Mental health
the Ability to "cope with and adjust to the recurrent stresses of living in the acceptable way"
Mental health is influenced by three factors
- inherited characteristics
- childhood nurturing ( neglected as a baby not giving basic essentials)
- life circumstances
Individual is mentally ill when behaviors
- interfere with daily activities
- impair judgement
- alter reality
Hippocrates
viewed mental illness as an imbalance of humans (air, fire, water, and earth)
mental illness was at last being recognized without bias around 1400's
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by the mid-1500, behaviors were accurately recorded for personalities associated with melancholia (depression), mania, and psychopathology
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when is the only time someone will lose their rights ?
when they are put into restraints
when did psychiatry develop a separate branch of medicine?
in the 18th century
Dorothea dix
surveyed asylums, jails, and almshouses. because of her voice, care and mentally ill greatly improved.
psychonalysis
developed in the early 1900's by neurophysiologist Sigmund freud.
- the first comprehensive theory of mental illness based on observation
- based on the theme of repressed sexual energies
- freud believed that forces within and outside the personality caused mental illness
ECT treatment
improves depression and is implanted when a patient with severe depression is not responding to treatment or tolerating antidepressant agents
what is insulin therapy used for ?
schizophrenia
lobotomy
a surgical procedure that serves the frontal lobes of the brain from the thalamus, performed to eliminate violent behaviors
electroconvulsive therapy (shock therapy)
Only used as a last stitch effort for those with severe depression
-consent is needed
posttramatic stress disorder
leaves a person with persistent memories of the event with symptoms occurring 3 months or more after the event
normal lithium
0.6-1.2
lithium
no added salts on foods!
-excess salt is no good and can become hypokatremic
-putting self at risk for seizures
what is lithium used for ?
bipolar
thorazine
useful in controlling many behaviors observed in schizophrenia and other psychoses
we always rule out anything medical first before we label them with a psych disorder
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duel diagnosis
a mental health diagnosis with a substance abuse diagnosis
deinstitutionalization
shutting all mental health facilities down
NAMI
big organization for mental health
an individual's mental health is influenced except for
economics
always connect Sigmund freud with psychoanalysis
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health care in the United States- more than what percentage of Americans have no insurance ?
more than 15%
impatient care provides clients with what?
safe, stale, and therapeutic surroundings 24 hours a day
client may be committed to psychiatric care by what?
way of criminal justice system
if patient volunteers themselves to mental hospital, they are able to sign themselves out
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if you are 302, are you able to sing your self out?
no, you cannot sign yourself out. you have to be elevated to make sure you are safe.
recidivism
revolving door when you go in and out of a facility
holistic
taking care of the total patient spiritually and emotionally
difference between psychiatrics and psychologist
psychiatrics can write prescriptions , psychologist cannot
certain groups of people in every community are at high risk for developing mental health problems:
- homeless people
- children, families, adolescents, and older adults
- people who are HIV postiive
- vertens
- clients who live in rural areas
2 instances you are able to break HIPPA
- SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE
- PATIENT comes in saying things like "I am going kill my barber and I mean it, I know where they are located"