Chapter 21-25 Flashcards
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What risk factors are in influence the incident of mental health?
Genetic biological and environmental
What connotes mental health?
It is shaped by social norms, that evolve from generation to generation
What does the western culture think of mental illness?
Any deviation of normative functions of the senses is indicative of a psychotic disorder
What is the definition of mental health?
 There’s no universally accepted definition
Widely excepted parameters, for what behaviors can note psychopathology must be used to measure mental illness in a population, incident, morbidity, and mortality
Who developed a standardized measurement for the diagnostic criteria to describe mental illnesses?
American psychiatric Association created the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, the DSM five
What is the leading cost of disability worldwide?
Psychiatric disorders
Every year how much of the worlds population suffers from a major mental illness
1/3
In what country threes is the projected lifetime risk of developing a major mental illness highest
Where the population is subject to sustained violence
What causes fragmentation in the in the delivery of mental health and prevent money from receiving of appropriate care
Stigma surrounding diagnosis and inequities in mental health benefits
Who has the highest rate of unmeet psychiatric care?
Elderly
People in rural areas
Ethnic minorities
What are some social consequences of failure to identify and treat mental illness?
Truancy
Incarceration
Addiction
Unplanned pregnancy
Poverty
Suicide
What are the major mental disorders grouped in?
Thought disorder
Mood disorder
Anxiety disorder
Further complicated by substance-abuse dementia and medical conditions
Who is at a high risk population for mental illness?
Unemployed, poor and homeless, have higher levels of depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and substance abuse
Why has the number of mentally ill clients who are homeless steadily increased in the US?
The government embarked on a systemic plan to deinstitutionalized the mentally ill
What are implications of an increased risk for schizophrenia?
Monozygotic twins
Pregnancy complications
Viral infection
Early childhood stress
Head injury
Cannabis abuse
When do symptoms of schizophrenia typically appear
Late adolescence, or young adulthood persist throughout life, causing significant impairment
What are some symptoms of schizophrenia?
Sleep disturbances, anxiety, irritability, deterioration in the role functioning, depressed mood, social withdrawal, poor concentration, suspiciousness, loss of motivation, and perceptual disturbances
What is the theory of early intervention?
Is that repeated episodes of psychosis are toxic to the brain they produced debilitating cognitive effects in early intervention, may minimize the effects
How can one have an early intervention program for the first episode of psychosis?
Mitigating the chronic
Debilitating course
Improve long-term outcomes
Identify those at risk
What is early intervention programs, and for the first episode of psychosis
Specialized teams of professionals whose primary goal is to maintain the individuals, current level of educational and vocational functioning through early treatment
What is the intervention program goal in the first episode of psychosis?
Enhancing treatment, adherence and schizophrenia
What is the most common factor associated with relapse and reoccurrence of a psychotic symptoms?
Non-adherence to medication
What are some nursing interventions to enhance medication adherence
Tertiary interventions to educate regarding medication and their side effects
What are some early interventions for someone experiencing their first episode of psychosis
Second generation antipsychotics
Psychotherapies psychoeducation, cognitive, behavioral therapy, family therapy