Anxiety & stress
This adverse effect of buspirone should be reported to the provider.
What is sweating?
Sweating could indicate serotonin syndrome.
Asking a client "why are you so angry" is nontherapeutic for this reason.
What is it causes the patient to be defensive and can expect a deeper response into the patient's behavior than they are able to provide?
Remember, asking why is rarely a correct response.
This is the term for inflated self-regard.
What is grandiosity?
This may occur in mania when patients exaggerate their achievements or importance, state they know famous people, or believe they have great powers.
A patient with a history of strokes and recent memory problems and confusion would be at risk for this type of neurocognitive disorder.
What is vascular neurocognitive disorder?
Medications for binge-eating disorders could cause this side effect.
What is severe liver damage?
Mild anxiety has this effect on learning.
What is mild anxiety enhances learning by sharpening the senses, increasing the perceptual field, and results in heightened awareness of the environment.
This would be the expected follow-up for a patient with borderline personality disorder.
What is DBT?
DBT emphasizes acceptance and change, focuses on skills like mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. Of note, CBT focuses on cognitive restructuring and changing negative thought patterns.
Dopaminergic dysfunction is linked to these disorders.
What are schizophrenia disorders?
This is an important clinical pearl when considering verbal de-escalation methods with patients with major NCD.
What is the patient is unable to remember the consequences, therefore behavior-modification techniques do not work.
This decrease in white blood count can be fatal and commonly occurs with antipsychotics.
What is agranulocytosis?
Agranulocytosis frequently occurs when taking Clozaril.
Fear is an cognitive process whereas anxiety is this type of process.
What is emotional?
Anxiety is an emotional response.
True or false. There are several FDA-approved drugs specific to the treatment of personality disorders.
False. Patients may benefit from off-label uses of various classes of drugs, depending on their personality disorder.
A patient believes the FBI implanted a chip in their brain to control their thoughts. This is an example of this.
What are delusions of control?
Name a risk factor for delirium in older adults.
What is polypharmacy, infections, and anesthesia?
Thes drugs are considered first line for treatment of depression in the elderly.
What are SSRIs?
This physiological effect may result in this after a prolonged stress response.
What is decreased resistance to disease?
During the stage of exhaustion, the body's compensatory mechanisms no longer function effectively, and diseases of adaptation occur (Seyle's generation adaptation syndrome).
Individuals with this disorder tend to always be in a state of crisis.
What is borderline personality disorder?
A patient with bipolar disorder refuses lithium due to the weight gain. Name an alternative medication that is also an anticonvulsant.
What is depakote?
Depakote is an anticonvulsant that also has mood-stabilizing effects.
This is an early symptom of vascular NCD.
What is forgetfulness?
This is a violation of civil law.
What is a tort?
Torts can be intentional or unintentional.
A patient feels they should just forget their problems. This is an example of this type of problem resolution.
What is a distorted thinking that leads to erroneous or dysfunctional appraisal of situations?
This may occur in generalized anxiety disorder.
These two personality disorders could exhibit disruptive behavior during group therapy sessions.
What are histrionic and borderline personality disorder?
Both could have impulsive behavior. Patients with histrionic personality disorder may display extreme attention-seeking behaviors.
These are signs of anorexia nervosa.
What are gross distortion of body image, preoccupation with food, refusal to eat. Other symptoms could include hypothermia, bradycardia, hypotension and orthostatic changes, lanugo, and other metabolic changes.
This neurotransmitter is destroyed in Alzheimer's disease.
What is acetylcholine?
Drugs given to patients with AD will help slow the progression by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase, which delays the destruction of acetylcholine, which is necessary for the memory process.
The functions of histamine are related to these.
What are wakefulness, pain sensation, and the inflammatory response?