The recurrent use of alcohol and/or drugs causes clinically and functionally significant impairment, such as health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, or home.
What is substance use disorders
The two most common mood disorders encountered by jailers
What are depression and bipolar disorder
Psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, rape or other violent personal assault
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
This personality disorder may have recurrent suicidal thoughts, feelings of abandonment, and is most recognized in women
What is borderline personality disorder
This personality disorder is diagnosed at or after age 18 and is most recognized in men
What is antisocial personality disorder
Sweating, racing heart, palpitations, muscle tension. tightness in the chest, difficulty breathing, tremor, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea are symptoms of this type of withdrawal
What are physical withdrawal symptoms
A serious and potentially deadly medical condition involving psychotic behavior, elevated temperature, and an extreme fight-or-flight response by the nervous system.
What is excited delirium
Results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
What is trauma
IDD is an acronym for what mental health diagnosis
What is Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Tendency to interpret the actions of others deliberately threating or demeaning is an example of this type of personality disorder
What is paranoid personality disorder
A deeply ingrained, inflexible pattern of relating, perceiving, and thinking serious enough to cause distress or impaired functioning
What is a personality disorder
A psychological disorder characterized by the elevation or lowering of a person's mood, such as depression or bipolar disorder: Also called affective disorder.
What is a mood disorder
Anxiety, restlessness, irritability, insomnia, headaches, poor concentration, depression, and social isolation are symptoms of this type of withdrawal
What is emotional withdrawal
What is what not to during a suicide intervention/prevention
Loss of spouse, rejection by peers, loss of home or land, or loss of job
What is recent loss of stabilizing resources
An individual believes that he or she presents an immediate danger to self or others or that his or her mental or physical health is at risk of serious deterioration.
What is a crisis
This mental illness is associated with a wide range of physical illnesses, medication side effects, and other psychiatric disorders.
What are anxiety disorders
First 24 hours of confinement, intoxication, holidays, darkness, and at arrest
What are key times to observe signs and symptoms
These are dangerous symptoms of alcohol and tranquilizer withdrawal
Grand mal seizures, heart attacks, strokes, hallucinations, and delirium termers
When responding to an unresponsive inmate staff shall enter the cell
A serious disturbance in mental abilities that results in confused thinking and reduced awareness of your environment. The start of delirium is usually rapid — within hours or a few days
What is delirium
The appropriate responses to excited delirium
What is notify medical staff, remove physical restraints when feasible, and monitor the subject for asphyxiation when using restrains.
Inappropriate attire, sluggish body movements, responding to hallucinations, causing self-injury, strange decoration, attachment to childish objects are this type of characteristic of persons in psychosis
What is a behavioral characteristic
4 sections of the Screening Form for Suicide and Medication and Mental Impartments
Young inmates, prior suicide by close loved ones, isolation, and harsh attitudes from jailers
What is potential personal factors for risk of suicide