Chapter 1
Includes disorders that affect mood, behavior and thinking
What is Mental Illness
The area of the brain that includes the thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala.
What is the Limbic system
This personality component reflects basic or innate desire such as pleasure seeking behavior.
What is the "id"
___________ involves the management of a chronic or potentially reoccurring illness that requires specific interventions to maintain optimal wellness
What is recovery
These medications work by blocking receptors of the neurotransmitter dopamine
What are antipsychotic medications
Nonmedical factors that influence health
What are social determinants
These three studies are used to investigate the genetic basis of mental illness
What is twin studies, adoption studies and family studies
This ego defense mechanism includes overachievement in one area to compensate for deficiencies in another area
What is compensation
What is the clubhouse model
These neurological symptoms are side effects of antipsychotic drugs and include dystonia and akathisia
What are extrapyramidal symptoms (EPSs)
The deliberate shift from institutional in state hospitals to community facilities
What is deinstitutionalization
This is issued when a drug is found to have serious or life threatening side effects
What is a black box warning
The ego defense mechanism of moving back to a previous developmental stages
What is regression
This program provides services to stop the revolving door of repeated hospital admissions punctuated by unsuccessful attempts at community living
What is assertive community treatment (ACT)
Acute dystonia can be treated with these medications
What are anticholinergic drugs (benztropine mesylate or diphenhydramine)
The process in which nurses gain recognition of their own feelings
What is self-awareness
Refers to the maximal therapeutic effect that a drug can achieve
What is efficacy
This therapy focuses on faulty thinking, learned patterns of unhelpful behavior, resulting in distress for the individual
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
This is a better predictor of how long a person could remain in the community than the person's diagnosis
What is discharge planning
This is a syndrome of permanent involuntary movements caused by long term use of antipsychotic medications
What is tardive dyskinesia (TD)
The two areas of practice for nursing practice in Mental Health
What is Basic-level and Advance-Level functions (Box 1.2)
This neurotransmitter controls complex movements, motivation, cognition; regulates emotional response
What is dopamine
This occurs when the therapist displaces onto the client attitudes and feelings from their own past
What is Countertransference
This diagnosis refers to a mental illness and substance abuse
What is dual diagnosis
Life threatening side effect of MAOIs
What is hypertensive crisis