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What is the biological model?
It assumes that abnormal behavior is the result of a physical problem
What are the four lobes of the brain?
Frontal
Parietal
Temporal
Occipital
What herbal medicines cause increase risk of bleeding?
Ginkgo Biloba with Warfarin
What does the ACT team do?
Works with patient in their home or other agencies
on call 24 hours a day
Consists of RN's, social workers, psychologist, psychiatrist
What does Milieu Therapy offer the client?
A sense of security and promotes healing
How does the biological model work?
Locates the illness or disease in the body and targets the site using drugs, diet or surgery
What is the function of the Parietal lobe?
Sensory and Motor information
What herbal medicine causes increase risk of hepatoxicity?
Kava
What are the three types of prevention strategies?
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
What does structures aspect of milieu therapy include?
Activities
Rules
Reality orientation practices
Environment
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
Focused on electrical stimulation of the brain
What is the functions of the frontal lobe?
Thought process
Decision making
What is the least restrictive mental health treatment center?
Primary care
Specialty care
Secondary Prevention
Closets: breakaway bars and hooks to hold minimum weight
Windows locked
Door open out
Continuous hinges on the door
Furniture anchored
Plumbing fixtures boxed in
What conditions are ECT used on?
Psychiatric disorders : Severe depression, Mania, Catatonia
Neurological Disorders: Parkinson's, Epilepsy, Pain conditions
What is the function of the temporal lobe?
Language comprehension
Stores sounds into memory
Expression of emotions
What is the most restrictive mental health treatment center?
State hospitals
Intervention that are designed to prevent the onset of future problems/ illness are what type of prevention?
What is minority status?
A subset of people who think of themselves and are thought of by others as a differentiated group
What happens when neurotransmitters are altered?
This can lead to a mental illness but also are the site for pharmacological treatment
What is the function of the occipital lobe?
Interprets visual images
*Think everything visual
What is a common outpatient psychiatric mental health center?
ACT team ( Assertive Community Treatment)
Treatment designed to improve the quality of life and reduce symptoms of problem/illness is what type of prevention?
Tertiary Prevention
How can racial groups be distinguished?
Visually from one another based on physical characteristics