Mental Health Team
Physicians who specialized in mental disorders
Psychiatrist
In what year did Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist, develop a system for diagnosing and classifying mental illness?
1883
True/False. Effective communication from the aide includes giving advice and talking about themselves.
False
This is known as a feeling of uneasiness, apprehension, worry, or dread that may be rational or irrational.
Anxiety
Those with schizophrenia most often need assistance with
ADLs
This team member helps patients with social, vocational, financial, housing, and placement problems.
Social Worker
Who was the first person to approached mental illness as a medical problem.
Hippocrates
The aide assists with the involuntary confinement of a patient for violent or destructive behavior. What is this called
Seclusion
A severe form of anxiety that leads a person to feel sheer terror or even that death is imminent.
Panic
Extreme state of extreme excitement resulting in thoughts of grandeur and delusions.
Mania
Team member certified to work under the directive of the nurse to maintain patient safety and security.
Mental Health Worker/Psych Tech
Prior to the 17th Century how were the mentally ill treated for insanity?
Later drowned, burned or hanged (death)
True or false. Seclusion/Restraints do not require a doctor's order before placing the patient in restraints
FALSE. ALWAYS REQUIRE A MD ORDER
Individuals with this condition are overly preoccupied with their health and sure there is something wrong with them.
hypochondriasis
a chronic mental disorder in which an individual cannot separate fantasy from reality
Schizophrenia
Team Member perform individual, family, and group therapy. They have master’s degrees in psychology. Many states require as many as 3,000 hours of work in the field as an intern to become licensed.
Counselor or Therapist
What are the three ways mental health is currently treated?
Drug Therapy
Individual Therapy
Group Therapy
During the withdrawal phase, the mental health worker's responsibilities include:
VS, reporting to nurse, observe for suicide
This condition causes dizziness and light-headedness, heart palpitations, tingling or numbness of the extremities (parasthesias), sensation that the legs are made of jelly, hyperventilation, chest pressure or chest pain (angina), choking sensations (lump in throat), hot or cold sensations, nausea and diarrhea, headaches, feeling of derealization, feeling of depersonalization
Anxiety Attack
This disease process occurs in anyone who has experienced sudden trauma outside the range of normal
PTSD
This is a professionals who practice individual, group and family therapy, administer and interpret psychiatric tests and conduct research. They have a doctor philosophy (PhD) in psychology and must complete an internship. They do not have medical degrees and cannot prescribe medications.
Clinical Psychologist
TRUE or FALSE. Witchcraft, black magic, and demonic possession were thought to be the cause of insanity during the European Middle ages
TRUE
When the aide helps the patient with thoughts perceived to threaten to one's values, self-esteem, beliefs, and/or emotional safety.
Conflict resolution
Individuals feel a loss of mind control and are filled with upsetting or overwhelming thoughts or impulses that increase the anxiety. There is no sense that these feelings will stop related to irrational fears causing intense dread.
Panic Attack
True or False. Hypotension and bradycardia are signs of Alcohol Withdrawal.
False. Hypertension and tachycardia.