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What are the 3 clusters of personality disorders?

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Cluster A - Odd and Eccentric
Cluster B - Dramatic, Erratic and Emotional
Cluster C - Anxious and Fearful

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What are the features of Paranoid personality disorder?

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  • They are constantly expecting to be harmed by others
  • Unwilling to confide or trust others
  • Finds threats in innocent remarks
  • Suspects partner of infidelity
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What are the features of Schizoid personality disorder?

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  • Prefers to be alone
  • Doesn’t desire close relationships
  • No interest in either praise or criticism
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What are the features of Schizotypal personality disorder?

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  • Evidence they are experiencing ideas of reference
  • Expresses odd beliefs and thinking in their speech and appearance
  • Paranoid ideation
  • Social anxiety and lack of friends
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What are the features of Antisocial personality disorder?

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  • Person is at least 18 years old
  • Disregard for the law
  • Is reckless, aggressive, deceitful and impulsive and does not show remorse
  • Unable to keep employment or study
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What are the features of Borderline personality disorder?

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  • Terrified of abandonment and actively attempts to avoid it
  • Experiences intense and unstable moods
  • Forms intense and unstable relationships
  • Experiences disturbances of identity
  • Impulsive self-destructive behaviours
  • Recurrent suidicual behaviours
  • Chronic feelings of emptiness and transient paranoia
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What are the features of Histrionic personality disorder?

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  • Craves to be the centre of attention
  • Displays inappropriately sexually behaviour
  • Lacks depth, uses speech to impress others
  • Prone to exaggeration and being dramatic
  • Exaggerates the degree of intimacy that they share with others
  • Easily led by others
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What are the features of Narcissistic personality disorder?

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  • Brims with self-importance and grandiosity
  • Preoccupied with fantasies of success, power, genius or beauty
  • Believe they are special and have a sense of entitlement
  • Are arrogant and need to be admired
  • Lack empathy and exploit others for their own benefit
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What are the features of Avoidant personality disorder?

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  • Fears disapproval, rejection and ridicule and avoids situations where that may occur
  • Avoids intimate relationships due to same reasons
  • Preoccupied with the fear of shame, rejection and ridicule
  • Constantly feels inferior and reluctant to take risks
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What are the features of Dependant personality disorder?

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  • Unable to make decisions without advice, reassurance or direction
  • Difficulty expressing approval
  • Experiences discomfort when alone and fears isolation
  • Lacks confidence and goes to great lengths to obtain support from others
  • Urgent need to establish a new relationship when one ends
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What are the features of Obsessive-complusive personality disorder?

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  • Prefers work rather than a social life
  • Hoards possessions
  • Preoccupied with details, rules, schedules and organisation
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What are antipsychotic medications used for?

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  • Main treatment for schizophrenia

* Assist brain to restore chemical balance by blocking dopamine receptors

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What is the difference between typical and atypical antipsychotics?

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Typical - treat the positive symptoms of schizophrenia

Atypical - treat both positive and negative symptoms with less side effects

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What are the features of antidepressants?

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  • Used to treat depression
  • Block neurotransmitter reuptake
  • Inhibit neaurotransmitter breakdown
  • Stimulate release of neurotranmitters
  • Increases levels of serotonin
  • Effects is within 2 to 3 weeks
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What are the key features of the mental health act?

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• Ensure proper protection of the patient as well as the public

  • Ensure that a person suffering from a mental illness receives the best care and treatment with least restriction of their freedom, rights and dignity
  • Minimise adverse effects of mental illness on family life
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What is the mental health acts definition of a mental illness?

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According the Mental Health Act (1996) a person has mental illness if she/he is suffering from a disturbance of thought, mood, volition, perception, orientation or memory that impairs judgement or behaviour to some extent.

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List each mental health act legal form and what they represent

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 Form 1- Referral by MP or AMHP for examination by psychiatrist within 24 hrs
 Form 2- Detention of voluntary patient at risk by SMHP in the absence of doctor for 6 hours
 Form 3 - Transport Order
 Form 4 - Detention for further assessment for 48 hrs
 Form 5 - Order for receival into authorised hospital for further assessment for 72 hrs
 Form 6 - Involuntary patient order. Patient is detained for 28 days
 Form 7 - Transfer between authorised hospitals
 Form 8 - No longer involuntary patient
 Form 9 - Continuation of involuntary order for up 6 months
 Form 10 - Community Treatment Order (CTO)
 Form 11 – Revocation of a CTO
 Form 12 - Extending or varying a CTO
 Form 13 - Breach of CTO
 Form 14 - Order to attend treatment

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What is the biomedical theory?

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• Asserts that normal behaviour is a consequence of equilibrium within the body and that abnormal behaviour results from pathological bodily or brain function

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What is the psychoanalytical theory?

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• Developmental factors and family relationships determine human behaviour and mental illness is a consequence of fixation at a particular developmental stage or a conflict that has not been resolved.

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What is the behaviour theory?

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• Emphasises the importance of the environment in shaping behaviour. Focuses more on the human behaviour than on the mind

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What is the cognitive theory?

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• Suggests people actively interpret their environment and cognitively construct their world. How one thinks about a situation will influence how they act in that situation

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What is the interpersonal relationship theory?

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• Focuses on the nurse-client relationship and identify the different roles nurses take on when working with clients

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What is dissociative amnesia?

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Is where a person is experiencing memory loss, but they also realise they are experiencing memory loss. It could last a few days or even years

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What is localised amnesia?

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Where a person will have no memory of a traumatic event, but will be able to recall details in a few days

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What is selective amnesia?

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What a person will have patchy or incomplete memories of a traumatic event

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What is generalised amnesia?

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What a person will have no memory of their entire life

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What is systematised amnesia?

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Where a person will have very specific amnesia. Eg, they may not remember one relative in particular

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What is dissociative fugue?

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Where a person suddenly cannot remember who they are or anything about their life

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What is dissociative identity disorder?

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Also know as multiple personality disorder, where a person has 2 different personalities living inside them.

30
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Explain the aetiological factors of substance abuse

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Absorption: getting the drug to the bloodstream
Distribution: transporting the drug via bloodstream across the membrane to the site of action
Metabolism: making the drug less fat-soluble and more water soluble
Excretion: eliminating the drug from the body

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What are the sign and symptoms of alcohol withdrawal syndrome?

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Shakes within the first 24 hours
Hypertension, restlessness, sweating, diarrhoea, headache, difficulty sleeping, decreased appetite and anxiety.
Also sometimes seizures

32
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What is depression?

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Is a common mental disorder characterised by sadness, loss of interest, feelings of guilt or low self worth, disturbed sleep and appetite.

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What is mania?

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Is a mental illness marked by periods of great excitement, euphoria, delusions and over activity

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What are the signs and symptoms of depression?

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Persistently being sad or anxious. Decreased energy, fatigue, weight or appetite.
Difficulty concentrating, making decisions and loss in interests and hobbies.

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What are the signs and symptoms of mania?

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Inflated self esteem or grandiosity. A decreased need of sleep, more talkative, racing ideas or thoughts.

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