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Mental Health Ch. 7 Tx Settings Flashcards

1
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Suggests a dependent relationship to professional staff is known as a…

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Patient

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2
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What does maladaptive mean?

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Mental illness / dysfunction

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The name patient is most appropiately applied to a person who is…

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Hospitalized or receiving services as an out-patient

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Suggests that the person requires substantial supervision or personal assistance with ADL is known as a…

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Care recepient

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Suggests that the individual is hiring the practitioner to perform a service; sometimes used in day tx programs is known as…

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Client

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6
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SPMI is?

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Serious & persistent mental illness

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7
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Preference by persons with SPMI because it implies voluntary use of mental health services is known as a…

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Consumer

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Preferred by persons who belong to a psychosocial club is known as…

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Member

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The implication that the person has been incarcerated, but found mentally incompetent to go to prison. The term is used only in forensic environments & is known as an…

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Inmate

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The person requires 24 hour assistance / supervision & resides in a nursing home, group home or other supervised living environment is known as a…

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Resident

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Term used by persons with diagnoses of serious mental disorders to connote their commitment to living with the threat of relapse is known as a…

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Survivor

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Predominantly are social workers or nurses. They will do an immediate on-site assessment at the ER & based upon the individual state criteria, determine what care will immediately follow and are known as…

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Case managers

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What is the difference between a person with a “mild” mental illness vs. a person with a “serious” mental illness?

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The seriously ill individual feels they do not need assistance & that there is nothing wrong with them.

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Why may a child be brought into a mental health system?

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Family issues or the inability to cope with behaviors, abuse, or abandonment

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15
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What is the approximate percentage of prison inmates with severe & persistent mental illness?

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10%

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What type of mental health patient are OTPs most likely to work with?

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Patients with severely disabling psychiatric disorders

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When is the serious mental health patient generally first recognized?

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  • Consistently symptomatic or disorganized as to require hospitalization
  • Admitted for detoxification
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Medical care for disease, injury, or other medically treatable condition is known as…

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Treatment

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An action undertaken in order to change what is happening or might happen in another’s affairs,especially in order to prevent the undesirable is known as…

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Intervention

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Work done by somebody for somebody else as a job or duty is known as a…

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Service

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21
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Tending to or supervising someone suggests…

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Care

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When would the term ‘care’ best be applicable?

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When serving those with advanced dementia & similarly disabling conditions.

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23
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Name the different types of psychiatric settings in which the OTP may work?

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  • Large public institutions
  • Nonprofit voluntary psychiatric hospitals
  • General hospitals
  • Proprietary hospitals
24
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Where may the aged & those with Alzheimer’s disease & other organic mental disorders may be treated?

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Long term care facilities such as:

  • Skilled nursing facilities
  • Assisted living environments
  • Person’s home
25
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Where will the criminally insane be treated?

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Forensic units of large state hospitals

26
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Where may adolescents & children be treated for mental illness or disorders?

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  • Schools
  • Camps
  • Activity programs
27
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When working with special needs groups such as battered women, sex offenders, child abusers,drug & alcohol abusers, persons with HIV or AIDS, personality or eating disorders, the special needs are best met how?

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Treated together in group therapy

28
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Name the different types of outpatient settings.

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- Aftercare clinics attached to
hospitals with inpatient services
- walk-in programs in community mental health centers
- psychosocial clubhouses
- Social & community agencies
29
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What setting is necessary for those who are violent or so disorganized they cannot meet their own needs for food, clothing, or shelter?

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Inpatient settings

30
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Name the 2 types of inpatient settings.

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  • Acute

- Chronic

31
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Name the settings that provide services on a short-term basis, generally for patients who have become ill suddenly or who have a history of psychiatric illness & have a sudden recurrence of psychotic symptoms.

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Acute inpatient settings

32
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Name the inpatient settings that provide supervision & services for persons who have severe & persistent mental illness & serious disabilities that impair community living.

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Chronic inpatient settings

33
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Name the bill responsible for the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients.

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Community Health Act of 1963

34
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Name 2 disorders that qualify for chronic inpatient settings.

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  • Schizophrenia

- Organic mental disorders

35
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Municipal, state, & county hospitals,VA, US Public Health Service facilities are examples of?

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Public institutions

36
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What was the purpose for the deinstitutionalization in 1963?

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Liberate Pts from confinement & enable them to integrate into community housing & employment.

37
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Where may many of the deinstitutionalized Pts found?

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  • Correctional facilities
  • Shelters for homeless
  • On the street
38
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Name the 3 populations of large public psychiatric centers.

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  • Pts too violent or suicidal to be released

- Those, w/ & w/o social support, cannot live in the community even w/ support despite adequate skills

39
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Name the emphasis of acute wards.

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Medical tx & control of symptoms through the use of medications.

40
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Name the emphasis of chronic wards.

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Maintenance or development of:

  • Daily living skills
  • Work-related skills
  • Leisure activities
41
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If & when Pts are discharged from the large state hospital or public institution, where may they be assigned?

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Satellite clinic near the Pts home that provides aftercare services

42
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Define IPRT.

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Intensive psychiatric rehabilitation tx

43
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Name the interventions associated with the IPRT.

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  • Develop specific skills for the PTs target environment
  • Identifying & supplying environmental supports
  • Providing social supports
44
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Tx aims to reduce problem behaviors & enhance coping strategies describes the focus for…

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Behavioral units

45
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Name the specific units that provide tx for Schizophrenia, other psychoses, & TBI.

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Behavioral units

46
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Name the purpose of transitional services.

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Prepare PTs to move from the hospital to the community

47
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Live-in settings that allow residents to explore the experience of more freedom in the community while receiving direct supervision from trained staff describes…

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Quarterway houses

48
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For acute care inpatient wards, what do the evaluations typically focus on?

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  • Cognitive level
  • Self-care skills
  • Independent living skills
49
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Ronbinson & Avallone developed what approach.

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Activities health approach

50
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Describe the purposes of the activities health approach.

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  • Engage in tasks similar to those pre-hospitalization
  • Monitor effects of meds on ability & function
  • Assess activities health & routine
  • Recommend services needed to improve everyday functioning after discharge
51
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Name the approach that Peloquin developed.

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Interview/therapy set

52
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Who & why was the Interview/therapy set developed for?

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Provides evaluation & tx for large numbers of acute care Pts who stay less than 2 weeks

53
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The process of orienting Pts to the purpose, goals, & procedures used in a particular tx describes…

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Therapy set

54
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Name the 3 forms for the interview/therapy set.

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  • Letter- describes OT in simple language
  • Activity guide- self administered data collection instrument
  • Checklist of goals- based on objectives identified from the activity guide
55
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Private hospitals run for profit are…

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Proprietary hospitals

56
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Pg. 192

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Outpatient Settings

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