General Mental Health
‘a safe, secure structured environment which facilitates therapeutic interaction between clients and professional team members’
What is Therapeutic Millieu?
Illness that can affect your ability to think clearly, manage your emotions, and interact with others. In which affects each person differently
What Is Schizophrenia?
Characterized by inability to remember important information, usually traumatic or stressful nature
What is dissociative amnesia?
Way to help individuals to identify and reduce symptoms of sensory disturbances, thoughts and behaviours
What is psychotherapy/ or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?
Fear of spiders
What is arachnophobia?
a “state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community
What is Mental Health?
Prodromal
Active/Acute
Remission
Relapse
What are the four phases of schizophrenia?
‘Intense feeling of fear and dread with each recurring mental rerun of the event’
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Akathisia, Dystonia, Tardive dyskinesia, Drug-induced parkinsonism, Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
What are the symptoms of extrapyramidal side effects?
any conscious or nonconscious adjustment or adaptation that decreases tension and anxiety in a stressful experience or situation
What is coping mechanism?
clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning
What is DSM-V?
Delusions, increased anxiety, agitation, hallucinations, jumbled or disorganized speech and behaviour
What are positive signs of schizophrenia?
Binge eating with repeated attacks, self-induced destructive methods to prevent weight gain (DSM-V); purging; nonpurging
What is bulimia Nervosa?
Psychotherapy combined with medications
What is the common/ best line of treatment for Mental Illness?
Excessive feeling of happiness; may escalate to mania: frenzied, unstable mood; may be out of touch with reality
What is euphoria?
Anticipatory, Conventional, Bereavement
What are the types of grief?
Genetics, Brain chemistry and structure, Problems during pregnancy
What are the possible causes of schizophrenia?
Inability to recall some/ all of one’s past/ identity, accompanied by sudden, unexpected travel away from home or place of work
What is dissociative amnesia with dissociative fugue?
Side effect that can occur in people taking antipsychotic medications.
What is extrapyramidal side effects?
Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow
What is Xanthophobia?
The action of describing or regarding someone or something as worthy of disgrace or disapproval
What is stigmatization?
Flat affect, lethargy, decreased socialization, avolition, Anhedonia
What are Negative signs of Schizophrenia?
Excessive fear of any social situations in which embarrassment is possible?
What is social anxiety disorder (social phobia)?
Typical- chlorpromazine, haloperidol (Haldol), Loxapine (Loxitane)
Atypical- olanzapine (Zydrexa), quietiapine (Seroquel), risperidone (Risperdal)
What are Antipsychotics medications/ Neuroleptic drugs?
Social withdrawal, Talking about suicide, Giving away possessions, Drug &/or alcohol abuse, personality changes, depression, previously failed attempts
What are the 7 warning signs of Suicide?