Mental Disorders Do's/Don't Do's Flashcards
(68 cards)
Catatonic Behaviors
Behavior characterized by muscular tightness or rigidity and lack of response to the environment.
Negative Symptoms
A lack of behaviors or feelings that usually are present, such as:
- Losing interest in everyday activities, like bathing, grooming, or getting dressed.
- Feeling out of touch with other people, family, or friends. -Having little emotion or inappropriate feelings in certain situations.
Paranoid Type Definition
Involves false beliefs of being persecuted or plotted against.
Undifferentiated Type Definition
Symptoms fluctuate around.
Delirium
A disoriented reaction with restlessness and confusion. It may be associated with fear/hallucinations.
Substance abuse individuals often have issues with
time management
Reducing distractions and keeping lighting low may be useful environmental adaptations for individuals with
mania or hyperactivity
Providing a stimulating environment and real life activities is recommended for individuals experiencing
delusions
OT practitioners should leave doors open and avoid being alone with individuals who are
hostile or violent
Becoming familiar with an environment in advance and knowing what to expect can help reduce
anxiety
Time use assessments examine how individuals spend their time in
work, leisure and self-care activities
The most appropriate type of activities to begin treatment for a person with severe depression are
repetitive, structured and simple enough to ensure success such as housework, folding laundry, simple cooking, sanding, clerical tasks and sewing.
The psychoeducational model utilizes a
teacher-student format as opposed to learning by doing approach and often includes a homework component.
Activities that provide increased vestibular input (such as rocking) can help what?
reorganize the way the central nervous system organizes and interprets sensory input, which can help decrease agitation
A cooking group would support the experience of preparing and consuming normal size portions of food for individuals
with eating disorders.
Behavioral therapy approaches to OCD include
helping the client overcome the tendency toward compulsive behavior by identifying the triggers to a compulsive episode, planning a strategy for overriding the compulsion and continuing to do the activity or task.
A Role Checklist gathers information on the client’s what?
former and current roles and the value the client places on these roles, consistent with the Model of Human Occupation.
A projective test such as the House-Tree-Person is not designed to evaluate roles or role behavior but rather to reveal what?
a client’s personality
The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure helps clients identify what?
their perceptions of their own occupational performance
conversion disorder
a condition in which you show psychological stress in physical ways. The condition was so named to describe a health problem that starts as a mental or emotional crisis a scary or stressful incident of some kind and converts to a physical problem.
factitious disorder
are conditions in which a person deliberately and consciously acts as if he or she has a physical or mental illness when he or she is not really sick.
histrionic personality disorder
pattern of attention seeking behavior and extreme emotionality. Someone with histrionic personality disorder wants to be the center of attention in any group of people, and feel uncomfortable when they are not.
___________ has been shown to improve a sense of well-being in the caregiver and offers a suitable context for caregiving.
Embracing everyday occupations
Most substance abuse programs include or or more self-help groups that use a
classic 12-step process. Most substance abusers seek help through self-help groups. Occupational therapy practitioners working with this population are likely to become involved in facilitating or supporting these groups.
