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Galen MH Exam 3 Study Guide – Trauma, Dissociative Disorders, and Personality Disorders

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Comprehensive study notes for Galen MH Exam 3 covering trauma-related disorders, PTSD, dissociative disorders, personality clusters, suicide assessment, and neurodevelopmental conditions. Ideal for nursing students.

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1. Adverse Childhood Experiences: negatively impacts ability to deal with
stress 2. Reactive attachment: Lack of attachment to caregiver flat
(dysphoric)
3. dis-inhibited social engagement disorder: condition in which a child shows no
inhibitions whatsoever in approaching adults
4. Essential assessment data with trauma related disorders: was their an event how long
have symptoms environment (comfort w/ caregivers) safety
how interact w/ others
5. developmental assessment data with trauma related disorders: age what expecting
based on age are they behind
6. Implementation for trauma related disorders: safety & stabilization
reduce arousal & regulate
emotion
reduce/overcome
symptoms developmental
skill catch up teach coping
skills


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7. EMDR: Eye-movement Desensitization & Reprocessing. New treatment for PTSD, client
imagines the traumatic event and processes it in a non-threatening manner.
8. Advanced practice interventions with traumatic related disorders: EMDR CBT
9. Nursing interventions with traumatic related disorders: SSRIs
Therapy referral
decrease stimuli
tread lightly calm
soothing
approach
relaxation techniques
10. PTSD kids will be: withdrawn
recreate the trauma in
their play flat
guilty, shameful, hopeless
somatic symptoms
disrupted sleep
11. PTSD components in adults: 1. re-experience
2.Avoidance
3.Hypervigilance
4.alterations in mood
12. avoidance: won't talk about, avoid places
13. intrusive: flashbacks, nightmares
14. PTSD in adults, worry about: safety of pt, self and others many things can trigger


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15. hypervigilance: exaggerated startle response
16. ex. of causes of PTSD or acute stress d/o: car accident
sexual abuse
war
first responders
17. acute stress d/o: develops after exposure to a hightly traumatic event same as
PTSD except tf
18. acute stress d/o dx'ed from: 3 days to 1 month after event
19. if acute stress d/o is unresolved: develops into PTSD (more than a month)
20. adjustment diorder: precipitated by one stressful event (ex. divorce, retirement)
21. adjustment disorder dx'ed w/in: 3 months and occurs freq in hospitalized pts
22. complicated grief as adjustment disorder: occurs w/in 12 months of death of loved
one preoccupied w/ death, intense grief, diff. planning the future may occur
23. dissociative disorder: occurs after significant acute adverse experience emotionally
separates from the even unconsciously responds w/t sever interruption in
consciousness
24. depersonalization: outside of body & only observing it (out of body exp) feels
"weird", looks "weird"
25. derealization: you are not in this world; only observing it things around them are
not real
26. depersonalization & derealization can be: a symptom to anxiety or PTSD or a
disorder themselves

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