Eating Disorders
This soft, downy body hair can appear in clients with anorexia nervosa as the body attempts to conserve heat.
What is lanugo?
This is a purposeful, interpersonal exchange using verbal and nonverbal methods to assist patients in emotional distress, understand their present needs, and provide perceived support.
What is therapeutic communication?
Fluoxetine is the medication of choice for clients with bulimia nervosa. What kind of antidepressant is it?
What is a SSRI?
This ethical principle refers to treating all clients fairly and equitably.
What is justice?
A child with this diagnosis may run in circles, interrupt others, and have difficulty focusing.
Clients with bulimia nervosa may show this sign on the knuckles caused by repeated self-induced vomiting.
What is Russell's sign?
Teaching parents how to communicate and support their teen with anorexia nervosa aligns with this type of therapy.
What is family-based therapy?
Clients taking fluoxetine for depression should take the medication at this time of day due to its activating effects.
What is in the morning?
This refers to the psychosocial and physical environment on the inpatient unit that forms the basis of therapeutic structure.
What is the milieu?
A child who has been a victim of gun violence and mimics shooting a gun whenever someone enters the room is demonstrating this PTSD-related manifestation.
What is posttraumatic play?
This electrolyte imbalance is commonly seen in clients with bulimia nervosa due to vomiting.
What is hypokalemia?
Mindfulness and distress-tolerance skills are core components of this therapeutic modality often used for eating disorders.
What is dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)?
Clients prescribed MAOIs must avoid foods containing this substance to prevent hypertensive crisis.
What is tyramine?
Legally ordered, this concept describes a client who can versus cannot make their own medical decisions.
What is competency?
An adolescent who lies, sets fires, and shows aggression toward animals may meet criteria for this disorder.
What is Conduct Disorder?
Characterized by obsessively “clean” eating and eliminating foods perceived as impure; this condition is increasingly recognized in mental health settings.
What is orthorexia?
This syndrome is often recognized when a severely malnourished client suddenly develops peripheral edema during nutritional rehabilitation.
What is Refeeding Syndrome?
This medication is prescribed for opioid withdrawal—not naloxone and not benzodiazepines.
What is methadone?
When assessing ____________________________, the nurse considers factors like housing instability, education, medical comorbidities, and financial stability.
What are the Social Determinants of Mental Health (SDoMH)?
Sudden visual hallucinations and fluctuating cognition are classic features of this type of dementia.
What is Lewy Body dementia?
This is the priority goal in the treatment plan for a client with bulimia and anorexia nervosa—before psychotherapy or cycle interruption.
What is medical stabilization?
This is the terminology used to identify when the client views the therapist as a parent or authority figure.
What is transference?
Uncontrolled mouth movements, lip smacking, and tongue protrusion are characteristic of this antipsychotic-related condition.
What is tardive dyskinesia (TD)?
A client approaches you saying “A government agency is attempting to capture me." They are experiencing what type of psychotic symptom?
What is a delusion?
Repetitive shrugging and yelling out random words are behaviors characteristic of this neurodevelopmental disorder.
What is Tourette syndrome?