Child/Adolescent Psych
Operant conditioning is
What is a method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior?
4 types of groups
What are task groups, teaching groups, supportive/therapeutic groups, and self-help groups?
Primary concern of a patient with catatonia
What is nutritional status?
A relationship system consisting of three individuals formed to decrease anxiety
What are triangles?
Stage in the cycle of violence when the patient is most likely to look for help and would be most receptive to making plans for safety
What is the acute battering/crisis stage?
Type of activity most appropriate for a child with ADHD
What is physical activity (sports)?
What occurs in the initial/orientation phase of group development
What is establishing the rules/goals of the group?
Main concern for a patient taking clozapine
What is agranulocytosis (monitor for flu symptoms, fever, and aching joints)?
People who grow up in the same spot in families tend to have important common characteristics
What is sibling position?
The primary nursing intervention for a patient who was raped
What is providing physical/emotional support?
Medication used to treat ADHD in children
What is Methylphenidate?
What occurs in the middle/working phase of group development
What is working to complete the task?
Medication used for antipsychotic side effects of extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) such as restlessness and fidgetiness
What is benztropine?
The process of freeing yourself from your family's processes to define yourself, being able to have different opinions and values than your family members
What is the differentiation of self?
A single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes physical, emotional, financial, or sexual harm or distress to an older person
What is elder abuse?
Family teaching for a child taking medications for ADHD should include
What is monitoring weight?
What occurs in the final/termination phase of group development
What is members will reflect on their progress?
Medication used for newly diagnosed patient with schizophrenia
What is risperidone?
Occurs when family dynamics are transferred from parents to children across generations through conscious processes, like teaching and learning of information
What is the multigeneration transmission process?
Bruises of various ages, fractures in different stages of healing, and a report that does not match the injury
What are symptoms of elder, domestic, and child abuse?
4 main symptoms of Conduct Disorder (CD)
What are aggression to people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness or theft, and serious violations of rules?
According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) standards, the type of group that is not the purview of the registered nurse is
What is psychotherapy?
Symptom of catatonia in which a patient's limbs retain any position into which they are manipulated by another person
What is waxy flexibility?
Relates to relationship patterns in four primary areas: marital conflict, dysfunction in a spouse, impairment of one or more children, and emotional distance
What is Nuclear Family Emotional Process?
Because the patient is at risk of feeling anger toward the perpetrator, the nurse should encourage self-care strategies such as
What is self-reflection?