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| All major psychiatric disorders except mental retardation and personality disorders |
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| Mental retardation, personality disorders, maladaptive personality features, and defense mechanisms |
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| Current medical conditions |
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| Psychosocial and environmental problems, including problems with primary support group, social environment, education, occupation, housing, economics, access to health care and legal issues |
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| Global assessment of functioning (GAF) |
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| Indicators of Mental Health? |
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| Happiness, Control over one's behavior, appraisal of reality, effectiveness at work, and a healthy self-concept |
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| Definitions of mental health? |
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| WHO: State of complete physical, mental, and social wellness, not merely absence of disease or infirmity. A state of emotional, psychological, and social wellness evidenced by satisfying interpersonal relationships, effective behavior, and comping, a positive self concept, and emotional stability. Autonomy and independence; maximizing one's potential, tolerating life's uncertainties, self esteem, mastering the environment, reality orientation, and stress management. It is influenced by individual factors; interpersonal factors, and social/cultural factors. |
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| Some contributing factors to mental illness? |
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Individual
Interpersonal
Social/Cultural |
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| In psychoanalytic theory, the part of one's nature that reflects basic or innate desires such as pleasure seeking behavior, aggression, and sexual impulses? |
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| What is behavioral modification? |
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| Method of attempting to strengthen a desired response by reinforcement, either positive or negative |
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| What is the subconscious? |
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| Thoughts or feelings in the preconscious or unconscious level of awareness |
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| In psychoanalytic theory, the balancing or mediating force between the id and the superego; represents mature and adaptive behavior that allows a person to function successfully in the world. |
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| Occurs when the client displaces onto the therapist attitudes and feelings that the client originally experienced in other relationships. |
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| Theorist who is named the father of psychoanalysis and believed that repressed sexual impulses and desires motivate much human behavior. |
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| Theorist who extended Freud's work on personality development and created eight psychosocial stages of development. In his view, psychosocial growth occurs in sequential phases, and each stage is dependent on completion of the previous stage and life task. |
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| Interpersonal nursing theorist and clinician who developed the phases of the nurse-Patient relationship, and the four levels of anxiety. |
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| Theorist who formulated the hierarchy of needs, in which he used a pyramid to arrange and illustrate the basic drives or needs that motivate people. |
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| Influential behavior theorist who developed the theory of operant conditioning, which he says people learn their behavior from their history of past experiences, particularly those experiences that were repeatedly reinforced. |
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Failure to acknowledge an unbearable condition; failure to admit the reality of a situation or how one enables the problem to continue.
Ex: "I don't have a problem with authority, I just don't like people telling me what to do" |
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Expression of an emotional conflict through the development of a physical symptom, usually sensorimotor in nature.
Ex: blindness, paralysis |
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Excluding emotionally painful or anxiety provoking thoughts and feelings from conscious awareness.
Ex: "I don't remember anything about my assault" |
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Exhibiting acceptable behavior to make up or negate unacceptable behavior.
Ex: Child who does the dishes for his mother after staying out past his curfew |
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Conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts and feeling from conscious awareness?
Ex: "I'm not going to think about my son's speeding ticket today it will just distract me." |
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| Form of group therapy in which the client and his or her family members participate. |
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| What are education groups? |
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| Groups that provide information to members on a specific issue for instance, stress management, medication management, or assertiveness training. |
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| Members who share a common problem learn to cope with it |
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| What are Psychotherapy groups? |
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| Members learn about their behavior and to make positive changes in their behavior by interacting and communicating with others as a member of a group |
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| What are self-help groups? |
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| Members share a common experience, but the group is not a formal or structured group, these do not have a formal identified leader. |
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| Part of a person's nature that reflects moral and ethical concepts, values, and parental and social expectations; therefore it is the direct opposite of the Id. |
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| On going group that runs indefinitely; members join or leave the group as they need to. |
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| Concept involving client's interactions with one another; i.e. practicing interpersonal relationship skills, giving one another feedback about behavior, and working cooperatively as a group to solve day to day problems. |
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| Structured to keep the same members in the group for a specified number of sessions? |
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| What is countertransference? |
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| Occurs when the therapist displaces onto the client attitudes or feelings from his or her past; process can occur when the nurse responds to the client based on personal, unconscious needs and conflicts. |
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| What are anticholinergic side effects? |
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| Side effects such as dry mouth, constipation, urinary hesitancy or retention, dry nasal passages, and blurred near vision |
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| Intense need to move about; characterized by restless movement, pacing, inability to remain still, and the client's report of inner restlessness |
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| Acute muscular rigidity and cramping, a stiff or thick tongue with difficulty swallowing, and in severe cases, laryngospasm, and respiratory difficulties. |
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| What are stimulant drugs? |
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Amphetamines and other like drugs used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy
Ex: Cylert, Adderall, and Ritalin |
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| Another name for Antianxiety drugs, used to treat anxiety, anxiety disorders, insomnia, OCD, depression, PTSD, and alcohol withdrawal. |
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| What are benzodiazepines? |
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Subgroup of drugs that treat panic disorder, or generalized anxiety disorder that commonly cause psychological dependence.
Ex: Alprazolam (Xanax), Lorazepam (Ativan), Diazepam (Valium), Temazepam (Restoril) |
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| What are other antidepressants compounds (SRNIs)? |
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| Cenlafaxine (Effexor), Bupropion (Wellbutrin), Nefazodone (Serzone) are used for those clients who are potentially suicidal or highly impulsive because they carry on risk of lethal overdose. |
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| Drugs that have reaction with aged cheese that is used in lasagna and pizza, pepperoni, salami, summer sausage, avocado, tap beer, sauerkraut, soy sauce, yogurt, and peanuts. |
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| What are examples of typical or conventional antipsychotics? |
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| Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), Thioridazine (Mellaril), Thiothixene (Navane), Fluphenazine (Prolixin) and Haloperidol (Haldol) |
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| Because of a potentially fatal side effect of agranulocytosis clients must have weekly WBC's to obtain the next weeks supply of medication. |
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| Most prevalent neurotransmitter in the nervous system, located in the brain stem. Excess of this has been implicated in several anxiety disorders and deficits contribute to memory loss, social withdrawal and depression. |
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| What is the frontal lobe? |
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| Abnormalities in this lobe of the brain are associated with ADHD, schizophrenia, and dementia |
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| What is the limbic system? |
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| Disturbances in this part of the brain have been implicated in a variety of mental illnesses, such as the memory loss that accompanies dementia and the poorly controlled emotions and impulses seen with psychotic or manic behavior. |
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| Located primarily in the brain stem this has been found to be involved in the control of complex movements, cognition, and regulation of emotional responses. Antipsychotic medications work by blocking its activity. |
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| Found only in the brain, its function is mostly inhibitory, and is involved in the control of food intake, sleep and wakefulness, sexual behavior, and regulations of emotions. |
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| Group of antidepressants that are potentially lethal if taken in overdose? |
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| What is serotonin syndrome? |
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| Potentially serious drug interaction resulting from taking an MAOI and a SSRI at the same time or too close to the end of therapy with the other |
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| What is hypertensive crisis? |
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| Life threatening side effect occurring if the client ingests foods containing tyramine while taking MAOI's |
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| What is lithium toxicity? |
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| Occurs when the level of drug gets above the therapeutic range and causes symptoms like muscle weakness, severe diarrhea and vomiting and drowsiness. |
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| What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome? |
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| Potentially fatal idiosyncratic reaction to an antipsychotic drug resulting in rigidity, high fever; unstable BP, diaphoresis, pallor and delirium. |
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| What is partial hospitalization? |
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| Program designed to help clients make a gradual transition from being inpatients to living independently and to prevent repeat admissions. |
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| What is the clubhouse model? |
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| A type of psychiatric rehabilitation, the focus of this community based program is on health, not illness. Provides a place to meet for support and fellowship. |
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| What is an interdisciplinary team? |
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| An approach useful in dealing with the multifaceted problems of clients with mental illness, where different members have expertise in specific areas collaborate to meet clients needs more effectively. |
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| What are residential settings? |
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| Settings in the community that vary in structure, level of supervision and service where persons with mental illness can live. |
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| What is Assertive Community Treatment? |
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| Community program with a problem solving approach that provides services directly to the client. These include specific life issues in the form of skills training, support and teaching. Staff members provide these services in the clients residence. |
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| What method did Freud use (talk therapy)? |
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| The cathartic method. Today we refer to catharsis as "getting things off our chests." |
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| What is "free association?" |
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| It is included in talk therapy and it requires full and honest disclosure of thoughts and feelings as they come to mind. |
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| What are the three levels of awareness? |
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| Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious |
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| What is conscious awareness? |
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| It contains all the material a person is aware of at any one time, including perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, and feelings. |
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| Whatis preconscious awareness? |
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| It contains material that can be tetrieved rather easily through conscious effort |
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| What is unconscious awareness? |
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| It includes all repressed memories, passions, and unacceptable urges lying deep below the surface. It is believed that the memories and emotions associated with trauma are often "placed" in the unconscious. The individual is usually unable to retrieve unconscious material without the assistance of a trained therapist; however, with this assistance, inconscious material can be brought into conscious awareness. |
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| What is Freuds personality structure? |
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| Freud delineated three major and distinct but interactive systems of the personality; the id, the ego, and the superego. |
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- The source of all drives, instincts, reflexes, needs, genetic inheritance, and capacity to respond, as well as all the wishes that motivate us.
- Cannot tolerate frustration and seeks to discharge tension and return to a more comfortable level of energy.
- Lacks the ability to problem solce; it is not logical and operates according to the pleasure priniciple.
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- Develops because the needs, wishes, and demands of the id cannot be satisfactorliy met through primary processes and reflex actions.
- Emerges in the fourt or fifth month of life and is the problem solver and reality tester.
- Differentiates subjective experiences, memory images, and objective reality and attempts to negoriate a solution with the outside worlds.
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When the individual is factoring in reality to implement a plan to decrease tension.
Ex: A hungry man feels tension arising from the id. His ego allows him not only to think about his hunger but to plan where he can eat and to seek that destination. |
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- Represents the moral component of personality.
- Consists of the conscience (should not's) and the ego ideal (should's).
- Represents the idal rather than the real; it seeks perfection, as opposed to seeking pleasure or engaging reason.
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| What happens when the id is too powerful? |
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| The person will lack ccontrol over impulses |
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| What happens if the superego is too powerful? |
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| The person may be self critical and suffer from feelings of inferiority |
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| What are the two things that defense mechanisms share? |
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- They all (except suppression) operate on an unconscious level, and we are not aware of their operation
- They deny, falsify, or distort reality to make it less threatening
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| Who is known as the pather of psychoanalysis? |
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| Avoiding judgments of the person, no matter what the behavior |
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General feelings or a frame of reference around which a person organizes knowledge about the world.
Ex: hopeful, optimistic, positive, negative |
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Ideas that one holds to be true
Ex: all old people are hard of hearing |
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| Ability of the nurse to perceive the meanings and feelings of another person and communicate that understanding to that person. (putting yourself in another's shoes) |
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| What is genuine interest? |
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| Truly paying attention to the client, caring about what he or she is saying; only possible when the nurse is comfortable with him/herself and aware of his/her strengths and limitations. |
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What is accepting?
(Communication technique) |
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Communication technique that indicates that the nurse has heard and followed the train of thought.
Ex: "Yes" or "I followed what you said" |
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What is exploring?
(Communication technique) |
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Technique used to help examine an issue more fully
Ex: "Tell me more about that." |
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Technique indicates that the nurse is listening and following what the client is saying without taking away the initiative for the interaction.
Ex: "And then?" |
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| What is making observations? |
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Technique used when clients are unable to verbalize or make themselves understood.
Ex: "you appear tense" |
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| Technique which repeats what the client has said in approximately or nearly the same words that the client used. This restatement lets the client know that he or she communicated the idea effectively. |
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Technique that implies that only the nurse knows what is best for the client.
Ex: "I think you should" or "Why don't you" |
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Applying the belief that the nurse can prove unrealistic ideas.
Ex: "If your dead, why is your heart beating?" |
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Attempting to dispel the client's anxiety by implying that there is not sufficient reason for concern, which completely devalues the client's feelings.
Ex: "Everything will be ok" or "I wouldn't worry about that" |
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Sating that what the client thinks or feels is "good" implies that the opposite is "bad."
Ex: "I'm glad that you were able to get dressed this morning." |
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| What is making stereotyped comments? |
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Social conversation contains many cliches and much meaningless chitchat. Such comments are of no value in the nurse-client relationship.
Ex: "Just have a positive attitude and you'll be better in no time." |
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| Component of a nurse-patient relationship that builds when the client is confident in the nurse and when the nurse's presence conveys integrity and reliability. |
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| When words and actions match |
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| Shows unconditional, non judgmental attitude that implies respect for the person. |
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| Revealing personal information such as biological information and personal ideas, thoughts, and feelings about oneself to clients. Helps the client feel more comfortable and gain insight. |
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| What is therapeutic use of self? |
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| Nurse uses themselves as a tool to establish the therapeutic relationship with clients and to help the clients grow, change, and heal |
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| What is active listening? |
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| Concentrating exclusively on what the client says, refraining from other internal mental activities. |
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| Nonverbal form of communication: gestures, postures, movements, and body position. |
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| Process that people use to exchange information. |
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| All nonverbal messages that the speaker uses to give meaning and contest to the message. |
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| What are concrete messages? |
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| Words that are as clear as possible when speaking to the client so that the client can understand the message; these are important for accurate information exchange. |
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| This term refers to the clients pervasive and enduring emotional state. |
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| This term refers to the outward expression of the clients emotional state |
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| This affect shows little or a slow to respond facial expression. |
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| What is inappropriate affect? |
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| This affect displays a facial expression that is incongruent with mood or situation |
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| This term refers to showing no facial expression |
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| This term refers to being untidy or unkempt; messy. |
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| This term refers to repeated purposeless behaviors that are often indicative of anxiety. |
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| What is psychomotor retardation? |
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| This term refers to overall slowed movements |
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| What is waxy flexibility? |
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| This is maintenance of posture or position over time even when it is awkward and uncomfortable. |
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| These are invented words that have meaning only for the client |
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| This refers to the clients recognition of person, place, and time. |
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| What is abstract thinking? |
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| This term refers to making associations or interpretations about a situation or comment. |
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| What is concrete thinking? |
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| This term is used when a client continually gives literal translations to proverbs. |
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| This assessment of sensorium and intellectual processes has two arts: recent and remote. |
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| A short, traditional saying that expresses some obvious truth or familiar experience; adage. |
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| This term refers to how the client thinks. |
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| This term refers to what the client says? |
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| What is circumstantial thinking? |
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| This term refers to a thinking process that a client eventually answers a question but only after giving excessive unnecessary detail. |
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| What is thought broadcasting? |
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| This thought process is a delusional belief that others can hear or know what the client is thinking. |
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| This term refers to a flow of unconnected words that convey no meaning to the listener. |
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| These are false sensory perceptions or perceptual experiences that do not really exist |
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| This term refers to the way one views oneself in terms of personal worth and dignity |
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| This refers to the ability to understand the true nature of ones situation and accept some personal responsibility for that situation. |
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| This thought process uses an excessive amount and rate of speech composed of fragmented or unrelated ideas. |
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| What is tangential thinking? |
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| This thought process involves wondering off the topic and never providing the information requested. |
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| This is a person's right to self determination and independence. |
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| This refers to fairness; that is, treating all people fairly and equally without regard for social or economic status, race, sex, marital status, religion, ethnicity, or cultural beliefs. |
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| This refers to the obligation to honor commitments and contracts. |
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| This involves any action that causes a person to fear being touched in a way that is offensive, insulting, or physically injurious without consent or authority. |
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| This involves harmful or unwarranted contact with a client; actual harm may or may not have occurred. |
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| What is least restrictive environment? |
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| This term is used to desribe treatment appropriate to meet the client's needs with only necessary or required restrictions. |
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| This is the direct application of physical force to a person, without his or her permission, to restrict his or her freedom of movements. |
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| What is a human restraint? |
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| This type of restraint is when staff members physically control the client and move him or her to a seclusion room. |
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| What is mechanical restraint? |
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| This type of restraint uses devices, usually ankle and wrist restraints, fastened to a bed frame to curtain the clients physical aggression. |
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| This is the involuntary confinement of a person in a specially constructed, locked room equipped with a security window or camera for direct visual monitoring. |
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| This is a type of negligence that refers specifically to professionals such as nurses and physicians. |
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| This is a term used to define that a legally recognized relationship existed. |
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| This is a term used to state that the nurse (or physician) failed to conform to standards of care, thereby breaching or failing the existing duty |
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| What is injury or damage? |
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| This term is used when a client has suffered some type of loss, damage, or injury. |
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| This term states that the breach of duty was the direct cause of the loss, damage, or injury. |
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| This theory bases decisions on "the greatest good for the greatest number." |
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| This theory says decisions should be based on whether or not an action is morally right with no regard for the result or consequence. |
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| This refers to one's duty to benefit or to promote good for others. |
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| This is the requirement to do no harm to others either intentionally or unintentionally. |
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| This is the duty to be hones or truthful. |
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| This is the exception to the client's right to confidentiality; when health care providers are legally obligated to warn another person who is the target of the threats or plan by the client, even if the threats were discussed during therapy sessions that are otherwise protected by confidentiality. |
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| What is false imprisonment? |
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| This is defined as the unjustifiable detention of a client |
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| This is a situation in which ethical principles conflict or when there is no one clear course of action in a given situation |
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| This is a wrongful act that results in injury, loss, or damage. |
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| What is mandatory outpatient treatment (MOT)? |
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| This is the requirement that clients continue to participate in treatment on an involuntary basis after their release from the hospital into the community. |
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| What is socioeconomic status? |
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| This refers to one's income, education, and occupation. |
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| This term refers to feeling needed and accepted. |
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| This is the concept of people identifying with one another based on shared heritage. |
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| This is a division of mankind possessing traits that are transmitted by descent and sufficient to identify it as a distinct human type. |
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| What is biopsychosocial being? |
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| This being possesses unique characteristics and responds to others and the world in various and diverse ways. |
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| What is trust vs. mistrust? |
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| This stage of development views the world as safe and reliable. Views relationships as nurturing, stable, and dependable. |
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| What is autonomy vs. shame and doubt? |
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| This psychosocial development stage includes achieving a sense of control and free will. |
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| What is industry vs. inferiority? |
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| This developmental stage builds confidence in own abilities and taking pleasure in accomplishments. |
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| What is generativity vs. stagnation. |
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| This developmental stage establishes the next generation. |
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| What is ego integrity vs. despair. |
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| This developmental stage requires accepting responsibility for ones self and life. |
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| This is a belief that personal abilities and efforts affect the events in our lives. |
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| This is the ability to resist illness when under stress. |
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| This is defined as having healthy responses to stressful circumstances or risky situation. |
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| This involves using problem solving abilities and believing that one can cope with adverse or novel situations. |
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| This involves the essence of a persons being and his or her beliefs about the meaning of life and the purpose for living |
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| What is a sense of belonging? |
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| This is the feeling of connectedness with or involvement in a social system or environment of which a person feels an integral part. |
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| These are groups of people whom one knows and with whom one feels connected |
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| What is culturally competent nursing care? |
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| This type of nursing care means being sensitive to issues related to culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, social class, economic situation, and other factors. |
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| This belief attributes the cause of illness to the active, purposeful intervention of an outside agent, spirit, or supernatural force or deity. |
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| What is naturalistic view? |
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| This view is rooted in a belief that natural conditions or forces, such as cold, heat, wind, or dampness are responsible for the illness. |
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| What is social organization? |
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| This term refers to family structure and organization, religious values and beliefs, ethnicity, and culture, all of which affect a person's role and, therefore his or her health and illness. |
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| What is time orientation? |
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| Whether or not one views time as a precise or approximate; differs among cultures. |
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| What is environmental control? |
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| This refers to a clients ability to control the surroundings or direct factors in the environment. |
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| This term describes all the socially learned behaviors, values, beliefs, customs, and ways of thinking of a population that guide its members views of themselves and the world. |
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| What is cultural diversity? |
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Definition
| This refers to the cast array of differences that exist among populations. |
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Definition
| A state of emotional, psychological, and social wellness evidenced by satisfying interpersonal relationships, effective behavior and coping, positive self concept, and emotional stability. |
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| Significant, behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern occurring in a person and associated with a painful symptom, impairment of functioning, risk of death, pain, disability, or important loss of freedom. |
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| What is deinstitutionalization? |
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Definition
| Deliberate shift from institutional care in state hospitals to community facilities. |
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| What are psychotropic drugs |
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Definition
| Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), Lithium, MAOI's, antidepressants, tricyclic antidepressants, and benzodiazepines are used to treat mental illness. |
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| Process of a nurse gaining recognition of his or her own feelings, beliefs, and attitudes. |
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| Reports current medical conditions that are potentially relevant to understanding or managing the person's mental disorder as well as medical conditions that help to understand the person. |
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| Identifies all major psychiatric disorders except mental retardation and personality disorders. |
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| Rates the person's overall psychological functioning on a scale of 0-100. |
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| Describes prominent maladaptive personality features and defense mechanisms. |
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| What are the three purposes of the DSM-IV-TR? |
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Definition
Provide a standardized language for all mental health professionals.
Present defining characteristics or symptoms that separate specific diagnoses.
Assist in identifying the underlying causes of disorders. |
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| What is the revolving door effect? |
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Definition
| People with severe and persistent mental illness have shorter hospital stays, but are admitted to hospitals more frequently. |
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| What are standards of care? |
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| Developed by professional organizations to describe the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable. |
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| What is the psychiatric mental health nursing phenomena of concern? |
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Definition
| Twelve areas of concern that mental health nurses focus on when caring for clients. |
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| Management of care on a case by case basis which represented an effort to provide necessary services while containing cost. |
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| What is healthy people 2010? |
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Definition
| Objectives for mental health that were developed to improve identification, diagnosis and treatment of people in addition to providing more services for juveniles and adults who are incarcerated and have mental health problems. |
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| Concept designed to purposely control the balance between the quality of care provided and the cost of that care. |
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| The nurse allows the person to do their own care without medical or other professional consultation. |
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| What is cultural diversity? |
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Definition
| Differences among groups of people occurring due to ancestry and location of original residence. |
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Term
| What is the health illness continuum? |
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Definition
| The imaginary line of which we are all on, none of us in the same place, in relation to our wellness or lack of wellness. |
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| State of dynamic equilibrium of the internal environment of the body that is being consistently regulated in response to internal and external changes. |
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| What disease is associated with a decrease in Dopamine? |
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Definition
Parkinson's disease
Depression |
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| What disease is associated with a increase in Dopamine? |
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Definition
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| What disease is associated with a decrease in Norepinephrine? |
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Definition
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| What disease is associated with an increase in norepinephrine? |
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Definition
Mania
Anxiety states
Schizophrenia |
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| What disease is associated with a decrease in Serotonin? |
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Definition
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| What disease is associated with an increase in Serotonin? |
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Definition
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| What disease is associated with a decrease in histamine? |
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Definition
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| What disease is associated with a decrease in Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)? |
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Definition
Anxiety disorders
Schizophrenia
Mania
Huntington's disease |
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| What disease is associated with an increase in Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)? |
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Definition
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| What disease is associated with a decrease in glutamate? |
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Definition
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| What disease is associated with an increase in Glutamate? |
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Definition
Prolonged increased state can be neurotoxic (NMDA)
Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (NMDA)
Improvement of cognitive performance in behavioral tasks (AMPA) |
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| What disease is associated with a decrease in Acetylcholine? |
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Definition
Alzheimer's disease
Huntington's disease
Parkinson's disease |
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| What disease is associated with an increase in Acetylcholine? |
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Definition
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| What role does substance P play in mental health? |
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Definition
Involved in regulation of mood and anxiety
Role in pain management |
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Term
| What disease is associated with a decrease in Somatostatin? |
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Definition
Alzheimer's disease
Decreased levels of SRIF in spinal fluid of some depressed patients |
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| What disease is associated with an increase in Somatostatin? |
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Definition
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| What role does Neurotensin play in mental health? |
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Definition
| Decreased levels in spinal fluid of schizophrenic patients |
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Definition
| a cluster of attitudes and behaviors that allow people to maintain health and well-being in situations of stress. These include attitudes of commitment, control and challenge; coping habits; and the creation of social support networks. |
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| The ability to adapt and cope which helps people to face tragedies, loss, trauma, and severe stress |
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| The devotion or receptiveness to religios or moral values. Spirituality includes a search for meaning and purpose; a relationship with a higher being; and adherence to transcendent values such as hope, love, forgiveness. It is frequently experienced through a formal faith tradition. |
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Definition
Trust vs. Mistrust
0-1 1/2 years |
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Term
Early Childhood
Erikson's stage |
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Definition
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
1 1/2-3 years |
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Term
Late Childhood
Erikson's stage |
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Definition
Initiative vs. Guilt
3-6 years |
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School age
Erikson's stage |
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Definition
Industry vs. Inferiority
6-12 years |
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Adolescence
Erikson's stage |
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Definition
Identity vs. Role Confusion
12-20 years |
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Early Adulthood
Erikson's stage |
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Definition
Intimacy vs. Isolation
20-35 years |
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Middle Adulthood
Erikson's stage |
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Definition
Generativity vs. Self-absorption
35-65 years |
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Later years
Erikson's stage |
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Definition
Integrity vs. Despair
65 years-Death |
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Term
| What is first (bottom) in Maslow's hierarchy of needs? |
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Definition
| Physiological needs- food, water, oxygen, elimination, rest, and sex |
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Term
| What is second in Maslow's hierarchy of needs? |
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Definition
| Safety needs- security, protection, stability, structure, order, and limits |
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| What is third in Maslow's hierarchy of needs? |
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Definition
| Love and belonging needs- affiliation, affectionate relationships, and love |
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Term
| What is fourth in Maslow's hierarchy of needs? |
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Definition
| Esteem- Self-esteem related to competency, achievement, and esteem from others |
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Term
| What is fifth in Maslow's hierarchy of needs? |
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Definition
| Self-actualization- becoming everything one is capable of |
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| What is sixth (top) in Maslow's hierarchy of needs? |
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