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Which level of prevention?
Stop mental disorders from ever occurring |
Primary Prevention
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Which level of prevention?
Reduce identified cases of psychiatric disorders and disabilities within a population |
Primary Prevention
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Which level of prevention?
Focuses on interventions that ID mental health problems early and reduce the duration & prevalence of mental health. |
Secondary prevention
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Which level of prevention?
Focuses on rehabilitation & ways to minimize residual effects for people who have encountered mental health problems |
Tertiary
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Health Promotion |
Aims to ensure the continued well-being of people or communities already considered healthy
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Disease prevention |
Focuses on protecting against any potentially harmful threat
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This is an example of which level of prevention?
Conducting screening surveys that focus on IDing mental illness in people within schools or the community |
Secondary Prevention
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This is an example of which level of prevention?
Referring pt for mental health tx |
Secondary Prevention
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This is an example of which level of prevention?
Providing crisis intervention to a community that has encountered a natural or man-made disater |
Secondary Prevention
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This is an example of which level of prevention?
Conducting depression screenings |
Secondary Prevention
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This is an example of which level of prevention?
Social skills training |
Tertiary Prevention
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This is an example of which level of prevention?
Vocational rehabilitation |
Tertiary Prevention
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This is an example of which level of prevention?
Self-help groups |
Tertiary Prevention
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This is an example of which level of prevention?
Systems of care & wraparound for children & families |
Tertiary Prevention
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This is an example of which level of prevention?
Sufficient residential & independent living services |
Tertiary Prevention
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What services are provided by Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)?
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-Pscychopharmacology
-Individual supportive therapy -Mobile crisis intervention -Hospitalization -Substance abuse tx -Rehabilitation -Support service |
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What are some factors contributing to growing forensic population?
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-More drug-related activity
-Rising interpersonal and urban violence -Anticrime and antidrug legislation -Poor economic conditions & associated homelessness -The "criminalization of the mentally ill" |
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What are 2 approaches to prevent incarceration of the mentally ill?
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-Forensic Assertive Community Treatment
-Sequential Intercept Model |
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What are the characteristics of forensic patients?
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-They demonstrate poor judgment
-They have limited reasoning -They have a hx of not learning from mistakes -They report an exceptionally high level of substance abuse at the time of arrest |
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What is the forensic population?
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-Suspects and convicts
-sentenced or unsentenced -not guilty by reason of insanity -Incompetent to stand trial -Not criminally responsible b/c of mental disorder |
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What are the 3 types of violence found in prison populations?
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-Expressive violence
-Instrumental Violence -Gang Violence |
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Expressive Violence |
-Involves interpersonal altercations
-Usually with people known to the assailant -Of similar age, ethnicity and cultural background as assailant |
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Instrumental Violence |
-Involves premedicated, motive-driven acts (frequently for economic gain)
-Perpetrator and victim are usually unknown to each other |
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Gang Violence |
Associated with group alliances and committed for retaliation or revenge
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What are the dual obligations of the Forensic Psychiatric Nurse?
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Custody & Caring
(social necessity & social good) |