Psych Flashcards
Two things one should cover in a psych interview that might not normally be covered?
- Feelings
2. Relationships
Reasons confidentiality should not be kept in a psych interview
Admissions of:
- Abuse
- Suicidal ideation/homicidal ideation
What is the term to describe a historian that’s not the patient?
Collateral source
What events during early life should be asked about in a psych interview?
- Pregnancy and delivery
- Temparment and important family events
- Relationships
- Culture and relationships
A list of what should be made during a psych interview?
Previous psychiatric issues as well as treatments; in chronological order
A substance history in a psych interview should include what substance that might not otherwise be asked?
Caffeine
What are the four pillars of communication that a interview should practice during a psych interview?
- Attentive silence
- Facilitation (encouraging comments)
- Summarization
- Clarification (drawing connections)
Terms for rate of speech
- Rapid
- Slow
- Halting
Terms for amount of speech
- Taciturn (saying little)
- Lacking spontaneity
- Grandiose
Terms for tone of speech
- Monotone
- Singsong
- Slurred
Terms for speech impairments
- Dysarthric (muscle speech problem)
- Stuttering
- Echolalia
Term for not comprehending speech clearly
Aphasic
Difference between mood and affect
- Mood-how patient describes their emotional state
* Affect-how interview describes PTs emotional state
Labile affect
Sudden shifts in emotional state
Flat affect
Shallow or blunted emotional state
Tactile sensation of insects crawling over body
Formicaton
Feelings of movement in absence of movement (hallucination–not vertigo)
Kinesthetic hallucination
Hallucinations that occur while falling asleep
Hypnagogic hallucination
Hallucinations that occur while waking up
Hypnopompic hallucination
What are illusions
Misrepresentations of actually sensory input (occurs in schizophrenia but most common in delirium)
Depersonalization
Patients feel detached and unreal
Derealization
Objects in outside world feel altered, distorted, unreal
Shift of ideas from one to another with no logical connection
Loose associations
Patient wanders off subject but with clear connections between thoughts
Tangential thinking
Patient loses point of what they are saying but stay on the general topic
Circumstantiality
Patients mind goes blank
Blocking
Repetition of the same word or phrases, even when directed to stop
Perseveration
Direct repetition of interviewers words
Echolalia
Rapid speech with quick changes of ideas
Flight of ideas
Delusions
False beliefs that are outside of the PTs culture
Obsessions
Realized intrusive thoughts, ideas, impulses
Axis I: clinical syndromes (major disorders)
- Organic mental disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Depression
- Substance abuse
- etc
Axis II: General medical disorders (personality and developmental disorders)
- Maladaptive personality disorders
- Defense mechanisms
- Mental retardation
Axis III: General medical disorders
Physical disorders that might not be causing psych symptoms but that will affect the treatment
Axis IV: Psychosocial and environmental problems (stress that could trigger disorders)
Stresses that may affect the context in which the disorder developed
• PTSD
What is panic anxiety?
Anxiety that arises quickly and does not have particular content associated with it
Generalized anxiety disorder?
Worry about actual circumstances, events, or conflicts
What is panic disorder
Recurrent panic attacks with autonomic arousal
What are treatments for panic disorder?
- Antidepressants
- Benzodiazapines
- Cognitive behavior therapy
What is agoraphobia
Fear of being in a place where escape might be difficult or impossible
What is treatment for generalized anxiety disorder?
- SSRI
- SNRI
- Buspirone
- Benzodiazepines
- B-adrenergic
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
What are treatments for OCD
- Drug therapy
* Psychotherapy
What is the duration for PTSD?
Greater than one month
Acute stress disorder
What is the diagnosis for PTSD-like syndrome that lasts 2 days to 4 weeks?
What condition is mitral valve prolapse often correlated with?
Anxiety
What is Axis V?
- The GAF
* This is a score that shows how illness impacts PT and family (this can show progress of treatment)
What is supportive psychotherapy
Encourages teaching defensive strategies that are as adaptive as possible
What is psychodynamic psychotherapy
Uncover the psychological meaning of the anxiety and resolving unconscious conflict
What is systemic desensitization
- Teach relaxation
* Teach patient to visualize scene and pair it with comforting thoughts
SSRIs
- Antidepressants
- As effective as tricyclics
- Can be used for anxiety disorders
- Safer and less side effects
SNRIs
- For panic, anxiety, social phobias
* Side effects similar to SSRIs (maybe increased blood pressure)
Tricyclic antidepressants
- For generalized and panic anxiety, OCD
* Side effects - anticholinergic effects
MAOIs
- Atypical depression, panic disorders, social phobias, anxiety disorders
- More side effects with other drugs and food than SSRIs, SNRIs, used as a last line treatment
Buspirone
- Serotonin agonist
- For GAD
- Unlike benzos, not a rapid onset of action
- Generally well tolerated (maybe serotonin syndrome when put with MAOIs)
Benzodiazepines
- Increased GABA action
- Sedation, tolerance, dependence, respiratory depression
- Diazapam, lorazapam
Antipsychotic drugs
- Can be used to augment SSRIs, SNRIs for anxiety, PTSD, OCD
* Can produce tardive dyskinesis (which can outweigh benefits)
B-blockers for anxiety
This can be used to help with anxiety in patients that experience sympathetic symptoms with their attacks
What two psych conditions has NE been implicated in?
- Too little → depression
2. Too much → mania
How is dopamine linked to depression?
- Not as strongly as NE and serotonin
* Buproprion is dopaminergic
Low serotonin levels have been implicated with that?
Depression and mood disorders
What psych condition can be hypothyroid be mistaken for?
Depression