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Motivate us to solve problems and meet goals. It is beneficial and normal stress.
What is Eustress?
Indirectly traumatized trying to help a person who has experienced primary traumatic stress.
What is Compassion Fatigue/Secondary Traumatic Stress?
List 8 of the events that can cause anyone to have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Physical Abuse, SA, Torture, War, Natural Disasters, Accidents, Terrorist events, and can occur to anyone who has encountered an unbearable event.
List 3 neurochemical mediators for anxiety. (Medications)
SEROTONIN, NOREPINEPHRINE, AND GABA
Causes emotional and physical problems.
What is Distress?
Occurs after experiencing a traumatic event and can resolve within 1 month.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
List 4 categories of symptoms on PTSD
1) Intrusive experiencing of trauma
2) Avoidance
3) Alteration in arousal
4) Persistent negative alterations in cognitive and mood.
What is the most extreme level of anxiety and the symptoms?
Panic Level: shakiness, dilated pupils, restlessness, irritability, tachycardia, and hyperventilation.
List 4 levels of Anxiety
Mild Anxiety, Moderate Anxiety, Severe Anxiety, and Panic level
Explain why Benzodiazepines is only for short term basis only?
Risk for addiction, cognitive decline, prone to more falls, and can lead to mortality (death).
2 symptoms that occur in OCD patients and explain in each one in your own words.
Obsessions: thoughts, impulses, or images that cannot be dismissed from the mind.
Compulsions: ritualistic behaviors that feel driven to perform an attempt to reduce anxiety.
Name all 3 Phobias and what each one does in your own words.
*Bonus if you can name a phobia to each one that is related to it*
Specific Phobia (specific objects), Social Phobia (Socializing with people), Agoraphobia (Places where help may not be available and escape is difficult)
Chronic symptoms of altered voluntary motor or sensory function. Ex. paralysis of limbs, speech issues after stressful events.
What is Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Disorder)?
Name 4 dissociative disorders and in your own words explain what they are.
Depersonalization: Recurrent periods of feeling detached.
Dissociative Amnesia: Inability to recall information about self on traumatic nature
Dissociative Amnesia with Fugue: Amnesia for one's identity
Dissociative Identity: Multiple personality disorder (Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde)
Excessive anxiety and worry about a number of events and activities.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Name 3 parts of CLUSTER A Personality Disorders
1) Schizotypal PD
2) Paranoid PD
3) Schizoid PD
Name 3 CLUSTER C Personality Disorder.
1) Avoidant PD
2) Obsessive-Compulsive PD
3) Dependent PD
What are the 2 dissociative symptoms in PTSD? Explain in your own words what each one is.
Depersonalization: recurrent experiences of feelings detached from and as if you are observing your body from the outside.
Derealization: recurrent experiences of unreality of surroundings.
List 2 types of Factitious Disorders and explain each one.
Imposed on Self (intentionally faking symptoms in order to assume the "sick role")
Imposed on Another (deliberate fabrication of symptoms or injury is imposed on another person)
What type of personality disorder does this portray?
Hostile, irritable, angry mood and affect
What do you do when these symptoms show?
Paranoid Personality Disorder; Give space when this is present.
What is a significant risk factor for developing any type of Personality disorder?
Childhood trauma.
Leading to expensive and repetitive medical examinations due to focus on physical complaints.
What is Somatic Symptoms Disorders?
ADPIE on PTSD
Brief explanation on what you would do when you have a pt presenting PTSD.
Assessment: check for any withdrawals or substance abuse. Check for any abusive relationship and always pertain to safety to the patient.
Diagnosis: Impaired sleep r/t nightmares, Risk for injury r/t to exhaustion, Risk for depression r/t isolation.
Planning/Implementation: In psych therapy CPT, PE, SE, and EDMR. In psych pharm anticonvulsants (Topiramate) and Prazosin (helps with hypervigilance)
Evaluation: Checking if pt can continue on activities on daily living without showing symptoms from above.
Name 4 parts of CLUSTER Personality Disorder
1) Antisocial PD
2) Borderline PD
3) Histrionic PD
4) Narcissistic PD
preoccupied with orderliness and mental and interpersonal control at the expense of openness or efficiency.
What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?