Psychiatric Nursing Townsend Chapter 32

Front 1

What is an inability to recall important person information, usually of a traumatic nature, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness and is not due to the direct effects of substance use or a neurological or other general medical condition?

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Dissociative amnesia

Front 2

What is the inability to recall all incidents associated with the traumatic event for a specific time period following the event (usually a few hours to a few days)?

Back 2

Localized amnesia

Front 3

What is the inability to recall only certain incidents associated with a traumatic event for a specific period after the event?

Back 3

Selective Amnesia

Front 4

What is the rare phenomenon of not being able to recall anything that has happened during the individual’s entire lifetime, including his or her own identity?

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Generalized Amnesia

Front 5

With this type of amnesia, the individual cannot remember events that related to a specific category of information (e.g., one’s family) or to one particular person or event.

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Systemized Amnesia

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Example: The indificual caonnot recall evenets of the automobile accident and events occuring during a period after the accident (a few hours to a few days)

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Localized Amnesia

Front 7

The individual may not remember events leading to the impact of the accident but may remember being taken away in the ambulance

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Selective Amnesia

Front 8

The individual cannot remember events associated with the automobile accident and anything that has occured since. That is, the individualcannot form new memories even though apparently alert and aware

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Continous Amnesia

Front 9

True or False: The individual w/ amnesia usually appears alert.

Back 9

True: although at the onset of the episode there may bea brief period of disorganization or clouding of consciousness.

Front 10

True or false: Termination usally takes time and a complete recovery is not possible.

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False: Termination is typically abrupt and followed by complete recovery.

Front 11

The characteristic feature of what is a sudden, unexpected travel away from home or customary place of daily activities, with inability to recall some of all of one’s past?

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Dissociatve fugue

Front 12

True or false: An individual in a fugue state cannot recall personal identity and often assumes a new identify.

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True

Front 13

True or false: severe psychological stress or excessive alcohol use precipaitated the fuge behavior.

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True

Front 14

This disorder is characterized by the existence or two or more personalities in a single individual.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DIC)

Front 15

List the four types of causative factors associated with a prediposition to DID.

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1. Having a experienced a traumatic life event, most often in childhood.
2. Possessing a vulnerability for the disorder to develop (either biological or psychological)
3. The existence of formulative enviroment factors (negative role models or the absence of adaptive coping abilites)
4. The absence of external suport from significant others.

Front 16

True or false: hospitalization is normally required for the client diagnosed with DID.

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False - hospitalization of the client with DID usually occurs only in an acute situation (attempted suicide, or an attempt to integrate a personality that the therapits is anticipating may precipitate violence and requires a more structured setting).

Front 17

What disorder is characterized by a temporary change in the quality of self-awareness, which often takes the form of feelings of unreality, changes in body image, feelings of detachment from the environment, or a sense of observing oneself from outside the body?

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Depersonalization disorder

Front 18

This is a disturbance in the perception of oneself

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Depersonalization

Front 19

An alteration in the perception of the external enviroment.

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Derealization

Front 20

True of false: approximately half of all adults experience transeit episodes of depersonalization.

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True

Front 21

In what disorder is a mechanical or dreamlike feeling, or belief that the body's physical characteristics have changed and objects in the enviroment may be perceived as altered in size or shape?

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Deperspnalization Disorder