De-escalation and use of force Flashcards
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Any situation in which a person’s mental state endangers them or the others around them.
Mental Health Crisis
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DSM-5
An action or speech used to deliberately aggravate or annoy someone.
Provocation
A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
Schizophrenia
A mental condition signified by alternating periods of excitement and depression.
Bipolar Disorder
A disorder characterized by excessive or unrealistic anxiety about two or more aspects of life (work, social relationships, financial matters, etc.), often accompanied by symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, or dizziness.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
A condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and constant vivid recall of the experience, with dulled responses to others and to the outside world.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Involves repeated, sudden episodes of impulsive, aggressive, violent behavior or angry verbal outbursts in which you react grossly out of proportion to the situation.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.
Clinical Depression
Recognition or affirmation that a person or their feelings or opinions are valid or worthwhile.
Validation
Excessive use of psychoactive drugs, such as alcohol, pain medications, or illegal drugs. It can lead to physical, social, or emotional harm.
Substance Abuse
A chronic, progressive disease characterized by significant impairment that is directly associated with persistent and excessive use of a psychoactive substance.
Substance Dependence
Avoiding the use of judgement
Non-Judgmental
An unrealistic distrust of others or a feeling of being persecuted.
Paranoia
A belief or altered reality that is persistently held despite evidence or agreement to the contrary, generally in reference to a mental disorder.
Delusion
When someone sees, hears, smells, tastes or feels things that don’t exist outside their mind.
Hallucination
The capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference.
Empathy
The action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way.
Reasoning
A short-term management technique designed to reduce potential permanent damage to an individual affected by a crisis.
Crisis Intervention
A medication or other intervention that reduces anxiety.
Anxiolytics
Anti-psychotic medications work by altering brain chemistry to help reduce psychotic symptoms like hallucinations, delusions and disordered thinking.
Anti-psychotic Medication
An institution where patients with psychiatric disorders live while receiving treatment.
Psychiatric Hospital
Breaks mental illness into four categories. Loss of reality, loss of hope, loss of control, and loss of perspective.
LOSS Model in Mental Illness
