MENTAL HEALTH & COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT - HLTH 1100
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
What is needed for successful recovery for someone with ABI?
Ans✓✓✓Consistent care helps the individual with a successful recovery
after an ABI.
How does schizophrenia affect a person's life? Ans✓✓✓have to manage
the symptoms of psychosis, as well as negative symptoms, at various
points during their lives. dealing with beliefs or experiences that others
don't believe or understand, can be very frightening, isolating and
frustrating.
What is Bipolar? Ans✓✓✓moments of extreme happiness and then
extreme sadness, manic and depressing episodes
Hypomania Ans✓✓✓A mild manic state in which the individual seems
infectiously merry, extremely talkative, charming, and tireless.
Elderly Depression Ans✓✓✓-common manifestation is bereavement
overload
-early awakening and loss of appetite
- often mistaken for DEMENTIA
Tx
-ECT is one of the safest and most effective!
, When is a client at greatest risk for suicide? Ans✓✓✓when they're
suddenly happy, more risk taking and giving things away that mean a lot
to them.
Actions towards a client that is suicidal Ans✓✓✓be yourself, listen, be
sympathetic, offer hope, take the person seriously
Agitation - how to deal with the aggressive or violent client?
Ans✓✓✓stay calm, adopt a passive and non-threatening body posture,
let the client air feelings and acknowledge them, ask open-ended
questions to keep a dialogue going, be flexible, use space for self-
protection structure the work environment to ensure safety, make sure
other clients are out of harm's way.
Safety precautions you should take when dealing with an aggressive
client Ans✓✓✓don't argue back, position self near the closet exit so you
have a way out, keep yourself a good distance away from the client
alcoholism and your role if you suspect a client is abusing alcohol/drugs
Ans✓✓✓report suspicions of substance abuse at once, avoid
confrontation, never buy alcohol, drugs or other substances for the
clients. Contact supervisor immediately and don't discuss with anyone
but the supervisor.
What is the gambler's fallacy? Ans✓✓✓the belief that the odds of a
chance event increase if the event hasn't occurred recently
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
What is needed for successful recovery for someone with ABI?
Ans✓✓✓Consistent care helps the individual with a successful recovery
after an ABI.
How does schizophrenia affect a person's life? Ans✓✓✓have to manage
the symptoms of psychosis, as well as negative symptoms, at various
points during their lives. dealing with beliefs or experiences that others
don't believe or understand, can be very frightening, isolating and
frustrating.
What is Bipolar? Ans✓✓✓moments of extreme happiness and then
extreme sadness, manic and depressing episodes
Hypomania Ans✓✓✓A mild manic state in which the individual seems
infectiously merry, extremely talkative, charming, and tireless.
Elderly Depression Ans✓✓✓-common manifestation is bereavement
overload
-early awakening and loss of appetite
- often mistaken for DEMENTIA
Tx
-ECT is one of the safest and most effective!
, When is a client at greatest risk for suicide? Ans✓✓✓when they're
suddenly happy, more risk taking and giving things away that mean a lot
to them.
Actions towards a client that is suicidal Ans✓✓✓be yourself, listen, be
sympathetic, offer hope, take the person seriously
Agitation - how to deal with the aggressive or violent client?
Ans✓✓✓stay calm, adopt a passive and non-threatening body posture,
let the client air feelings and acknowledge them, ask open-ended
questions to keep a dialogue going, be flexible, use space for self-
protection structure the work environment to ensure safety, make sure
other clients are out of harm's way.
Safety precautions you should take when dealing with an aggressive
client Ans✓✓✓don't argue back, position self near the closet exit so you
have a way out, keep yourself a good distance away from the client
alcoholism and your role if you suspect a client is abusing alcohol/drugs
Ans✓✓✓report suspicions of substance abuse at once, avoid
confrontation, never buy alcohol, drugs or other substances for the
clients. Contact supervisor immediately and don't discuss with anyone
but the supervisor.
What is the gambler's fallacy? Ans✓✓✓the belief that the odds of a
chance event increase if the event hasn't occurred recently
