Stress Reduction
Teaching to inhale through the nose, hold, then exhale through the mouth
What is deep breathing?
Treatment setting for a client at risk of harm to self or others
What is inpatient mental health facility?
Flashback or other disturbance in consciousness, memory, environmental perception
What is dissociation?
Most restrictive intervention for aggressive or self-injurious behavior
What is restraint?
Client loses interest in previously pleasant activities
What is anhedonia?
Teaching to squeeze the toes, hold, and release - working up to head
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
What is the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team?
Orient client to the present and guide them to use senses to focus
What is grounding technique?
Psychotherapy group that keeps same members for a specified amount of time
What is a closed group?
Rapid onset change in orientation, cognition, perception, emotions
What is delirium?
Using scents (such as essential oils) to promote calm, memory, energy, etc.
What is aromatherapy?
Client works during the day then attends therapy and stays at hospital at night
What is partial hospitalization program?
Disorder with two or more distinct identities that take control of client's behavior
What is dissociative identify disorder?
Community-based group with peer leader often for addictive disorders
What is a support group (or 12-step group)?
Client has amenorrhea, bradycardia, loss of muscle tone, dry skin
What is anorexia nervosa (or symptoms of AN)?
Technique to sit or lay down, quiet the mind, allow thoughts to drift off
What is meditation?
Nurse who can provide psychotherapy and prescribe medications
What is a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner?
Progressive exposure to threatening trigger/object in safe setting to reduce intensity of response
What is desensitization? (or flooding, which is rapid desensitization)
Voluntary retreat to a neutral place to gain self-control, often to prevent aggression or acting out
What is Time Out?
Misinterpreting a real stimuli (sound, sight) as something perilous
What is an illusion?
Leading client to imagine being in a safe, calm, healing place (such as the beach)
What is Guided Imagery?
Reintegration into community, empowerment, more independence, work w/ peer counselors
What is recovery? or What is psychiatric rehabilitation?
Client w/ OCD confronts stimuli usually avoided and focuses on delaying performance of ritual
Helps one learn to recognize and correct negative automatic thoughts
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Intentional production of false or exaggerated symptoms to gain external reward (such as $, meds, avoid work)
What is malingering?