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Mental Health- exam 1

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Mental health

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the Ability to "cope with and adjust to the recurrent stresses of living in the acceptable way"

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Mental health is influenced by three factors

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  • inherited characteristics
  • childhood nurturing ( neglected as a baby not giving basic essentials)
  • life circumstances

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Individual is mentally ill when behaviors

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  • interfere with daily activities
  • impair judgement
  • alter reality

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Hippocrates

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viewed mental illness as an imbalance of humans (air, fire, water, and earth)

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mental illness was at last being recognized without bias around 1400's

(t/f)

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true

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by the mid-1500, behaviors were accurately recorded for personalities associated with melancholia (depression), mania, and psychopathology

(t/f)

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true

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when is the only time someone will lose their rights ?

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when they are put into restraints

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when did psychiatry develop a separate branch of medicine?

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in the 18th century

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Dorothea dix

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surveyed asylums, jails, and almshouses. because of her voice, care and mentally ill greatly improved.

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psychonalysis

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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

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ECT treatment

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improves depression and is implanted when a patient with severe depression is not responding to treatment or tolerating antidepressant agents

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what is insulin therapy used for ?

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schizophrenia

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lobotomy

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a surgical procedure that serves the frontal lobes of the brain from the thalamus, performed to eliminate violent behaviors

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electroconvulsive therapy (shock therapy)

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Only used as a last stitch effort for those with severe depression

-consent is needed

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posttramatic stress disorder

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leaves a person with persistent memories of the event with symptoms occurring 3 months or more after the event

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normal lithium

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0.6-1.2

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lithium

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no added salts on foods!

-excess salt is no good and can become hypokatremic

-putting self at risk for seizures

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what is lithium used for ?

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bipolar

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thorazine

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useful in controlling many behaviors observed in schizophrenia and other psychoses

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we always rule out anything medical first before we label them with a psych disorder

(t/f)

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true

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duel diagnosis

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a mental health diagnosis with a substance abuse diagnosis

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deinstitutionalization

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shutting all mental health facilities down

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NAMI

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big organization for mental health

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an individual's mental health is influenced except for

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economics

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always connect Sigmund freud with psychoanalysis

(t/f)

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true

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health care in the United States- more than what percentage of Americans have no insurance ?

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more than 15%

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impatient care provides clients with what?

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safe, stale, and therapeutic surroundings 24 hours a day

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client may be committed to psychiatric care by what?

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way of criminal justice system

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if patient volunteers themselves to mental hospital, they are able to sign themselves out

(t/f)

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true

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if you are 302, are you able to sing your self out?

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no, you cannot sign yourself out. you have to be elevated to make sure you are safe.

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recidivism

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revolving door when you go in and out of a facility

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holistic

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taking care of the total patient spiritually and emotionally

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difference between psychiatrics and psychologist

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psychiatrics can write prescriptions , psychologist cannot

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certain groups of people in every community are at high risk for developing mental health problems:

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  • homeless people
  • children, families, adolescents, and older adults
  • people who are HIV postiive
  • vertens
  • clients who live in rural areas

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2 instances you are able to break HIPPA

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  • 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"