Unit review Flashcards
What are the 3 clusters of personality disorders?
Cluster A - Odd and Eccentric
Cluster B - Dramatic, Erratic and Emotional
Cluster C - Anxious and Fearful
What are the features of Paranoid personality disorder?
- They are constantly expecting to be harmed by others
- Unwilling to confide or trust others
- Finds threats in innocent remarks
- Suspects partner of infidelity
What are the features of Schizoid personality disorder?
- Prefers to be alone
- Doesn’t desire close relationships
- No interest in either praise or criticism
What are the features of Schizotypal personality disorder?
- 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
What are the features of Antisocial personality disorder?
- 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
What are the features of Borderline personality disorder?
- 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
What are the features of Histrionic personality disorder?
- 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
What are the features of Narcissistic personality disorder?
- 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
What are the features of Avoidant personality disorder?
- 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
What are the features of Dependant personality disorder?
- 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
What are the features of Obsessive-complusive personality disorder?
- Prefers work rather than a social life
- Hoards possessions
- Preoccupied with details, rules, schedules and organisation
What are antipsychotic medications used for?
- Main treatment for schizophrenia
* Assist brain to restore chemical balance by blocking dopamine receptors
What is the difference between typical and atypical antipsychotics?
Typical - treat the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Atypical - treat both positive and negative symptoms with less side effects
What are the features of antidepressants?
- 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
What are the key features of the mental health act?
• 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
What is the mental health acts definition of a mental illness?
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.
List each mental health act legal form and what they represent
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
What is the biomedical theory?
• Asserts that normal behaviour is a consequence of equilibrium within the body and that abnormal behaviour results from pathological bodily or brain function
What is the psychoanalytical theory?
• 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.
What is the behaviour theory?
• Emphasises the importance of the environment in shaping behaviour. Focuses more on the human behaviour than on the mind
What is the cognitive theory?
• 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
What is the interpersonal relationship theory?
• Focuses on the nurse-client relationship and identify the different roles nurses take on when working with clients
What is dissociative amnesia?
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
What is localised amnesia?
Where a person will have no memory of a traumatic event, but will be able to recall details in a few days
