Diagnosis
The most prevalent psychiatric disorder and leading cause of disability in the united states.
What is Depression?
Citalopram, fluoxetine and sertraline belong to this drug class.
What are SSRI's?
Non stop physical activity and lack of sleep and food can lead to physical exhaustion and death if not treated.
What is mania?
A false belief not shared by others that cannot be corrected by reasoning?
What are delusions?
Involves a physical and social setting that focuses on effecting positive change.
What is therapeutic milieu?
Children with this disorder have impulsive behavior, seek immediate gratification and have labile emotions.
What is ADHD?
Risperidone, olanzapine and quetiapine belong to this drug class.
What are atypical antipsychotics?
A defense mechanism in which experiences are blocked off from consciousness, so that affect, behavior, identity, memories, and/or thoughts are not integrated
What is dissociation?
This term is used when someone loses interest in previously enjoyed activities.
What is anhedonia?
When a patient is acting out on a unit with verbal and/or physical aggressiveness, this is a priority.
What is safety?
Although patients usually have a normal appearance, their preoccupation with an imagined defective body part results in obsessional thinking and compulsive behavior, such as mirror checking and camouflaging.
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
Side effects of this drug class include weight loss, loss of appetite, sleep problems, irritability and tics.
What are stimulants?
Auditory hallucinations are this type of symptom in schizophrenia.
What is a positive symptom?
An incomprehensible dialect of words and phrases.
What is word salad?
Staff meetings and treatment plans are used to maintain control and minimize manipulation by a patient experiencing acute mania. The goal is to provide this for the patient.
What is consistency?
Characterized by unstable, intense relationships, rapid mood shifts, self-mutilation, fear of abandonment, splitting and anger.
What is borderline personality disorder?
This drug class gradually increase the amount of norepinephrine in your brain. Norepinephrine makes you feel awake and alert.
What are SNRI's?
Unconscious process by which the patient's negative ideas, beliefs, and impulses are externalized and fixed on others.
What is projection?
Uncontrollable impulse to perform an act repetitively in a ritualistic manner.
What is compulsion?
Technique used to relieve stress in body by envisioning images that are calming and health enhancing.
What is Guided Imagery?
This disorder is characterized by nightmares, hypervigilance, anger, irritability, and intrusive thoughts.
What is PTSD?
This is the drug of choice for acetaminophen overdose.
What is the oral for of mucomyst (acetylcysteine)?
Serious and irreversible side effects which involve involuntary tonic muscle spasms of the tongue, fingers, toes, neck, trunk, or pelvis.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
A rapid succession of thought without logical sequence.
What is flight of ideas?
This type of therapy focuses on changing unhealthy or negative thoughts and behaviors. It is one of the most effective means of treatment for anxiety and depression.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?