MOOD & EATING DISORDERS
This is the priority assessment in depression.
What is suicide risk?
This is the main benefit of group therapy.
What is shared experience?
This personality disorder includes fear of abandonment.
What is borderline personality disorder?
These are false sensory perceptions.
What are hallucinations?
This neurotransmitter is most associated with the brain’s reward pathway and addiction.
What is dopamine?
This phase of bipolar disorder includes elevated mood and energy.
What is mania?
Family therapy focuses on this rather than individuals alone.
What are system interactions?
This disorder involves disregard for others’ rights.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
These are fixed false beliefs.
What are delusions?
Low levels of this neurotransmitter are commonly linked to depression
What is serotonin?
This eating disorder involves distorted body image and restriction.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This is the role of the group leader.
What is facilitating interaction?
This is the priority nursing intervention.
What is setting limits?
This is a negative symptom of schizophrenia.
What is flat affect?
This inhibitory neurotransmitter helps reduce anxiety and is enhanced by benzodiazepines.
What is GABA?
This disorder includes bingeing followed by purging.
What is bulimia nervosa?
Healthy families have these types of boundaries.
What are clear and flexible boundaries?
This defense mechanism involves seeing people as all good or all bad.
What is splitting?
This is the primary treatment for schizophrenia.
What are antipsychotic medications?
High levels of this neurotransmitter are associated with anxiety, while low levels are linked to depression.
What is norepinephrine?
These are signs of lithium toxicity.
What are tremors and confusion?
This improves with effective communication in families.
What is functioning?
This personality disorder includes grandiosity.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
This communication style is most appropriate.
What is reality-based communication?
This neurotransmitter plays a major role in memory and is decreased in Alzheimer’s disease.
What is acetylcholine?