Mental Health Terms
Commonly referred to as the inherited factors that contribute to a person's risk of developing disease
What is Family History?
A mental health disorder characterized by persistently low mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life
What is Major Depression?
Breathing with long breaths, especially as exercise or a method of relaxation
What is Deep Breathing?
Most common time of medication administration on unit
What is 0900 and 2100?
Occurs on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday; patients can only sign up for one day per week; opportunity to access cellphone to call family via video messenger
What is Facetime?
The return of mental health symptoms; can occur in many disorders including addiction, eating disorders, depression.
What is Relapse?
Symptoms include constant worry, restlessness, and trouble with concentration.
What is Anxiety?
Any bodily activity that enhances or maintains fitness and overall health and wellness
What is Physical Exercise?
The physical and mental symptoms that occur after stopping or reducing intake of a drug
What is Withdrawal?
Occurs on Thursday; sign up sheet is next to the nurse's station; opportunity for hair trim
What is Haircut?
a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection
What is Risk Factor?
A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event
What is PTSD
A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique
What is Mindfulness?
This person can prescribe new medications, discontinue medications, or increase/decrease the dose of current medications
What is the Doctor/Nurse Practitioner?
Occurs on the 1st and 15th of each month; opportunity to access phone; occurs at 2000
What is Bill Pay?
a stimulus such as a smell, sound, or sight that reinvites feelings of trauma
What is a Trigger?
A biopsychosocial disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences
What is addiction?
Things you can do to bring yourself into contact with the present moment – the here and now; examples include meditation or the 5 Sense's Exercise
What is Grounding Techniques?
An effect, whether therapeutic or adverse, that is secondary to the one intended
What is Side Effect?
Occurs on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month; opportunity to ask questions about any procedures or policies on unit in a group format
The ability to recover from life’s difficulties; individual for each person
What is Resilience?
Ratio of adults who suffer from a diagnosable mental health disorder
What is 1 in 4?
Will just reduce symptoms while maintaining or strengthening the stressor; only effective as a short-term rather than long-term coping process
What is a Maladaptive Coping Technique?
The most common type of drug used to treat depression
What is SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor)?
Elected official on unit; responsibilities include orienting new patients to unit and conducting goals group and wrap up group
What is Mayor?