Mental Health & Addiction Flashcards

Question

depression

Answer 1

intense sadness, feelings of guilt, or worthlessness

Answer 2

depression and mania

Answer 3

depressed, limited enthusiasm, irritability, and feeling anxious

Answer 4

can’t function, want to die

Answer 5

symptoms are present most of the day, for more days than not, during a 2 year period (less severe than major depressive disorder, person does NOT want to die)

Answer 6

causes significant functional impairment in relationships

Answer 7

* poor interpersonal relationships *think they have special powers *peculiar behaviors * close to schizophrenic but no hallucinations *person is bizarre * want personal relationships

Answer 8

* person is bizarre * few peer relationships * don’t want relationships* * the person is a loner * fewer or no sexual experiences * differs from schizotypal because they don’t wants a relationship, schizotypal does

Answer 9

* often mistaken for narcissistic *externalize that they are the best *actively seek attention * the difference is that narcissistic really believes that they are the best, histrionics just seek attention

Answer 10

* different from OCD * perfectionist * orderly * OCD can’t control it, have to do _____

Answer 11

* 18 and older | * oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder are for kids

Answer 12

* younger than 18 * I don’t want to do what you say * like conduct disorder but not violent

Answer 13

* younger than 18 | * like oppositional defined disorder but violent

Answer 14

``` clinician’s observations: * appearance * speech * emotions (mood = how the client feels most of the time) (affects = way client shows emotions while with you) * thought process and content (process = how a person thinks) (content = what a person thinks about) * sensory perceptions * mental capacities * attitude towards the interviewer ```

Answer 15

``` mood = how the client feels most of the time affects = way client shows emotions while with you ```

Answer 16

``` process = how a person thinks content = what a person thinks about ```

Answer 17

a disturbance in the thought process which is characterized by a lack of goal direction, although the person eventually gets to your question (takes a while to get to the point of what they are saying)

Answer 18

certain words being uttered over and over again, regardless of what you have said. A sense that the client has to keep repeating that expression rather than choosing it because of the content you were discussing. Yes, yes, quite, quite, as a response no matter what the content.

Answer 19

* tangentiality - talking about the subject at hand, but not quite. If you ask someone about their job, they tell you about people looking for jobs * loose associations - a person moves from one topic to another without any apparent connection between the two * flight of ideas - often accompanied by rapid speech, but can occur without it, they cannot stop doing it

Answer 20

a person who is convinced that they have rare, unusual, magical, or exaggerated powers (e.g. they are of God, Napoleon)

Answer 21

person fears that they have some deadly disease or unusual condition

Answer 22

``` obsession = always a thought compulsion = always a deed ```

Answer 23

* repetitive cleaning or washing, most often ones hands * checking, such as returning to one’s house many times to make sure that the gas is off * counting, number of bathroom tiles

Answer 24

illusions = normal sensory events that are misperceived. e.g., the wind blows a curtain in your office and the client tells you that it was a vampire coming through the window hallucinations = an experience involving one of the five senses, unrelated to any external stimuli and clearly not true. * auditory - hear dead sister * visual - see the devil * olfactory - smell rotting fish * tactile - being touched by someone or something * gustatory - taste auditory and visual = most common olfactory, tactile, gustatory = very unusual

Answer 25

``` mental capacities section of the Mental Status Exam (MSE). The three orientations refer to: time place person ```

Answer 26

distinguished from PTSD because the symptom pattern is restricted to a duration of 3 days to 1 month following exposure to the traumatic event

Answer 27

is a central nervous system depressant. It is not a sedative, which is a term for medications

Answer 28

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, the designation for a class of antidepressants that work by increasing levels of serotonin in the brain

Answer 29

1) depressants 2) stimulants 3) hallucinogens 4) opiates

Answer 30

suppress central nervous system functions, decrease arousal, stimulation, breathing, lowers processing speed, helps to sleep or calm down, for anesthesia. (barbiturates, tranquilizers) not prescribed often and are addictive. Replaced with benzodiazepines also helps with seizures. Alcohol - lowers inhibitions

Answer 31

excite the central nervous system. Increase heart rate, alertness, blood pressure, more awake and energized, or nervous or giddy. Caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, amphetamines (Adderall), methamphetamines (MDMA, ecstasy, Molly)

Answer 32

opiates - natural opioides - synthetic can depress the central nervous system functions like depressants, but work differently than depressants. They are an analgesic - reduce the perception of pain. (morphine, codeine, heroin, oxycodone, Vicodin).