Most communication is this type.
What is Non-verbal communication?
Type of questions should you use to encourage information sharing.
What are open-ended questions?
The only two substances where death is a complication of withdrawal
What are Alcohol, benzodiazepines
"I don't need to be here."
"I already know all of this."
"This is worse than a 2 car non-injury with 10 entities."
What are many of the people in this class currently thinking?
MH disorder characterized by the following:
Hallucinations/ Delusions
Disorganized Thoughts
Positive / Negative symptoms
1% of general population has this
What is Schizophrenia?
General term to describe a wide range of mental health conditions that can affect mood, thinking, and behaviors.
What is mental illness?
The goal of crisis intervention
What is resolution of the individual’s immediate crisis and restoration to either base or higher level of functioning
Ultimate goal: De-Escalation
A set of persecutory beliefs in which those affected believe they are being followed, stalked, and harassed by a large number of people.
Typically associated with meth use
What is Gang Stalking
Always missing work due to being at "drill"
Who is Lanise Branch?
A lab-made (synthetic) stimulant with high addiction potential.
It’s short-term effects typically include feelings of euphoria and increased alertness and energy. It can also cause serious negative health effects, including paranoia, anxiety, rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, stroke, or even death. Long-term use may lead to insomnia, memory loss, development of a substance use disorder, and other health problems
What is methamphetamine?
This age group or gender was the highest rate of completed suicide in Colorado during 2023-2024
Acronym for active listening
What are MOREPIES and/or OARS
Which psychotic disorder is a combination of symptoms of schizophrenia and mood disorder, such as depression or bipolar disorder?
Schizoaffective disorder
Rapid onset of psychotic symptoms in the elderly (especially in females) can be directly caused by..
UTI - Urinary Tract Infection
UTI’s can also look like delirium. The individual may have slurred speech, may not be making sense, and may appear disoriented – especially in the elderly
Timmerman
Who is a Lieutenant?
75% of completed suicides in Colorado took place in this general location.
What is the house/apartment?
This CO legislation requires peace officers to utilize de-escalation techniques, crisis intervention tactics, and other alternatives to force when feasible.
What is SB 217?
This common mental health disorder is characterized by feelings of sadness, loss of interest, and fatigue.
What is Depression?
State of Colorado Providers are required to report concerns for elder abuse, neglect or financial exploitation to Law Enforcement
What is Mandatory Report?
Use a big word to name a specific phobia
What are any of the following?
1. Animal Phobias: Fear of spiders (arachnophobia), Fear of snakes (ophidiophobia), Fear of dogs (cynophobia), and Fear of insects (entomophobia).
2. Natural Environment Phobias: Fear of heights (acrophobia), Fear of thunderstorms (astraphobia), Fear of water (hydrophobia), and Fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia).
3. Blood-Injection-Injury Phobias: Fear of blood (hemophobia), Fear of needles (trypanophobia), and Fear of medical procedures (iatrophobia).
4. Situational Phobias: Fear of flying (aviophobia), Fear of driving (amaxophobia), Fear of crowds (agoraphobia), and Fear of public speaking (glossophobia).
5. Other Phobias: Fear of clowns (coulrophobia), Fear of vomiting (emetophobia), Fear of choking (pnigophobia), and Fear of spiders (arachnophobia
These are two of the top three IA complaints each year
What are BWC and Discourtesy?
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another
What is empathy?
Fixed set of beliefs that are not typically supported by reality.
What is a fixed delusion or delusional disorder?
Deliberate harm to the body (e.g., cutting, burning, hitting oneself) without the intention of causing death.
What is NSSI?
A psychological state characterized by an inability to experience pleasure or enjoyment from activities that were previously rewarding
What is anhedonia?
Diagnosis that cannot be the sole reason for Grave disability?
What are Dementia and/or IDD
In Colorado, children this age and older can consent to mental health treatment without the consent of a parent
What is 12?
A mental health disorder where individuals experience extreme mood swings that include manic episodes and depressive episodes.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This superhero, known for his ability to climb walls, made his first appearance in "Amazing Fantasy #15" in 1962
Who is Spider-Man?
A condition characterized by a dangerously low level of white blood cells called granulocytes. This condition can be brought on by Cloraril and is why Clozaril requires blood draws
Agranulocytosis