Mental Health Final Exam Rasmussen University
2024
1. Adolescence suicidal behavior: Males are more likely to use a lethal
method
2. Anxiety levels: Mild, moderate, severe and panic
3. Mild: is positive, healthy.
4. Severe: hypervigilant, cannot focus, sleep.
5. Panic: physical symptoms, can't breathe, chest pain, decline in
function. Auto- nomic nervous system
6. Conversion Disorder: trauma and stressors throughout your life. You
keep not listening to your symptoms and your panic, anxiety and fear
makes your body shut down. You stop walking, having seizures but
there is no medical reason.
,7. GAD: being worried, fearful and can't control it for 6mo, more days of
anxiety than not. Insomnia, irritability
8. Acute Stress Disorder: per the DSM-5, lasts 0-30 days. Example:
divorce, lost employment
9. PTSD: night terrors, constantly thinking about the event, won't go
to the area where the event happened. Starting at day 31
10.ASD vs PTSD: less than 30 days is ASD. Trauma hasn't been resolved
is PTSD at 31+ days
11.Anorexia: ask during the interview what kind of upbringing they
had. Usually very strict and overbearing parents.
The person is a "perfectionist". Person would like very put together:
hair done; make-up done. They need to be in charge
12.Bulimia: they start to get better when they start to talk about their
feelings.
, 13.OCD: DSM-5: impairs daily living.
14.Group therapy: provide feedback, patients learn from each other
15.Family therapy: support system, education.
16.Therapy for Narcissistic/escalation: Milleu therapy - Call for backup,
keep everyone safe
17.Behaviors and emotions therapy: Behavior is treated w/ behavioral
therapy. Emotions is treated w/ cognitive therapy.
Emotions & behavior: treated w/ both
18.Personality Disorders: use behavioral therapy. Setting up the rules,
boundaries and stick to it.
19.Opposite Defiant Disorder: set up positive consequences
20.Systematic Desensitization therapy (aversion therapy): expose the
person to their fear little by little
21.Borderline Personality Disorder: symptoms: fear of being along,
abandon- ment.
2024
1. Adolescence suicidal behavior: Males are more likely to use a lethal
method
2. Anxiety levels: Mild, moderate, severe and panic
3. Mild: is positive, healthy.
4. Severe: hypervigilant, cannot focus, sleep.
5. Panic: physical symptoms, can't breathe, chest pain, decline in
function. Auto- nomic nervous system
6. Conversion Disorder: trauma and stressors throughout your life. You
keep not listening to your symptoms and your panic, anxiety and fear
makes your body shut down. You stop walking, having seizures but
there is no medical reason.
,7. GAD: being worried, fearful and can't control it for 6mo, more days of
anxiety than not. Insomnia, irritability
8. Acute Stress Disorder: per the DSM-5, lasts 0-30 days. Example:
divorce, lost employment
9. PTSD: night terrors, constantly thinking about the event, won't go
to the area where the event happened. Starting at day 31
10.ASD vs PTSD: less than 30 days is ASD. Trauma hasn't been resolved
is PTSD at 31+ days
11.Anorexia: ask during the interview what kind of upbringing they
had. Usually very strict and overbearing parents.
The person is a "perfectionist". Person would like very put together:
hair done; make-up done. They need to be in charge
12.Bulimia: they start to get better when they start to talk about their
feelings.
, 13.OCD: DSM-5: impairs daily living.
14.Group therapy: provide feedback, patients learn from each other
15.Family therapy: support system, education.
16.Therapy for Narcissistic/escalation: Milleu therapy - Call for backup,
keep everyone safe
17.Behaviors and emotions therapy: Behavior is treated w/ behavioral
therapy. Emotions is treated w/ cognitive therapy.
Emotions & behavior: treated w/ both
18.Personality Disorders: use behavioral therapy. Setting up the rules,
boundaries and stick to it.
19.Opposite Defiant Disorder: set up positive consequences
20.Systematic Desensitization therapy (aversion therapy): expose the
person to their fear little by little
21.Borderline Personality Disorder: symptoms: fear of being along,
abandon- ment.
