
- latent stage
- genital stage
- start of purberty
Trichotillomania
- hair pulling
- OCD
- give SSRI
- fluoxetine
- citalopram
- paroxetine
PCA age
- young as 7
Reaction formation
- acts opposite to their true feelings or actions
- hate someone but act kind around them
Lawrence Kohlberg’s 6 Stages of Moral Development
- Stage 1
- pre-conventional
- 3-7 years
- morals based on reward
- Stage 2
- conventional
- 8-13
- morals based on wanting to be seen as good (good boy/girl)
- Stage 3
- post-conventional
- adulthood
- morals based on personal ethics
Domains of pain
- Reiki
- spirit domain
- Massage
- body domain
- Hypnosis
- mind domain
Dawn phenomenon
- hyperglycemia between 5AM-6AM
- release of cortisol, growwth hormone, adrenaline
Restraints
- client should never be prone
- can lead to suffocation
- discontinue as soon as possible
Borderline personality disorder
- unstable
- moods
- behavior
- relationships
- views people as “all good” or “all bad”
- devaluation
- splitting
- denial
- projection
- seek attention
- self-mutilation
- indiscriminate sex
Prodrome phase of schizophrenia
- negative symptoms appear gradually
- impact work, school, relationships
Acute phase of schizophrenia
- mild to severe psychotic symptoms
- delusions
- hallucinations
- impaired insight/judgement
- needs hospitalization
Stabilization phase of schizophrenia
- symptoms start to recede over weeks to months
Maintenance phase of schizophrenia
- positive symptoms go away
- negative symptoms may continue
- level of functioning partially restored