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Psych Tech 71
wk2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Government passed the National Mental Health Act 1964 after World War II. | Legislature provides funds for the education of psychiatrist, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatric nurses. |
| It protects the private and property rights of individuals and business, these legal actions are two basic types: torts and contracts. | Civil Law |
| provides protection from conduct deemed injurious to the public welfare. Ex. A theft by a hospital employee of supplies and drugs. | Criminal Law |
| Services aimed at reducing the incidence of mental disorders within the population | Primary Prevention |
| Interventions aimed at minimizing early symptoms of psychiatric illness and direct toward reducing the prevalence and the duration of the illness | Secondary Prevention |
| Tertiary Prevention- Services aimed at reducing the residual defects that are associated with severe and persistent mental illness | Tertiary Prevention |
| National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)- | It defines Program of assertive community treatment (PACT) as service-delivery model that provides comprehensive, locally based treatment to people with serious and persistent medical illness. |
| Which of the following represents a nursing intervention at the Primary level of prevention? | Teaching a class in parent effectiveness training |
| Which of the following represents a nursing intervention at the Secondary level of prevention? | Providing support in the emergency room to rape victim |
| Which of the following represents a nursing intervention at the Tertiary level of prevention? | Serving as a case manager for a mentally ill homeless client |
| John, a homeless person, has just come to live in the shelter. The shelter nurse is assigned to his care. Which of the following is a Priority intervention on the part of the nurse? | Conducting a behavioral and needs assessment on John |
| Dorthea Dix, | IN 1841, a former schoolteacher, started a campaign that resulted in the establishment of a number hospital for the mentally ill. |
| Primary prevention | Reduces the incidence of mental disorders within the population. Targeting at risk groups. We are going to educate our society. -How do we target? EDUCATION |
| Secondary prevention | Shorten the duration of the illness -How do we do this? PROMPT and EFFECTIVE TREATMENT |
| Tertiary prevention- | Reduce effects that is associated with a chronic mental illness -How? Maintain therapy groups and psychotropic medications for improvement |
| Case management | A way of coordinating health care services required to meet the needs of the client |
| Primary Prevention (community as client) | To identify stressful life events that precipitate crisis and target the relevant population at risk To intervene with these high-risk population to prevent or minimize harmful consequence |
| High-risk Population | Teenagers Marriages Parenthood Midlife Retirement |
| Secondary prevention | Early detection and prompt intervention with individuals experiencing mental illness symptoms |
| Adolescence -Inpatient care may be required for??? | 1. Conduct Disorders 2. Adjustment Disorders 3. Eating Disorders 4. Substance Abuse 5. Depression and Anxiety Disorder |
| Retirement -When Individuals are unable to successfully grieve for this part of their lives, it can result in: | this part of their lives, it can result in: Depression Suicidal Ideation- 16% of white male over the age of 80 experience suicidal ideation after they experience a loss 85% individuals over the age of 65 has at least One chronic medical condition |
| The following goals for mental health have been identified: | Early mental health screening, assessment, and referral to services will be common practice Excellent mental health care will be delivered and research will be accelerated Technology will be used to access mental health care and information |
| The types of mental illness among the homeless: | 1. Schizophrenia (MOST COMMON) 2. Bipolar 3. Substance abuse 4. Depression 5. Personality disorder 6. Organic mental disorder (your mind is wrong from the beginning) wired wrong |
| Homeless population *Community resources for the homeless TYPES OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE | Homeless shelters Health care centers and store –front clinics Mobile outreach units |
| 5150 California Law (72 hours hold 3days) Things to proof | *Danger to Self *Danger to Others *Gravely disable 1. Cannot provide shelter to Self 2. Cannot provide clothing to Self 3. Cannot provide food to self |
| I) Characteristics of an institution: | Encompass the total life of its members (i.e. set schedule) b) Members are isolated from outside world c) Breakdown the barriers or ordinary spheres (sleep, work, and eat inside) d) All aspects of life take place under the same authority (i.e. CDCR) |
| II) Role De-possession | a) All prison members are treated alike and required to do the same b) We strip the prisoners of their rights c) Every activity is carried out in the company of others d) Prisoners are no longer in control have to make requests for personal items and |
| III) Curtail of member’s self: | a) Territorial boundaries of self is violated (shared thoughts and feelings) b) Physical boundaries are intended upon (searches) c) Prisoners experience interpersonal contamination (forced relation) d) Social Contaminated (Mixed age, ethnic, cultura |
| IV) Binary Character | a) Control prisoners (Do as they’ve told) b) Excluded from decisions making (their own fate) c) Social distance in prison is very formal (out of bounds) d) Prisoners seen as untroworthy (seen as bitter and angry) e) Staff seen as mean and heavy ha |
| V) Personal Adaptation | a) Colonization b) Challenges institution (Challenge staff) c) Plan it cool |
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