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What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This practice aims to minimize the effects of drug use rather than condemn those who engage.
What is harm reduction?
Absent or decreased ability to express emotion through your face, tone of voice or movement is known as this.
What is a blunt affect?
Benztropine, or Cogentin, is used to treat EPS and belongs to this class of medications.
What are Anticholinergics?
This is characterized by speech that is delayed in reaching the point and contains excessive or irrelevant details.
What is circumstantiality?
Bipolar I and Bipolar II are differentiated by this symptom.
What is hypomania?
This therapy is based on the theory which states that unlearning the maladaptive behaviour patterns and altering thinking patterns will relieve the symptoms.
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy? (CBT)
A general slowing of physical and emotional reactions.
What is psychomotor retardation?
This drug binds to the endorphin receptors in the body, and blocks the effects and feelings of alcohol.
What is Naltrexone?
A common symptom in mania, this phenomenon influences communication.
What is pressured speech?
Psychiatric disorder characterized by a combination of psychotic symptoms and either depression or mania.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
Respecting a persons values or beliefs and honoring their backgrounds is known as this.
What is culturally competent care?
Varied, rapid and abrupt shifts in affective expression
What is a labile affect?
This SNRI-classed medication is used to treat not only MDD but also a myriad of syndromes which produce chronic musculoskeletal pain.
What is Duloxetine? (Cymbalta)
Fixed, false beliefs that are not influenced by evidence to the contrary.
What are delusions?
Usually characterized by nightmares, flashbacks, depression, avoidance and anger.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? (PTSD)
In psychosis and mania, high levels of this neurotransmitter is responsible for the severity of symptoms.
What is dopamine?
Used to describe the way a patients ideas are expressed during an assessment.
What is thought process/form?
Suboxone, a medication used in opioid dependence, is a combination of these two drugs.
What are Buprenorphine and Naloxone?
False beliefs about things happening to one's body are known as these types of complaints.
What are somatic complaints?
A disorder characterized by limitations in caloric intake without concurrent body dysmorphia.
What is ARFID? (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)
This type of restraint is considered an intervention of last resort.
What is physical restraint?
This 7 item assessment tool is useful in quickly identifying the severity of a someones anxiety.
What is the GAD-7?
These rarely utilized medications have interactions with foods rich in tyramine, resulting in hypertensive crisis.
What is are Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MOI's)?
A delusion based on a sense of inflated self, abilities, and connection.
What is a grandiose delusion?