Mental Health Study Guide #1
Resilient
- Ability and capacity to secure resources needed to support well-being.
- Ability to withstand and recover quickly from difficult situation.
- Strive, adapt and recover
Mental illness versus physical illness
- Diathesis-stress Model (Nature versus nurture)
- Diathesis – Biological predisposition“Greek word”- predisposition/sensibility
***EXAM***
- Stress – Environmental stress or trauma
- According to this model, people are born with a certain biological or genetic
predisposition to a mental illness.
- Most accepted explanation for mental illness how biology and environment
work together on people's minds
■ Assertion: Most psychiatric disorders result from a combination of genetic
vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
Traits of mental health to look at include:
- Is she thinking rationally?
- What about her communication skills?
- How has she handled stress in her life in the past? (resilience)
- How does she feel about her self (self-esteem)?
- Is she able to function as wife, mother, daughter, employee?
Optimism
- characteristic of a person who has a high level of resilience( the ability to
withstand quickly in any difficult situation).
Insulin Shock Therapy:
- insulin coma therapy (ICT) was a form of psychiatric treatment in which
patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to
produce daily comas over several weeks.
- Nurses must adjust their own practices to meet their patient’s cultural beliefs and
practices.
, 1950s: First antipsychotic medication
- Know Thorazine on exam
ICD-10-CM
- Resources for: disease coding,signs and symptoms abnormal findings, and
psychiatric complaints.
Therapeutic Milieu
- defined as “a scientific structuring of the environment to effect behavioral
changes and to improve the psychological health and functioning of the
individual”.
- Surroundings and physical environment
- Unit Structure: activities, ground rules, reality orientation
- Emotional climate
- Sense of safety and security
- Managing behavioral crises
- Safety of staff and patient
- Encourage patient to walk to orient them
Assistive Outpatient Treatment(AOT)
- Outside facility once a week
ACT Program Guidelines 2007
- Delivers comprehensive and effective services to individuals whose needs have
not been well met by more traditional service delivery approaches.
ABC
- Appearance
- Behavior
- Communication
Resilient
- Ability and capacity to secure resources needed to support well-being.
- Ability to withstand and recover quickly from difficult situation.
- Strive, adapt and recover
Mental illness versus physical illness
- Diathesis-stress Model (Nature versus nurture)
- Diathesis – Biological predisposition“Greek word”- predisposition/sensibility
***EXAM***
- Stress – Environmental stress or trauma
- According to this model, people are born with a certain biological or genetic
predisposition to a mental illness.
- Most accepted explanation for mental illness how biology and environment
work together on people's minds
■ Assertion: Most psychiatric disorders result from a combination of genetic
vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
Traits of mental health to look at include:
- Is she thinking rationally?
- What about her communication skills?
- How has she handled stress in her life in the past? (resilience)
- How does she feel about her self (self-esteem)?
- Is she able to function as wife, mother, daughter, employee?
Optimism
- characteristic of a person who has a high level of resilience( the ability to
withstand quickly in any difficult situation).
Insulin Shock Therapy:
- insulin coma therapy (ICT) was a form of psychiatric treatment in which
patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to
produce daily comas over several weeks.
- Nurses must adjust their own practices to meet their patient’s cultural beliefs and
practices.
, 1950s: First antipsychotic medication
- Know Thorazine on exam
ICD-10-CM
- Resources for: disease coding,signs and symptoms abnormal findings, and
psychiatric complaints.
Therapeutic Milieu
- defined as “a scientific structuring of the environment to effect behavioral
changes and to improve the psychological health and functioning of the
individual”.
- Surroundings and physical environment
- Unit Structure: activities, ground rules, reality orientation
- Emotional climate
- Sense of safety and security
- Managing behavioral crises
- Safety of staff and patient
- Encourage patient to walk to orient them
Assistive Outpatient Treatment(AOT)
- Outside facility once a week
ACT Program Guidelines 2007
- Delivers comprehensive and effective services to individuals whose needs have
not been well met by more traditional service delivery approaches.
ABC
- Appearance
- Behavior
- Communication
