Psychiatry Flashcards
4 P’s of the biopsychosocial model
- Predisposing
- Precipitating
- Perpetuating
- Protective
Suicide Risk Factors
SAD PERSONS
- Sex: male
- Age: >60
- Depression
- Previous attempts
- Ethanol abuse
- Rational thinking lost (i.e. Delusions, hallucinations, hopelessness)
- Suicide in family
- Organized plan
- No spouse
- Serious illness
(Think of the young 29y/o punk in PICU)
Important elements (4) to a safety plan
- Not harm themselves
- Avoid drugs, EtOH, and triggers
- Follow up at designated time
- Go to Emerg, call HCP, or call someone
Important elements (3) to a safety plan
- Not harm themselves
- Avoid drugs, EtOH, and triggers
- Follow up at designated time
- Go to Emerg, call HCP, or call someone
Time line for:
- Brief psychotic disorder
- Schizophreniform disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Brief psychotic disorder
- Schizophreniform disorder 1-6 months
- Schizophrenia > 6 months
Schizoaffective Disorder: DSM 5 Criteria
2 weeks or more with no mood symptoms
DSM 5 criteria for Schizophrenia
6 months of disturbanc, with at least 1 month of continuous symptoms (min 1 from each list) + _>_3 of the following:
Positive symptoms:
- Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Disorganized speech
- Disorganized or catatonic behaviors
Negative symptoms
- Anhedonia, avolition, alogia, affective blunting Think of ‘Robert’
Basic activities of daily living
DEATH
- Dressing
- Eating
- Ambulating
- Toileting
- Hygiene
Instrumental activities of daily living
SHAFT
- Shopping
- Housekeeping
- Accounting
- Food-preparation
- Transportation
Types of Dementia
- Alzheimer’s (60-70%)
- Vascualar (10-20%)
- Lewey body (10-20%)
- Frontatemporal/Pick’s (5-15%)
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Hungtington’s Disease
CAM
Confusion Assessment Method
Guideline taught to nurses to assess baseline cognition for every patient over 65 years of age.
Delerium Accronym
DIMS-O
- Drugs/Drug withdrawal
- Infection
- Metabolic
- Structural
- Organ System
PRISME
Identify and addresses factors contributing to delerium
- P: pain, poor nutrition
- R: retention, restraints
- I: infection, inmobility
- S: skin, sleep, sensory deficits
- M: mental status, metabollic, medications
- E: environment
4 Traditional Anti-Psychotics
- Haloperidol
- Loxapine
- Chlorpromazine
- Perphenazine
5 Atypical Antipsychotics
- Aripiprazole (AbilifyTM)
- Clozapine (ClozarilTM)
- Olanzapine (ZyprexaTM)
- Risperidone (ResperidolTM)
- Quitiapine (SeroquelTM)
Benzodiazapine list
- Lorazipam is Ativan
- Diazepam is Valium
- Oxazepam is Serax
- Clonazepam
Venlafazine (EffexorTM)
- Drug class
- SNRI
Extra Pyramidal Symptoms
TAP’D
- Tardive Dyskinesia - abnormal involuntary movement disorder (SSRI’s & antipsycotics)
- Akathesia
- Pseudoparkinsonianism
- Akinesia/Bradykinesia
- Rigidity
- Rabbit Tremor
Tardive Dyskinesia
- Involuntary muscle movement
- Starts months after meditcation
- Often permanent; non-treatable with benztropine
- Generally starts around mounth and tongues
- Can get grinding teeth (can lose teeth)
- Can spread to other parts of the body
- Tx: ween the patient off the offender
Akathisia
- The preception of restlessness
- Onset weeks after offender
- Tx: beta-blockers
General anti-psychotic side effects
- EPS (risperidone)
- Sedation (quitiapine)
- Dizziness/Orthostatic Hypotension (quitiapine)
- Anti-cholinergic effects (olanzapine)
- Metabollic syndrome (olanzapine!)
Symptoms treated by Anti-Psychotics
- Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Physical/verbal aggression
- Manic-like
- Sexually inappropriate behaviour
Major Neurodegnerative
6 Common SSRI’s
- Sertraline (ZoloftTM)
- Escitalopram (CipralexTM)
- Citalopram (CelexaTM)
- Paroxetine (PaxilTM)
- Fluoxetine (ProzacTM)
- Fluvoxamine
Common Anti-cholinergic Side-effects
- Confusion
- Dry mouth
- Urinary retention
- Constipation
- Exacerbation of closed angle glaucoma
- Delirium
- Tachycardia
Define: Countertransference
The therapists emotional response to the patient
- Can be related to therapist’s past relationships
- Can be in response to unconscious pressure from patient to behave in a certain way
- Two types
- Concordant CT: therapist experiences patient’s emotions
- Complementary CT: therapist experiences the emotions of patient’s hisotircal caregiver
Three types of Defense Mechanisms
- Primitive (i.e. splitting, projection, denial)
- Neurotic (i.e. intellectualisation, repression)
- Mature (i.e. alturism, humour)
Explain Projection and Projective Identification
Patient will internalize aspects of absuer, but cannot accept the feelings and impulses and project them to others, making the others be abusive.
Define: Splitting
Splitting (also called black and white thinking or all-or-nothing thinking) is the failure in a person’s thinking to bring together both positive and negative qualities of the self and others into a cohesive, realistic whole. It is a common defense mechanism used by many people.
i.e. “You’re the best psychiatrist. The other ones were wrong about everything.”
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Techniques
- Uncover unconscious thoughts
- Pay attention to Freudian slips/parapraxes
- Free associations
- Dreams
- Observe defense mechanisms as they happen
- Monitor transferDence/counter transference
Psychodynamic Psycotherapy Applications
Neurotic level disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Conversion disorders
- Dysthymic disorder
- Mood disorders (mild-moderate)
- Personality disorders (mild-moderate)
The 4 Hateful Paitents
+ Solutions
- DEPENDENT CLINGERS: needy, seductive, grateful; early on say “I’m ony human” and set boundaries
- ENTITLED DEMANDERS: hostile, narsisstic; say “you are entitled to the very best medical care, but you must help us.”
- MANIPULATIVE HELP-REJECTERS: moms, needy; share pessimism/warn medications often fail
- SELF-DESTRUCTIVE DENIERS: help them anyway. That’s all.
Define: CBT
- Aaron Beck (father of CBT) - relautionship between thought, emotions, and behviours; emotions are hard to change, so target the other two
- Judith Beck (daughter) - focus on here and now (next week)
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Dysfunctional Congntions
- Automatic thoughts (rapid responses
- Maladaptive schemas (i.e. “I will never succeed”)
10 Common Automatic Cognitive Distortions
Jammed Slop
- Jumping to conclusions
- All or nothing thinking
- Magnifying/minimising
- Mental filter
- Emotional reasoning
- Discounting the positive
- ‘Shoulds’
- Labeling
- Overgeneralization
- Personalisation
Formula for Anxiety
(Perceived probability of event X Perceieved severity of event) / Perceived ability to cope
DBT Skill Modultes
- Mindfulness
- Interpersonal effectiveness
- Distress tolerance
- Emotion regulation
IPT Uses
Adjunctive treatment in Bipolar disorder (combine with social rhythm therapy)
Treatment for MDD, bulimia, and dysthymia
Define: pseudocyesis
Patient who is not pregnant shows signs and symptoms of pregnancy, including abdominal distension, breast enlargement, pigmentation, cessation of menses, and morning sickness.
Define: Adynamia
Weakness and fatigability
Define: acathexis
lack of feeling associated with an ordinarily emotionally charged subject
Define: alexithymia
Inability/difficulty describing or being aware of emotions/mood
Define: sundowning
Syndrome in older people, often at night, characterized by drowsiness, confusion, ataxia, and falling; overly sedated with medications
Define: coprophagia
eating of feces
Define: polyphagia
pathological overeating
Differentiate between:
- Circumstantiality
- Tangentiality
- Flight of Ideas
- Loosening of associations
- Pressure of speech
- Circumstantiality -indirect, but reaches the point
- Tangentiality - indirect, but never reaches point
- Flight of Ideas - constant shifting between ideas, sometimes able to follow
- Loosening of associations - unrelated shifting between ideas, can reach incoherence
- Pressure of speech - rapid speech and difficult to interrupt
Differentiate between:
- Tactile Hallucination
- Somatic Hallucination
- Tactile: False perception of touch or surface sensation (i.e. phantom limb, formication)
- Somatic: false sensation of thins in or to the body (usually visceral in origin)
Differentiate between:
- Depersonalization
- Derealization
- A person’s subjective sense of being unreal, strange, or unfamiliar
- A subjective sense that the environment is strange or unreal; a feeling of changed reality
Differentiate between:
- Thought broadcasting
- Throughs of inference
- Thought broadcasting:
- Throughs of inference
DSM 5 Criteria for Depressive Episode
5 of the following, including at least one of the first two, for at least 2 weeks and cause FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT
- Depressed mood
- Anhedonia
- Sleep distrubances
- Feelings of guilt/worthlessness
- Energy low
- Poor concentration
- Increased/decreased appetite/weight
- Psychomotor slowing
- Suicide ideation
DSM 5 criteria for manic episode
At least 1 week of 3 the following, plus the first 1 (or 4 plus the first one, if mood is irritible); and cause FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT:
- Abnormally persistent expansive, elevated or irritible mood
- Distractibility
- Insomnia
- Grandiose delusion
- Flight of ideas
- Activity focused/goal oriented
- Speech pressured
- Thoughtlessness (high risk activities with consequences)
DSM 5 criteria for mixed episode
Criteria is fully met for manic and depressive episode, minimum 1 week.
NOTE: like mania, a psychiatric emergency