NCCHC standards
This certification provides formal recognition for CCHPs who have engaged in a process of ongoing, focused, and targeted MH professional development.
What is CCHP-MH or Mental Health professional certification?
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels driven to perform.
What are Compulsions?
This part of the autonomic nervous system can increase heart rate, dilate bronchial tubes, and dilate pupils when the body perceives a threat.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous system?
These two non-narcotic psychotropic medications, while commonly used in the community, are known to have significant abuse potential in the jail setting and should be avoided.
What are Seroquel and Wellbutrin?
The key feature of this disorder is about being in a situation from which escape is difficult.
What is Agoraphobia?
This addresses inmates’ complaints about mental health services and is an important component of CHS’s quality improvement program.
What is a Grievance Mechanism?
Feelings of unreality or being detached from one-self, often found in persons with Panic disorder.
What is Derealization or Depersonalization?
An autosomal dominant, progressive neurodegenerative disease of the neostriatum that cause abnormal movements which may be preceded by depression, apathy, or more uncommonly, psychosis.
What is Huntington’s Disease?
A patient who was stabilized on Lithium in December and remains stable for 6 months suddenly develops Lithium toxicity because of this most likely cause.
What is dehydration?
A set of meanings, behavioral norms, and values used by members of a particular society.
What is Culture?
Usually completed within 30 days of an in-custody suicide, this is a written reconstruction of an individual’s life emphasizing mental health factors that may have contributed to the individual’s death.
What is a Psychological Autopsy?
In persons with Bipolar disorder, this is estimated to be 20-30 fold greater than in the general population.
What is lifetime risk of suicide?
The most likely seizure type for a patient who experiences an impending sense of doom and smells burning rubber that is followed by a “dreamy state”.
What is Complex Partial Seizure?
These two medications have been proven in well-designed research studies to reduce the risk of suicide.
What are Lithium and clozapine?
The frequency of AIMS test for a 75 y/o female stable on Risperdone.
What is every 6 months?
Pregnant inmates who are dependent on opiates should have this available
What is Opiate Substitution Therapy (methadone and/or buprenorphine) and counseling?
Among hospitalized individuals with this diagnosis, as many as 38-41% of individuals will die within 1 year after diagnosis.
What is Delirium?
Damage to these two Cranial Nerves can lead to hyperacusis.
What are Cranial Nerves V and VII?
These drugs have shown efficacy in treating Tardive Dyskinesia.
What are VMAT-2 inhibitors
Delirium tremens is most likely to develop at what point in the intoxication-withdrawal cycle?
What is 2-3 days after the last drink?
Inmates in extreme isolation, with little or no contact with other individuals, are monitored at this rate.
What is daily by medical staff and at least once a week by qualified mental health professional?
Binge-Eating disorder with a severity modifier of “moderate” indicates how many binge eating episodes per week?
What is 4 to 7?
Dysfunction in this part of the brain, as can happen in mercury poisoning, may present with alternating shyness/fearfulness and fits of unprovoked rage.
What is the Amygdala?
Lamictal should be dosed low and increased slowly to avoid emergence of this rare syndrome.
What is Stevens-Johnson syndrome/rash?
The rate of comorbid substance abuse (non-nicotine) in patients with schizophrenia.
What is 50%?