Diagnoses
Common symptoms include reliving the event through nightmares or flashbacks, avoiding reminders of the trauma, negative changes in feelings and thoughts, and being constantly on edge.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Needs to have labs checked minimally every 90 days, can affect the liver. May not be taken while pregnant. Can be prescribed for Epilepsy, Bipolar, or Migraine management. Must be tapered off this medication to avoid rebound seizures.
What is Depakote?
Simple: Restating exactly what the person said, reformulating it slightly without adding meaning to convey understanding.
Complex: Amplifying the person's statement or the value stated, double-sided, continuing the paragraph, using a metaphor, reflecting the person's emotion.
What is reflections?
People with Schizophrenia typically start showing signs and symptoms during _______?
What is late teens to early 30s?
The kind of inquiry that invites the patient to use more words in their response than words from you. These are in comparison to a short worded response inquiry that invites single word or short responses, such as yes/no, a specific number or name or thing, etc. and are used in collecting data or information.
What is an open ended question?
Common symptoms include excessive worry and rumination, feeling tense, restless or on edge, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, increased respirations or heart rate, sweating, muscle tension, sleep disturbances, irritability, avoidance of triggers.
What is generalized anxiety disorder? (Anxiety)
Used for treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. Does not have a chemical dependence. Takes 2-4 weeks to become fully effective. Generally not effective for panic disorder, social anxiety or OCD. Needs to be taken consistently at the same time daily. Low risk of sedation. Not a benzodiazepam.
What is Buspar (Buspirone)?
A comment favorably on a specific trait, attribute or strength of the person. The reference should be to a positive aspect of the person that endures across different situations.
What is affirmations?
Which activity has been proven to reduce anxiety, depression and help improve overall health?
What is exercise?
Evanescence made a hit song about this medication!
"Don't wanna lock me up inside"
"Don't wanna forget how it feels without"
What is Lithium?
Diagnosis has positive and negative symptoms.
Positive: Hallucinations, Delusions, Disorganized thinking and Speech, Disorganized or Catatonic behavior.
Negative: Flat affect, Apathy, Social Withdrawal, Cognitive Impairments
What is Schizophrenia?
Primarily prescribed as an antidepressant. FDA approved for MDD and seasonal affective disorder, off label use it is approved for smoking cessation, ADHD and weight loss. Often coined on the street as "poor man crack."
What is Wellbutrin (Bupropion)?
A way of thinking and working that is collaborative rather than perspective, honors the person's autonomy and self-direction, and is more about evoking than installing. Suspend an authority role and explore the person's capacity and strengths rather than weaknesses and incapacity. Keep a genuine interest in the persons experience and perspectives, respect their choices keep hope and not give unsolicited advice.
What is spirit?
Being present and in the moment is technique for which practice?
What is mindfulness?
In 1916 Dr. Austen Riggs began holding consultations with patients in a rented room on West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield, located on the trolley line.
What is the Brien Center?
Common symptoms can include
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Used for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Must have labs obtained depending on when medication treatment began; weekly, biweekly or monthly. Can affect the white blood cell count lower the patient's immunity making them more susceptible to infection.
What is Clozapine (Clozaril)?
Focusing all of one's purpose, attention, and energy on understanding what the person's message means to them. Focusing with undivided attention, "soft eyes," acceptance of who the person is and what they are saying as their truth. Be delighted this person is choosing to share themselves with you. Keep compassionate and congruent body language, be collaborative in conversation, and believe what you hear.
What is listening?
A mental exercise that trains your attention and awareness to achieve a calm and clear state of mind. It involves focusing on a single point, like your breath, a repeated word (mantra), or a visual object, to reduce stress and increase inner peace.
What is meditation?
The right person, right medication, right dose, right time, and right route.
What are the five "rights" of medication administration?
9 signs of the diagnosis are as follows:
1. Fear of Rejection
2. Low Self-Esteem
3. Extreme Emotional Instability
4. Explosive Anger
5. Unstable Relationships
6. Impulsive Decisions (and self-destructive behaviors)
7. Self-Harm
8. Dissociation
9. Chronic Feelings of Emptiness
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Typically prescribed for management of narcolepsy and ADHD. Patients should be monitored regularly by a healthcare provider for any adverse effects on heart rate, blood pressure, and growth in children. High blood pressure, tachycardia (rapid heart rate), chest pain, heart attack, and stroke may occur. Anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations, and worsening existing mental health conditions are also considerations. This medication has a high potential for abuse and misuse, which can lead to a substance use disorder and addiction. It is classified as a controlled substance due to these risks.
What is Adderall (amphetamine-dextroamphetamine)?
In a special form of empathetic reflection where you collect statements from a part or the whole of the conversation thus far. You choose what to include, and the emphasis should reflect the person's concerns about change, target behavior recognition, optimism about change and/or the person's ambivalence about change. This lets the person know you are listening, and gives the person a chance to amend or change your words. This can serve as a way to make the transition from one subject to another and are great endings of sessions.
What are summaries?
Self-Soothing by 5-4-3-2-1
5 things you can see in the room with you
4 things you can feel
3 things you can hear
2 things you can smell
1 thing you can tatse
What is grounding?
____________ the term for the phenomenon where individuals exert less effort when working in a group compared to working alone?
What is Social loafing?