Mental Health Treatments
This procedure uses controlled electric currents to treat resistant or severe depression.
What is ECT?
Attributing your own feelings to someone else.
What is projection?
These are involuntary muscle movements that can result from antipsychotic use.
What are extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)?
A time-limited situation where usual coping mechanisms fail.
What is a crisis?
This evidence-based therapy focuses on identifying and changing negative thought patterns and behaviors, and is commonly used to treat depression and anxiety disorders
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
These medications are used to treat anxiety and include drugs like lorazepam.
What are benzodiazepines?
Throwing a tantrum as a coping response to anxiety.
What is regression?
A serious side effect involving repetitive facial movements and mild hand tremors?
What is tardive dyskinesia? (TD)
Repeated loss of motor or sensory function with no medical basis.
What is a somatic symptom disorder?
This tool is used by mental health professionals to track and rate abnormal movements in patients taking antipsychotic medications, helping detect early signs of tardive dyskinesia.
What is the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS)?
This mood stabilizer is commonly used to treat bipolar disorder.
What is lithium?
Redirecting unacceptable impulses into constructive activities.
What is sublimation?
Agitation, confusion, hyperreflexia, and shivering may indicate this life-threatening condition.
What is Serotonin Syndrome?
A person believes they are seriously ill despite medical reassurance.
What is illness anxiety disorder?
Building trust and establishing roles occurs in this phase of the nurse-client relationship.
What is the orientation phase?
A class of medications that may cause Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS).
What are antipsychotics?
Choosing to consciously avoid thinking about something upsetting or voluntarily pushing away a thought but knowing it exists.
What is suppression?
Early signs of lithium toxicity include this common GI symptom.
What is nausea or diarrhea?
A crisis related to normal life transitions like retirement or parenthood.
What is a maturational crisis?
The term that describes certain setting or environments designed to help clients replace inappropriate behaviors with more effective personal and psychosocial skills by using positive peer pressure
What is therapeutic milieu?
A technique that involves gradual exposure to a feared stimulus.
What is systematic desensitization?
A person forgets details of a traumatic event and feels detached from themselves.
What is dissociation?
A potentially fatal rash linked to mood stabilizers like lamotrigine.
What is Stevens-Johnson Syndrome?
Repeated loss of motor or sensory function with no medical basis.
What is conversion disorder?
DBT interventions include teaching skills for mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and ______.
What is distress tolerance?