Chapter 1 - Psych Test #1

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what is menta l health


 
  
Created Feb 14, 2011
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Mental Health- Definition?
 
SUCCESSFUL performance of mental functions, resulting in the ability to engage in PRODUCTIVE...
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Mental Ilness- Definition?
 
a clinically significant behavioral r sychological syndrome experienced by a person and...
3
Moderate to Sever Illness? (4)
 
1.) Anxiety Disorders 2.) Somatoform/ Dissociative Disorder 3.) Personality Disorder 4.) Eating...
4
Severe to Psychotic Illness? (4)
 
1.) Depression 2.) Bipolar Disease 3.) Schizophrenia 4.) Dementia
5
Psychiatric Nursing- Art & Science?
 
Art = the care, empathy, attending and advocacy   Science = the applied knowledge base
6
Epidemiology of mental disorders studies?
 
the distribution of mental disorders (identifying high-risk groups & high-risk factors)
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Clinical Epidemiology studies?
 
groups treated for specific mental disorders (natural history of disease, diagnostic screening...
8
DSM IV - what does it do?
 
used ti diagnose a psychiatric disorder, by dividing mental disorders into types based on SYMPTOMS...
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DSM IV - classification system?
 
uses AXIS SYSTEM, requiring judgments to be made on each of five axes, forcing the diagnostician...
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Axis 1- includes?
 
mental disorder that is the focus of treatment (generally more acute than chronic, Short -term with...
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Axis 1 - example?
 
Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia (acute & being addressed)
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Axis 2 - includes?
 
Personality disorders and mental retardation (more chronic, generally begins in childhood)
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Axis 2- example?
 
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (lifelong issue)
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Axis 3- includes?
 
General medical disorder relevant to the mental disorder in Axis 1
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Axis 3- example?
 
Diabetes Mellitus (medical problem)
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Axis 4- includes?
 
Psychosocial and environmental problems
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Axis 4- example?
 
Occupational Problems; Frequent absence from work (family issues)
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Axis 5- includes?
 
Global assessment of functioning (GAF) score: 100 = excellent, 50 = needs hospitalization (helps...
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Axis 5- example?
 
GAF of 55
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There is much "_________" in mental disoders, and much mental in "__________" disoders!
 
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