Mood Disorders
Abnormally elevated mood, which can also be described as expansive or irritable, usually requires hospitalization.
Mania
Age group that will feel effects of alcohol consumption at lower doses.
Elderly
Vital for nurses to perform when caring for a client with a personality disorders & should be performed before care
Self-assessment
Misinterprets physical manifestations as evidence of a serious disease
Illness Anxiety Disorder or Hypochondriasis
Can be defined as the feelings or reactions an individual has to a loss in one's life.
Grief
A single episode of unipolar depression resulting in significant change in client’s normal functioning accompanied by at least 5 specific clinical findings, for a minimum of 2 week.
Major Depressive Disorder
Effect of younger age of initial substance use on developing SUD
Younger age of initial substance use the higher the incidence of developing SUD
Extreme dependency in a close relationship with urgent search to find a replacement when 1 relationship ends.
Dependent personality disorder
(Cluster C:anxious/fearful/insecurity/inadequacy)
is expression of psychological stress through physical manifestations
Somatization
Outward display of loss
Mourning
A less severe episode of mania that lasts at least 4 days accompanied by 3 or more manifestations of mania. Hospitalization not required, client is less impaired.
Hypomania
Antidote for opioid overdose
Naloxone (Narcan)
Characterized by emotional attention-seeking behavior, in which person needs to be center of attention; often seductive and flirtatious
Histrionic personality disorder
(cluster B:dramatic/emotional/erratic)
When a client exhibits neurological manifestations in the absence of a neurological diagnosis.
Conversion Disorder
Grief that is experienced before the expected loss of someone or something
Anticipatory grief
Rapid, continuous speech with sudden & frequent topic changes.
Flight of Ideas
Therapeutic drugs used for the management of opioid dependence.
Opioid agonist
Defense mechanism where client is unable to incorporate positive & negative aspects of oneself or others into a whole image
Splitting
Client consciously reports physical or psychological manifestations. Falsification of manifestations is done in the absence of personal gain by the client other than possible fulfillment of an emotional need for attention.
Factitious Disorder ( formerly Munchausen's)
Suggests that the process of grieving oscillates (shifts back and forth) between two types of stressors: loss-oriented and restoration grief
Dual Process Model of Grief
Has at least 2 years of repeated hypomania symptoms that do not meet criteria for hypomanic episodes alternating with minor depressive episodes.
Cyclothymic disorder ( some call this Bipolar III)
Antidote for benzodiazepine toxicity
Flumazenil
Characterized by emotional detachment, disinterest in close relationships, & indifference to praise or criticism, often uncooperative
Schizoid personality disorder
(Cluster A:Odd/Eccentric)
Exaggerates or feigns illness in order to escape duty or work. Consciously motivated and driven by personal gain (i.e. disability benefits)
Malingering
Grief related to a relationship that does not coincide with what is considered by society to be a recognized or justified loss
Disenfranchised grief