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DISORDERS and SYMPTOMS
DISORDERS and SYMPTOMS 2
PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG CLASSES
COPING MECHANISMS
THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS
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Mood which lasts at least 2 weeks and is accompanied with symptoms such as weight loss and difficulty concentrating.
What is depression?
100

Feeling helpless, hopeless, worthless 

What are mood disorders?

100
PROZAC
What is a SSRI?
100

Your body's response to stress or your body's reaction to a threat. 

What is the Flight or Flight (or freeze) response? 

100
Nurse mirrors patient's overt and covert message with use of patient's key words.
What is restating?
200
Disorder which involves lability in mood from depression to hypo-mania or mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
200

Alcohol, marijuana and prescription medication misuse are all part of this mental health disorder

What is Substance Use Disorder? 

200
Need to be concerned with dietary interactions, including cheeses, and wine.
What are MAOIs?
200
Examples: 

Sleeping excessively, drinking energy drinks to make up for sleep loss, avoid school/work by faking illness

What are unhelpful/negative stress management activities? 

200
Technique used to relieve stress in body by envisioning images that are calming and health enhancing.
What is Guided Imagery?
300
Characterized by unstable, intense relationships, impulsivity, rapid mood shifts, self-mutilation, fear of abandonment, splitting, and anger.
What is border line personality disorder?
300

Recurrent unwanted thoughts and/or repetitive behavior. 

What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? 

300
Class of drugs used to address both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are atypical anti-psychotics?
300

Examples: 

Expressing thankfulness, writing down what you are grateful for, writing a letter to say thank you are.

What is expressing gratitude? 

300

Scientific structuring of the environment (physical and social setting) that focuses on affecting positive change.

What is therapeutic milieu?

400
Characterized by presence of one or more symptoms suggestive of neurological disorder that cannot be explained by medical cause. Stress or conflict are associated with onset of symptoms.
What is conversion disorder?
400
Non-stop physical activity and lack of sleep and food can lead to physical exhaustion and if death if not treated. This is an emergency situation.
What is manic behavior?
400
Drugs which are used for seizure disorders and psychiatric disorders, especially for bipolar disorder.
What are mood stabilizers?
400

Examples: 

Meditation, going for a walk, reading a good book, managing time wisely

What are helpful stress management activities? 

400
Staff meetings and treatment plan are used to maintain control and minimize manipulation by a patient experiencing acute mania. The goal is to provide this for the patient.
What is consistency?
500
Involves a history of many physical complaints before age 30 that occur over years and impair social, occupational, or other functioning.
What is somatization disorder?
500

Positive Symptoms: Experiences grandiose or persecutory thoughts. May be concerned about thought broadcasting, insertion, or withdrawal. May have auditory hallucinations.

Negative Symptoms: Acts withdrawn, lacks energy, feels guilty.  


What is schizophrenia? 

500
Drugs which address schizophrenia's positive symptoms only.
What are typical anti-psychotics?
500

A technique that asks you to find things you can see, smell, hear, touch and taste (5 senses) to calm down when feeling anxious or distressed

What is the 5-4-3-2-1 coping technique? 

500
When a patient is acting out on a unit with verbal and/or physical aggressiveness, this is a priority.
What is safety for patient and others?