Mental Health Basics
This term refers to overall emotional, psychological, cognitive and social well-being.
What is mental health?
This is the most common category of mental illness in the U.S
What are anxiety disorders?
Primary prevention aims to do this.
What is preventing mental illness before it occurs?
Class of drugs that act on the central nervous system to relieve pain, but they also produce a range of side effects and signs of intoxication or overdose.
What are opioids?
Drowning, falls, motor vehicle accidents
What are causes of unintentional injuries?
This term describes how a person thinks, feels and acts and includes both mental health and substance use conditions.
What is behavioral health?
These factors increase the likelihood of developing mental illness.
What are risk factors?
Secondary prevention focuses on this.
What is early detection and treatment?
This class increases alertness and energy.
What are stimulants?
A patient arrives in the emergency department with bruises and a fractured rib and reports that their partner hit and shoved them during an argument at home.
What is interpersonal violence?
This describes diagnosable conditions that affect thinking, mood, or behavior.
What is mental illness?
Examples include strong social support and coping skills.
What are protective factors?
Tertiary prevention aims to do this.
What is to reduce the impact of an already existing disease or injury.
This term refers to needing more of a substance to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
This includes acts of war and terrorism and mass shootings are examples.
What is collective violence?
This classification is a subset of Any Mental Disorders and includes disorders that significantly interfere with major life activities.
What is Serious Mental Illness (SMI)?
This term describes the ability to recover from adversity.
What is resilience?
Negative attitudes and discrimination toward mental illness is called this.
What is stigma?
This strategy aims to reduce negative consequences without requiring abstinence.
What is harm reduction?
This tool analyzes factors before, during, and after an injury.
What is the Haddon Matrix?
This classification includes diagnosable mental disorders that may or may not severely impair functioning.
What is Any Mental Illness (AMI)?
This public health approach studies distribution and determinants of mental disorders.
What is epidemiology related to mental health?
This tool measures health-related quality of life over time.
What is HRQoL-14?
This is one of the five components used to assess substance use disorders and indicates pattern of use by the client.
What is frequency?
Key nursing strategy when caring for victims of violence.
What is ensuring safety and providing trauma-informed care?