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Mental Health Ch. 7 Tx Settings Flashcards

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

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Patient

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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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SPMI is?

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Serious & persistent mental illness

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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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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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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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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
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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
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Where will the criminally insane be treated?
Forensic units of large state hospitals
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Where may adolescents & children be treated for mental illness or disorders?
- Schools - Camps - Activity programs
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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?
Treated together in group therapy
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Name the different types of outpatient settings.
``` - Aftercare clinics attached to hospitals with inpatient services - walk-in programs in community mental health centers - psychosocial clubhouses - Social & community agencies ```
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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?
Inpatient settings
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Name the 2 types of inpatient settings.
- Acute | - Chronic
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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.
Acute inpatient settings
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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.
Chronic inpatient settings
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Name the bill responsible for the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients.
Community Health Act of 1963
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Name 2 disorders that qualify for chronic inpatient settings.
- Schizophrenia | - Organic mental disorders
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Municipal, state, & county hospitals,VA, US Public Health Service facilities are examples of?
Public institutions
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What was the purpose for the deinstitutionalization in 1963?
Liberate Pts from confinement & enable them to integrate into community housing & employment.
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Where may many of the deinstitutionalized Pts found?
- Correctional facilities - Shelters for homeless - On the street
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Name the 3 populations of large public psychiatric centers.
- 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
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Name the emphasis of acute wards.
Medical tx & control of symptoms through the use of medications.
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Name the emphasis of chronic wards.
Maintenance or development of: - Daily living skills - Work-related skills - Leisure activities
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If & when Pts are discharged from the large state hospital or public institution, where may they be assigned?
Satellite clinic near the Pts home that provides aftercare services
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Define IPRT.
Intensive psychiatric rehabilitation tx
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Name the interventions associated with the IPRT.
- Develop specific skills for the PTs target environment - Identifying & supplying environmental supports - Providing social supports
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Tx aims to reduce problem behaviors & enhance coping strategies describes the focus for...
Behavioral units
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Name the specific units that provide tx for Schizophrenia, other psychoses, & TBI.
Behavioral units
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Name the purpose of transitional services.
Prepare PTs to move from the hospital to the community
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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...
Quarterway houses
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For acute care inpatient wards, what do the evaluations typically focus on?
- Cognitive level - Self-care skills - Independent living skills
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Ronbinson & Avallone developed what approach.
Activities health approach
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Describe the purposes of the activities health approach.
- 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
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Name the approach that Peloquin developed.
Interview/therapy set
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Who & why was the Interview/therapy set developed for?
Provides evaluation & tx for large numbers of acute care Pts who stay less than 2 weeks
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The process of orienting Pts to the purpose, goals, & procedures used in a particular tx describes...
Therapy set
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Name the 3 forms for the interview/therapy set.
- Letter- describes OT in simple language - Activity guide- self administered data collection instrument - Checklist of goals- based on objectives identified from the activity guide
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Private hospitals run for profit are...
Proprietary hospitals
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Outpatient Settings

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