Psychiatric And Behavioral Disorders Flashcards
Interfere with core life functions (eating. Sleeping, ability to maintain housing, interpersonal or sexual relations
Pose threat to life or well being of patient or others
Significantly deviate from society expectations or norm
Objective factor that may indicate behavioral or psychological condition
Persons observable conduct and activity
Behavior
Common EMS intervention is required because
Patients failure to take psychiatric medications
Biological (organic)
Psychosocial
Sociocultural
Causes of behavioral emergencies
Physical rather than psychological
Infections and tumors; structural changes in brain such as those brought on by abuse of alcohol or drugs.
Many psychiatric conditions originate from alterations in brain chemistry
Biological
Personal conditions : personality style, dynamics of unresolved conflict, crisis management methods
These disorders not attributable to substance-abuse the medical conditions
Environment plays a large part in psychosocial development
Psychosocial
Situational causes related to patients actions and interactions within society
Factors such as Socio economic status social habits social skills values
Attributable to events that changed patient social space social isolation or impact on Socialization
Rape
Assault
Socio-cultural
Develops over months, irreversible
Disturbance in executive functioning impaired ability to plan organize or sequence
Significantly impaired social or occupational functioning significant decline from previous level of function
Dementia
Significant change in behavior and loss of contact with reality
Definitive cause unknown
Diagnosis is two or more symptoms present from significant portion of each month over course of six months
Schizophrenia
State of uneasiness , discomfort apprehension restlessness
Anxiety
Numbness or tingling sensations
Peresthesia
Significant distress or impairment in social occupational or other functions.
Depression
One or more manic episodes with or without subsequent or alternating periods of depression
Bipolar disorder
Desire to use substance inability to reduce or stop use repeated efforts to quit
Psychological dependence
Need for increased amounts of chemical to obtain desired effect presence of withdrawal symptoms
Physical dependence
Preoccupied with no apparent physiological cause
Somatoform disorder
Intentional production of physical or psychological signs or symptoms
Factitous disorder
Attempt to avoid stressful situations while still gratifying needs.
Permit person to deny personal responsibility for unacceptable behavior
Disassociative disorder
Excessive fasting intense fear of obesity complain of being fat even though bodyweight is low
Anorexia nervosa
Recurrent episodes of uncontrollable binge eating self-induced vomiting or diarrhea excessive exercise or dieting full awareness of behaviors abnormality.
Personality traits are perfectionism low self-esteem social withdrawal
Bulimia nervosa
Act odd or eccentric
Personality disorder cluster A
Dramatic emotional fearful
Personality disorder cluster B
Appear anxious or fearful
Personality disorder cluster C
Reoccurring failure to resist impulses to steal objects not for immediate use or monetary value
Kleptomania
