Consult-Liaison Psychiatry
This was the previous name of the organization, known for its focus on mind-body medicine, which rebranded itself to Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry in 2018 to emphasize its role in bridging the gap as a liaison between psychiatry and medicine.
What is the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine?
The recommended approach regarding drug dosage in geriatric psychopharmacology
What is "to start low and go slow"?
The most common diagnoses (4) seen in psychiatric emergency rooms
What are depressive disorders, manic episodes, schizophrenia, and alcohol dependence?
Legal principle requires that a defendant must have the mental capacity to understand the proceedings against them and assist in their own defense
What is competency to stand trial?
Intervention that aims to reduce juvenile delinquent recidivism and improve family functioning for youth in psychiatric crisis or those who have experienced maltreatment
What is Multisystemic Therapy (MST)?
This psychoanalyst explored the intricate relationship between the mind and body, proposing that unconscious psychological conflicts could manifest as physical symptoms, thus laying the groundwork for the field of psychosomatic medicine.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
According to the National Institute of Mental Health’s Epidemiologic Catchment Area program, these are the most common mental disorders found in older adults.
What are depressive disorders, cognitive disorders, phobias, and alcohol use disorders?
Individual responsible for performing the initial assessment of patients upon arrival at the emergency department
What is a triage nurse?
According to criminal law, these two components must be present for an act to be considered a crime
What are voluntary conduct (actus reus) and evil intent (mens rea)?
This terms refers to the refers to the historical movement advocating for public funding of mental health services and humane treatment for those with severe mental disabilities and economically disadvantaged persons with mental illness
What is public psychiatry?
This is a common cause of hallucinations in the general hospital setting, which usually begin 3 to 4 days after hospitalization.
What is delirium tremens?
In a study conducted in a nursing home, this percentage of patients receiving psychotherapy showed improvements in various symptoms, including urinary incontinence, gait, memory, mental alertness, and hearing.
What is 43 percent?
The emergency psychiatrist must assess for these (2) during an urgent evaluation of a child or adolescent with behavioral disturbances
What are familial discord and psychiatric disorder in family members?
Landmark case in which the California Supreme Court rule that mental health professionals have a duty to protect identifiable third parties from imminent threats made by their patients
What is Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California?
In Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California (1976), the California Supreme Court held that mental health providers have an obligation to protect persons who could be harmed by a patient. The court's decision mandates that mental health professionals use "reasonable care" in informing authorities or warning potential victims, initially referred to as the "duty to warn," or by using whatever means deemed necessary, should they determine that a patient poses a threat to a third party
Therapeutic approach that guides traumatized children and their parents in recognizing and managing PTSD symptoms while desensitizing trauma memories
What is Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)?
These historical term refers to conditions that were often misdiagnosed due to a lack of understanding of the psychological factors influencing physical health before the 19th century.
What are hysteria and hypochondriasis?
This estimated percentage of persons above 65 years of age experience elder abuse, which the American Medical Association defines as “an act or omission which results in harm or threatened harm to the health or welfare of an elderly person.”
What is 10 percent?
Percentage of patients in psychiatric emergency rooms are reported to be suicidal
What is 20 percent?
Legal doctrine allows the state to intervene and provide care for individuals who cannot care for themselves, particularly minors
What is parens patriae?
Health care models are suggested to help identify and treat individuals with undetected psychiatric symptoms in conjunction with primary health care professionals
What are collaborative care models in public health?
This Hungarian psychoanalyst, in his 1926 work, expanded the Freudian concept of conversion hysteria to encompass physical symptoms related to the autonomic nervous system, pioneering the understanding of the mind-body connection in psychopathology.
Who is Sandor Ferenczi?
In the context of geriatric psychiatry, this is the incidence rate of suicide among older persons per 100,000 population, and this demographic has the highest rate.
What is 40 per 100,000 population, with the highest rate among older white men?
The three best predictors of violent behavior
What are 1. excessive alcohol intake, 2. history of violent acts with arrests or criminal activity, and 3. history of childhood abuse?
Legal standard established in 1843 by British courts that determines a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity if, at the time of the act, they were suffering from a mental disease that prevented them from understanding the nature and quality of their actions or knowing that their actions were wrong
What is the M'Naghten rule?
Also known as the “right-wrong” test, the M’Naghten Rule is a legal standard used to determine whether a defendant can be excused from criminal liability by reason of insanity.
To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or as not to know that what he was doing was wrong.
This report emphasized the need for a public health approach to care and rehabilitation for individuals experiencing mental illness, focusing on broader aspects than just medical models
What is the Surgeon General’s report on mental health?