Chronic Mental Illness
Nearly how many U.S. adults live with a mental illness?
What is one in five adults?
These disorders involve long-standing maladaptive patterns in behavior and relationships.
What are personality disorders?
This term describes the inability to recognize reality
What is psychosis?
These medications are also called neuroleptics and treat schizophrenia.
What are antipsychotics?
Having two or more disorders at the same time is called this.
What is comorbidity?
This public policy moved patients out of institutions into the community.
What is deinstitutionalization?
personality disorders are grouped into these three clusters.
What are eccentric (A), erratic (B), and fearful (C)?
Symptoms like hallucinations and delusions are called this type.
What are positive symptoms?
The primary short-term goal of inpatient psychiatric care.
What is stabilization?
Adolescents with schizophrenia often show this social change
What is social withdrawal?
Name one behavioral characteristic of chronic mental illness,
What is inability to function socially/occupationally OR potential violence/assaultive behavior?
This cluster includes borderline and narcissistic disorders.
What is Cluster B (erratic)?
The four stages of schizophrenia progression include this first phase.
What is the prodromal phase?
Nurses must monitor this critical aspect of medication use.
What is medication compliance?
This disorder in older adults is a common chronic mental health problem.
What is Alzheimer’s disease or dementia?
Name one psychological characteristic of chronic mental illness.
What is low self-esteem, hopelessness, depression, or loneliness?
These theories suggest personality disorders come from learned behaviors.
What are behavioral theories?
This disorder lasts more than 1 day but less than 1 month.
What is brief psychotic disorder?
This serious medication reaction includes rigidity and fever.
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
This term describes co-occurring mental illness and substance use.
What is dual diagnosis?
This failure after deinstitutionalization contributed to poor outcomes.
What is lack of aftercare services?
The main goal of therapy for personality disorders is NOT cure, but this.
What is symptom management or improved functioning?
Symptoms must persist for at least this long before diagnosis.
What is 1 year?
Name one extrapyramidal side effect of antipsychotics.
What is akathisia, dystonia, dyskinesia, or Parkinsonism?
This group is known as the “young chronically mentally ill” and often does this.
What is refuse treatment or self-medicate?