Nursing Practice – Mental Health
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Galen
Question:
- Sudden unexpected travel and an inability to recall one's identity and
information about some or all their past
- May assume a whole new identity
- After a few weeks to a few months, they may remember their former
identities and they may become amnesic to the identities they had
Answer:
Dissociative Fugue
,Question:
Inability to recall important personal information, often of a traumatic or
stressful event. Might be the entire event or selective information.
Answer:
Dissociative Amnesia
Question:
Presence of 2 or more distinct personality states that recurrently take
control of behavior
Answer:
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Question:
- Childhood sexual, physical or emotional abuse and other traumatic events
are associated with adults experiencing dissociative symptoms
- Dissociation is the most primitive defense mechanism
These are risk factors for what type of disorder?
Answer:
Dissociative disorders
,Question:
Treatment effectiveness for dissociative identity disorder is ......
Answer:
Integration
Question:
Phase 1 - Establish safety, stabilization and symptom reduction
Phase 2 - Confront and work through past trauma
Phase 3 - Identity integration and rehabilition
Answer:
Planning & Treatment
Question:
- Characterized by aggressive behaviors and emotions
- Problems relating to others in socially acceptable ways results in lack of
healthy relationships
- Can lead to isolation
- Recognizing and treating aggressive and impulsive behaviors while a
person is young can prevent further problems and avoid interactions with
the criminal justice system
Answer:
Impulse Control Disorders
, Question:
- Behavior exceeds the boundaries of what is socially acceptable
- Impacts emotions and behaviors
- The child is seen as difficult/defiant
- Extremely difficult to attend school, form friendships or be a functioning
member of the family
- Show preference to large rewards but little attention to increasing
penalties
- Untreated the child may grow out of it
Answer:
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Question:
- Insecure attachment
- Chaotic caregiving or harsh neglectful families
- Child abuse
- Lack of structure
This best describes risk factors of what behavioral disorder?
Answer:
Oppositional Defiant Disorder