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Question 1

What type of activity would you do with depressed people?

Answer 1

Go outside, look at the bird feeders

Question 2

ineffective coping with stress that causes mild interpersonal disorganization

Answer 2

Neurosis

Question 3

out of touch with reality and have impaired judgment, perception and hallucinations and delusions

Answer 3

psychosis

Question 4

Nurses MUST report any intent of a patient to hurt himself

Question 5

Mental disorders are classified by

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DSM-V: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders-V

Question 6

Heredity accounts for

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60%-80% of mood disorders.

Question 7

Bi Polar- also called manic- depressive disorder

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Either up or down. Goes from over activity to under activity

Question 8

Warning signs of suicide

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Talking about it, Drug or alcohol abuse, difficulty concentrating on work or school, personality changes.

Question 9

Delirium-

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a change in consciousness that occurs rapidly over a short time. Hallucinations.

Question 10

Delirium that happens only in the evening and night time causing disorientation and agitation is

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sundowning syndrome

Question 11

dementia

Answer 11

an altered mental state caused by cerebral disease.

Question 12

Prodromal Stage

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the beginning of schizophrenia showing no energy and complaining of multiple physical problems

Question 13

Schizophrenia-

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non-reality based thinking

Question 14

With schizophrenia, positive or excessive behaviors are

Answer 14

delusions, hallucinations, disordered thinking.

Question 15

Disordered thinking is when

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patient is not making sense with words The prognosis is good for schizophrenic patients who experience positive behavior like previously mentioned.

Question 16

hallucinations can cause them to believe they are talking to dead people and they think they are alive and attending events.

Question 17

Schizophrenia causes loose association which is a type of disordered thinking that occurs when

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the individual cannot interpret information and the conversation does not flow.

Question 18

Catatonic schizophrenia is when

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the patient maintains a rigid pose for a long period of time.

Question 19

Anxiety traits

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means that the patient is getting anxious over something like her nail polish chipping

Question 20

Panic Attack

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an attack of acute, intense and overwhelming anxiety- Help patient through the even by coaching in relaxation techniques like deep breathing.
Med signs- tachycardic, have chest pain, tremble, and feel like they are choking and can’t breathe.

Question 21

Agoraphobia

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type of panic disorder when the patient is scared to leave their house for extended amount of time. They get anxious from being around other people or places or going to events.

Question 22

Anxiety tension-

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People with obsessive compulsive disorder keep checking things over and over again

Question 23

inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior or thinking are associated with

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significant impairment of functioning

Question 24

Gender identity disorder

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sexual identity conflicts with gender perception. When people think they are born in the wrong body the correct terminology is transsexualism.

Question 25

Somatic symptom disorder

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patient complains of multiple physical problems but there is no cause found for them

Question 26

Anorexia nervosa

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eating disorder characterized by self-imposed starvation.It typically develops in the early to middle stages of adolescence. This self-starvation can lead to death

Question 27

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)-electric current delivered to cause a seizure. Effective treatment for patients who do not respond to other treatments. Memory loss is temporary after procedure.

Answer 27

Usually 10 treatments over several weeks. Patients cannot drive after an ECT so make sure they have transportation

Question 28

Psychoanalysis

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psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud to allow a patient’s unconscious thought to be brought to the surface
such as thoughts and feelings and emotions

Question 29

Alternative Therapies

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Use of natural or herbal medications has gained tremendous popularity.