An assessment order under the Mental Health Act, to have someone (involuntarily) assessed at a psychiatric facility.
What is a Form 1?
100
A mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by poor emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking.
What is Schizophrenia?
100
Marked by a severe lack of emphathy.
What is Antisocial personality disorder?
100
A state of low mood and lack of desire to do anything or go anywhere.
What is Depression?
100
Where someone has current addictions problems and a mental health concern at the same time.
What is a concurrent disorder?
200
The intentional, direct injuring of one's body most often done without suicidal intentions.
What is self-harm?
200
A perception in the absence of a stimulus. Ex: hearing something that isn't there)
What is a hallucination?
200
P.D. where people are self important and preoccupied with fantasies of success, entitlement & lack of empathy.
What is Narcisistic Personality Disorder
200
A depressed mood that is not as severe as a major depressive episode but extends over a period of at least two years.
What is Dysthymia
200
A multi-faceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed.
What is grief?
300
Participating in activities and routines that increase a persons mental well-being. (exercise, eating well etc...)
What is self-care?
300
The experience of feeling an emotion. Often presents as facial, vocal and gestural behaviour. (hint: can be flat)
What is affect?
300
Name of the categories for the 3 groups of Personality Disorders
What is Clusters A, B & C.
300
A state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
What is Mania?
300
Marked by trouble shifting focus AND defects in memory, orientation, perception and/or language.
What is Delirium?
400
A social disapproval or judgement of someone's personal characteristics or beliefs. May be towards an individual or a group.
What is Stigma?
400
A false belief that cannot be changed despite strong evidence to the contrary.
What is Delusion?
400
A lasting pattern of behavior and inner experience that markedly deviates from norms. (Affect, Cognitions, Impulse Control and Interpersonal Functioning)
What is a personality disorder?
400
Physical effects of _______ may include heart palpitations, muscle weakness and tension, fatigue, nausea, chest pain, shortness of breath, stomach aches, or headaches.
What is anxiety?
400
Publication by the American Psychiatric Association that provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
500
Treatment that is conducted outside a residential or hospital setting. Allows service users to access treatment and maintain daily norms (job, home, kids etc..)
What is community treatment?
500
Symptoms that most individuals do not normally experience but are present in the disorder. (hint: delusions and hallucinations are examples)
What is a positive symptom?
500
Where people are often impulsive, make recurrent suicidal threats, emotionally unstable, fear abandonment and often lack the ability to maintain relationships.
What is Borderline P.D.
500
A psychiatric diagnosis defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood (mania) with or without one or more depressive episodes.
What is Bipolar?
500
A psychological pattern, potentially reflected in behavior, that is generally associated with distress or disability, and which is not considered part of normal development of a person's culture.