Miscellaneous
What Came First? Mental Illness or Substance Use?
What is Both?
Correct! Early substance use can lead to mental illness and untreated mental illness can lead to substance use.
What are the top 3 predictive factors contributing to substance use?
What are mental illness, trauma, and low socioeconomic status.
What is the largest barrier to patient health care?
What is Stigma? or Stigmatization?
What diagnostic tool/handbook is often used by clinicians to refer to when screening for mental disorders?
What is DSM-5?
Safe supplies, needle exchange, safe consumptions sites, and street drug testing are included in what patient care stratagy/phylosophy?
What is Harm Reduction?
It is predicted that how many British Columbians will be affected by mental illness and/or substance use this year.
What is 1 in 5?
What risk factor is associated with a 40-60% increase in likelihood of substance use?
What is Genetics? or Genetic predisposition?
Your multidimensional mental health and addictions assessment should include which 3 Key assessments?
What is presence in use of substances, mental health assessment, and physical assessment.
What is the treatment method that focuses on efforts to change thinking and behavior patterns that lead to the undesired behavior being treated?
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? or CBT?
What Policy is focused on early intervention within the mental health and wellness continuum?
What is the FNHA Policy on Mental Health and Wellness?
FNHA (First Nations Health Authority)
What is the highest risk method of drug use?
What is injection? or intravenous drug use?
What two types of traumas were discussed in relation to the development of mental illness and/or substance use.
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
In what clinical setting would you find yourself most likely to be providing harm reduction supplies, completing mental health assessments, and administering needed medications.
What is Street Nursing?
Medication used as a first line of defense against depression?
What is SSRIs? or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors?
What key factor is identified by the discussed policies as the most important in changing the trajectory of outcomes in those with mental illness and/or addictions?
What is early intervention and detection?