Medications & Side Effects
Side Effect: Sexual Dysfunction
Antidepressants
Ex: Prozac
Marked by persistent deficits in social communication and interaction, along with restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Chronic depressive mood lasting at least two years in adults (one year in children), without meeting full criteria for major depressive episodes.
Persistent Depressive Disorder
The client is not ready to change and is not thinking about change.
Precontemplation
Measures Severity of depressive symptoms, such as hopelessness, sadness, and loss of interest in activities.
Beck Depression Inventory
Antidepressants (Tricyclics)
Ex: Anafranil & Elavil
Triggered by exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence. Involves intrusive memories, avoidance, hyperarousal, and negative alterations in mood.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Repetitive and persistent pattern of violating social norms or the rights of others, often including aggression, theft, and rule violations.
Conduct Disorder
In this stage, people have sustained their behavior change for a while (defined as more than 6 months) and intend to maintain the behavior change going forward. People in this stage work to prevent relapse to earlier stages.
Maintenance
Personality characteristics, unconscious thoughts, and emotional functioning based on interpretation of inkblots.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Ativan is used for?
Anxiety
Characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that impairs functioning across multiple settings. Symptoms must appear before age 12.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Marked by excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior, often beginning in early adulthood and present across contexts.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
In this stage, people have acknowledged there is a habit or a behaviour that is not a healthy behavior, but they are not yet prepared to make a change. The thought of making a change may cause a person to begin to feel pain. This could be fear of the loss of the behavior, it could be fear of withdrawal. At this stage you may see individuals develop barriers to change, for example using terms like “I know, but…”. The person may also see the benefits of change but are ambivalent about making that change.
Contemplation
Method that is client-centered, directive method designed to explore and resolve ambivalence.
Use open-ended questions, reflective listening, and affirmations to elicit change talk (e.g., “What would be different in your life if you made this change?”).
Motivational Interviewing
Side Effect: Tremors
Lithium
Persistent grief response that extends beyond culturally expected norms, typically lasting more than 12 months in adults, impairing daily life.
Prolonged Grief Disorder
A pattern of inhibited, emotionally withdrawn behavior toward caregivers, typically due to grossly inadequate caregiving during early childhood.
Reactive Attachment Disorder
In this stage, the behavior has been acknowledged and the person has made the decision to make a change. It may be a small change, for example, a reduction in the amount of substance used, or the type, it could be a change in behaviour (safer injection).
Preparation/Determination
An approach to understand how strengths and challenges interact within the client’s ecological system, including personal, family, community, and societal influences.
Holistic
Vyvanse is used for?
ADD / ADHD
Grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy characterize this pervasive personality pattern, often impairing relationships.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affect, with marked impulsivity and fear of abandonment.
Borderline Personality Disorder
In this stage, people have recently changed their behavior (defined as within the last 6 months) and intend to keep moving forward with that behavior change. People may exhibit this by modifying their problem behavior or acquiring new healthy behaviors.
Action
Structured assessment of a client’s cognitive functions, appearance, behavior, mood, and thought processes.
Mental Status Exam (MSE)