Chap. 11 & 12
Increasing flexibility of family boundaries to permit children's independence and grandparents' fralities
What is the family with adolescents
A sudden event in one's life that disturbs homeostasis, during which usual coping mechanisms cannot resolve the problem
What is a crisis?
Personal beliefs about one's self
That is self-concept
Are you thinking of harming yourself or others, do you have a plan, do you have access to that plan
What are assessment questions for a suicidal patient?
A type of psychotherapy based on the concept of pathological mental processing
What is Cognitive Therapy?
To manipulate the environment so that all aspects of the client's hospital experience are considered therapeutic
What is Milieu Therapy
Promotes a feeling of personal power and self-confidence
What is assertiveness?
An emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irritation to intense fury and rage
What is anger?
Attention is given to the consequences of the behavioral response
What is operant conditioning?
Sometimes used for patients with severe depression that has not responded to other treatments
What is ECT?
Smaller elements that make up the larger family system; can be individuals or can consist of 2 or more persons united by gender, relationship, generation, interest or purpose
What are subsystems?
Normal life-cycle transitions that are anticipated but over which the individual may feel a lack of control
What is Crisis of Anticipated Life Transitions?
Emotional stability, a high sense of mastery, low risk taking and being healthy
What are factors needed in development of high self-esteem?
Suicidal thoughts and attempts should be considered manipulative or attention-seeking behavior and should not be taken seriously
What are myths about suicide?
Temporary amnesia and confusion
What are common side effects of ECT?
Psychiatrist, Psychiatric social worker, Psychiatric nurse, dietitian, Chaplain
What are the members of the Interdisciplinary Treatment Team?
Passive, does not express true feelings, self-deprecating, denies own rights
What is nonassertive bahavior?
Pacing, verbal threats, increasing agitation
What are signs of aggression?
A child cleans their room and gets an allowance for cleaning
What is positive reinforcement
Sweeping conclusions made on the basis of one incident - all of nothing thinking
What is Overgeneralization?
A statement is made and succeeded by a contradictory statement; "damned if I do and damned if I don't"
What is double-bind communication?
Situations in which general functioning has been severely impaired and the individual and the individual is rendered incompetent or unable to assume personal responsibility for his or her behavior
What are psychiatric emergencies?
Confusion, irritability, boisterousness, physical threats, verbal threats, attacks on objects
What is The Broset Violence Checklist
Discuss riding in an elevator with the therapist; look at a picture of an elevator, walk into the lobby of a building and see the elevators
What are examples of Systematic Desensitization?
Always thinking that the worst will occur without considering the possibility of more likely positive outcomes
What is Catastrophic Thinking?