Areas of Clinical Focus
What is the disease model?
- states that addictions are a disease that becomes more severe over time and needs treatment
What are the symptoms of a hallucinogen overdose?
- longer more intense episodes
- psychosis
-coma
-death
What is the James-Lange theory of emotion?
Emotions are the body's reaction to changes in the ANS caused by external stimuli
theory is supported by the fact that quadriplegics feel less intense emotions
What is the role and scope of a psychiatric nurse?
- provide quality medical care
-administration of Provider-ordered medication
- A psychiatrist may delegate some therapeutic counseling and intervention to the nurse
- can provide the client with outpatient care that is easily accessible
Described Kholberg's Stage 4 of conventional level of moral development?
- shifts from narrow local and narrow view to a larger social system perspective
- observance of laws are key aspect of social responsibility
-sophisticated understanding of the law and only violate laws when they conflict with social duties- seen as necessary to maintain protections that the legal system provides to all
What is the CAGE tool?
- used to identify problem drinkers
What is the first stage of a career counseling assignment?
- Assess the client for mental health problems that may not have already been identified and treated
- Record problems already being treated
-Assess for referral to specialist needs
-Assess clients with no mental health issues according to their culture, work, and life values
According to Rychlak, what is curative motive?
healing process includes modifying behaviors detrimental to the client's success in society
What is an exploratory research design?
- used when little is known about the problem
-flexibility
-results comprise of detailed description of all observations, arranged in an order- draw conclusions with an educated guess or hypothesis
Why is a vocational preference instrument used?
to find a pattern of characteristics that described a person's preferences or inclination to leisure, work, and educational settings
-language disorders
-speech and sound disorders
-childhood-onset fluency disorder (stuttering)
- social communications disorder
What is the Life Values Inventory (LVI)?
- created in 1996 by Crace and Brown
- values under 5 life spectra: work, leisure, spirituality, citizen, and relationships to significant others
- all spectra must be assessed for the client to find fulfillment in career planning
-value scale from 1-5 shows how strongly the value guides their behavior
What did John Locke believe about the human brain?
-absorbs environmental events and sensory inputs from its surroundings to form meaning and knowledge
-studying only nature and the environment unlocks mental health needs
-evolved into behavior therapy and behavioral counseling
What are incorporated office groups?
- share the same workspace
-members are not personally liable for legal judgments against the corporation
What are selection tests?
used in educational and occupational counseling
- ex LSAT and GRE
-used to select individuals
What is panic disorder?
recurrent brief but intense fear in the form of panic attacks with psychological and physiological symptoms
How does a person typically respond in the depression stage of grief?
- anticipates the loss and changes it will bring with a sense of sadness and grief
What is Leibniz's theory of mind and how did it develop into person-centered psychotherapy?
- believe in personology- a person can change when their perceptual awareness is changed
- his theory of mind- subjective reality- a person's perspective comes from their own mind
-his theory evolved into humanistic psychology, resulting in Rogers' person-centered therapy
What is utilitarianism?
-John Stuart Mill
- more positive consequences for as many people as possible
-the good of the many v the good of the few
What are placement tests
determines where a client belongs in a program
What is the political approach to social welfare policy making?
-recognizes the importance of compromise, power, competing interests, and partial solutions
-usually those with the least power are affected the most by political change
-those with the most power are usually trying to keep it or gain more
- this means that the disadvantaged can become marginalized
What is the difference between grief counseling and grief therapy?
-1991- William Worden
-grief counseling- facilitates the normal, uncomplicated response to death in a reasonable amount of time
-grief therapy- uses special techniques to end abnormal, complicated grief that is prolonged, produces somatic symptoms or behavior derangements, or is exaggerated
What are Freud's levels of awareness?
-Conscious- thoughts, feelings, desires of which a person is aware and able to control
-Preconscious- thoughts, feelings, desires not in immediate awareness but can be recalled to the conscious mind
-Unconscious- thoughts, feelings, desires not available to the conscious mind
What is included in the HIPPA Security Rule?
-EHR must be secure and protected against threats, hazards, and unauthorized disclosure, in compliance with established standards
What is family violence?
physical, emotional, verbal, and sexual behaviors between family members or within individuals living in the same home
-abuse and neglect
-elderly, spouse, children