Mental Health Team
The substance abuse counselor.
Who is Eryka?
A group of conditions characterized by excessive fear and worry and physical symptoms such as restlessness, rapid heartbeat, and difficulty concentrating.
What is Anxiety Disorders?
A time of intense difficulty, distress, or danger, where an individual may be at a heightened risk for suicide.
What is a crisis?
Emotional exhaustion from dealing with other peoples trauma.
What is compassion fatigue?
The leading cause of death in jails.
What is suicide?
This provider (name and title) connects patients to resources.
Who is Talley, the discharge planner?
Controls the flight or fight response in the brain.
What is the amygdala?
Early identification of high risk individuals.
What is screening?
Set clear boundaries to prevent burnout.
What is work life balance?
These inmates account for 90% of jail suicides.
What are male inmates?
Support during mental health emergencies.
What is crisis intervention?
Most common in inmates due to isolation and stress.
What is Depression?
A time of intense difficulty, distress, or danger, where an individual may be at a heightened risk for suicide.
What is a warning sign of a suicide?
Feeling detached from the job
What is depersonalization?
2004–2005 survey found there were more than ? times more seriously mentally ill persons in jails and prisons than in hospitals.
What is three?
Starting, adjusting, and monitoring psychotropic medications.
Low levels of this brain chemical lead to Depression and ADHD.
What is serotonin?
Three key steps of suicide prevention.
What is screening, frequent monitoring, reducing isolation, immediate mental health care and staff trainging?
Three symptoms of emotional exhaustion.
Nearly this percent of suicides happen within the first week of detention.
What is 50%?
The mental health team.
Who is Pam, Juan, Trevor, Guy, Cheryl, Alma, Jennifer, Talley, Eryka, and Dr. Taylor
Common symptoms include irritability, delusions, and weight loss.
What is mania?
Protective factors.
Conditions or attributes in an individual or environment that help reduce the risk of suicide (e.g., strong social support, access to mental health care).
Psychologytoday.com, Psychologytoday.com, National Institute of Corrections website.
What are resources for compassion fatigue?
In this many states, a jail or prison holds more mentally ill individuals than the largest remaining state psychiatric hospital.
What is 44?