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Concepts a nurse should use to understand a client who reports a recent increase in stressors.
What is adaptive vs maladaptive?
True or False: Anxiety can manifest alongside other medical and psychiatric conditions.
What is true?
True or false: Personality disorders often manifest from childhood emotional trauma.
This screening tool should be used by the nurse to determine if the client has recently used an illicit substance.
What is a toxicology test?
This type of grief might be experienced by clients and their families when a client has a terminal illness and is still alive.
What is anticipatory?
This circuit of the brain is associated with feelings of panic.
What is the amygdala-centered (ACC) circuit?
Dependent personality disorder is in this cluster.
What is cluster C?
A person with this demonstrates consistent failure to speak in specific social situations.
What is selective mutism?
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is used to diagnose this.
What is personality disorders?
A protective factor to potentially keep adults from developing addictions.
What is a positive self-image?
This circuit is associated with symptoms associated with worry, apprehension and obsession.
What is the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuit (CSTC)?
Paranoid personality disorder is in this cluster.
What is cluster A?
True or false: Personality disorders are often seen in children under the age of 10.
What is false?
This disorder is characterized by a desire to be alone and disinterest in intimate, social, or meaningful relationships.
What is schizoid personality disorder?
True or false: Opioids can cause delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, and problems thinking.
What is false?
Hallucinogens cause can cause delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, and problems thinking.
A client with this disorder experiences distinct and extreme periods of physiologic and psychologic hyperarousal.
What is panic disorder?
Borderline personality disorder is in this cluster.
What is cluster B?
Someone with this disorder experiences developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety upon separation from those to whom they are attached.
What is separation anxiety disorder?
A person with this disorder tends to lack empathy for others.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
A team of providers, nurses, social workers, and counselors is called this.
What is an interdisciplinary team?
This disorder is characterized by excessive anxiety and worry in response to a variety of circumstances, and an inability to control worry.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
Antisocial personality disorder is in this cluster.
What is cluster B?
This is characterized by fear and anxiety upon exposure to circumstances associated with travel or location.
What is agoraphobia?
A person with this disorder lacks confidence and often feels unable to care for themselves.
What is dependent personality disorder?
The areas of the brain identified in the addiction process.
What are the basal ganglia, extended amygdala, and prefrontal cortex?