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Chapter 11: Responding to Mental Health Crisis, Emergency, and Disaster Flashcards

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What is coping?

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  • how people deal with life challenges
  • need to remain adequately fed, clothed, and sheltered
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What are coping styles?

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unique ways of accomplishing goals inlcuding habitual behaviours, modes of problem solving, forms of social interaction

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What are the 5 levels of maslow hierarchy of needs?

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  1. physiological needs (food, water)
  2. safety (security and shelter)
  3. love/belonging (friends, family)
  4. esteem (achievement, recognition)
  5. self-actualization
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How does maslows hierarchy of needs work?

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you must achieve the most basic of needs first (physiological, safety) before rising up to achieve self-actualization

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what is stress?

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occurs when the demands and challenges of your life situation exceed your capacity to manage them
- this “imbalance” between environmental challenges and coping capacity

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if stress becomes unmanageable, we may enter a state of crisis. true or false

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true

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What is a “state of crisis”?

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when attempts to regain balance in one’s life fails

typical turning point in development of mental disorders

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What are the 2 key elements of crisis states?

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  1. usual coping style doesn’t work in new situation
  2. do “more of the same” –> exaggerated form of usual coping style
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Stressful situations may increase a pre-existing mental health condition, making symptoms worse during crisis state. true or false

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true

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What type of cycle is present with crisis? is it tough to break?

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Vicious cycle
YES!

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What is a vicious cycle?

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  1. crisis
  2. newly triggered mental health problems, increase already exiting problems
  3. reduce coping ability
  4. increased situational stress

THE CYCLE JUST KEEPS REPEATING

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If a crisis state is not resolved what could happen?

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  • becomes more intense
  • lead to poor self care or self harm
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Who are first-contact providers?

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  • police officers and paramedics
  • trained to de-esculate the situations
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What is the Mental Health Act?

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regulates the involuntary transportation and admission to psychiatric services for individuals suspected of suffering from mental illness

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What is a “commital”?

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  • someone who gets hopsitalized
  • balance the goal of ensuring safety with the goal of ensuring the rights are respected
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What is a community treatment order?

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indiduval required to accept specific treatment or support in the community for a specific period of time

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What are Hospital Emerg departments like?

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  • for immediate protection and urgent care
  • geared to more dealing with physical emergencies –> however that is changing to add mental health!
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What are crisis lines?

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  • provide quick access to advice, info, and referral over the telephone
  • redirect to appropriate help and de-escalate crisis
  • big with suicide
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What are Mobile services in mental health?

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delivered by individuals or a small team of mental health profs who travel to meet with an individual in crisis

20
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What are shelters?

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provide short-term accommodation for people who are homeless or experiencing a crisis that has interupted their living situation

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What is acute hospitalization?

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  • in-patient treatement for an acute mental health problem
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What are in-patient units designed to do in mental health?

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address the need for safety and the patient’s specific needs

treatment includes: meds management, crisis management, counselling or therapy

tends to be brief, but may require follow up

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What are Acute Withdrawl Management and Detoxification Services?

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  • withdrawl management: addressed the physical health probelms experienced by people going through a withdrawl
  • detoxifcation = some type of substance that needs to be removed through care (meds, support, therapy, etc…)
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What are the 7 things we use to determine the level of suicide risk in an emergency?

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  1. active plan to commit suicide
  2. how dangerous is plan
  3. does person ahve access to lethal means of self harm
  4. previous self-harming behaviour
  5. situational factors
  6. presence/absence of mental health disorders or substance use problems
  7. social supports
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What are the 3 characteristics of suicidal thoughts about their life?

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  1. intolerable
  2. interminable
  3. inescapable
26
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How do we help a person become less suicidal?

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  • strengthen coping mechanisms!
  • treatment of outstanding mental health or substance use problems
27
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What is the “psychotic emergency”?

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severe disturbance of the capacity to distinguish reality an to think in a rational manner

confused and frigthening thoughts

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How do we manage a psychotic emergency?

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  • calm the individual
  • provide a safe environment
  • antipsychotic or sedative meds
  • use non-restrictive management
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How do we deal with a substance use emergency?

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  • provide a safe envrionemnt
  • administer meds to diminish agitation
30
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depression, psychosis or other symptoms of mental disorder may occur as part of withdrawl process. true or false

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true

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what are some downsides to substance use and getting help?

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  • may not be covered by public health insurance plans –> therefore do not go because it is not available
  • do not want to receive treatment
  • many resume patterm of substance use dependence
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What is trauma?

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experience extremely stressful events

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What is PTSD?

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  • have an ongoing crisis
  • flashbacks, frightening dreams, outbursts, etc..
34
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How do we treat PTSD? (2 ways)

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  • exposure therapy
  • critical incident stress debriefing
35
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what are the 3 stages of responding to disasters?

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  1. mitigation/preparedness
  2. response
  3. recovery
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What is the mitgation/preparedness phase?

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plan and prepare actions, communication and leadership roles

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WHat is the response phase?

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period immediately following the disaster

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What is the recovery phase

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extended period following the disaster

39
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Do most disasters have transitory symptoms and do not require formal intervention?

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YES

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