Exam 4: NSG221/ NSG 221 (NEW 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health | Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct- Herzing

Exam 4: NSG221/ NSG 221 (NEW 2024/ 2025 Update) Mental Health | Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct- Herzing QUESTION OCD Treatment Group or behavioral Therapy Clomipramine or Fluoxetine for obsessions, anxiety, and depression QUESTION Personality Disorder Definition Answer: Personality disorders are diagnosed when there is impairment of personality functioning and personality traits that are maladaptive. Individuals have identity problems such as egocentrism, or being self-centered, and their sense of self-esteem comes from gaining power or pleasure that is often at the expense of others. Their behavior often fails to conform to cultural, social, or legal norms, and they are motivated by personal gratification. Relationships with others are dysfunctional and often characterized by deceit, coercion, or intimidation by the individual with a personality disorder. They are not capable of mutual, intimate relationships and lack the capacity for empathy, remorse, or concern for others QUESTION Maladaptive or Dysfunctional Traits Associated with Personality Disorders Answer: Negative behaviors toward others, such as being manipulative, dishonest, deceitful, or lying Anger and/or hostility Irritable, labile moods Lack of guilt or remorse, emotionally cold and uncaring Impulsivity, distractibility, poor judgment Irresponsible, not accountable for own actions Risk-taking, thrill-seeking behaviors Mistrust Exhibitionism Entitlement Dependency, insecurity Eccentric perceptions QUESTION Cause/Etiology of Personality Disorders Answer: In summary, personality develops in response to inherited dispositions (temperament) and environmental influences (character), which are experiences unique to each person. Personality disorders result when the combination of temperament and character development produces maladaptive, inflexible ways of viewing self, coping with the world, and relating to others QUESTION Schizophreniform Disorder: Answer: The client exhibits an acute, reactive psychosis for less than the 6 months necessary to meet the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. If symptoms persist over 6 months, the diagnosis is changed to schizophrenia. Social or occupational functioning may or may not be impaired. QUESTION Catatonia: Answer: Catatonia is characterized by marked psychomotor disturbance, either excessive motor activity or virtual immobility and motionlessness. Motor immobility may include catalepsy (waxy flexibility) or stupor. Excessive motor activity is apparently purposeless and not influenced by external stimuli. Other behaviors include extreme negativism, mutism, peculiar movements, echolalia, or echopraxia. Catatonia can occur with schizophrenia, mood disorders, or other psychotic disorders. QUESTION Delusional Disorder: Answer: The client has one or more nonbizarre delusions—that is, the focus of the delusion is believable. The delusion may be persecutory, erotomanic, grandiose, jealous, or somatic in content. Psychosocial functioning is not markedly impaired, and behavior is not obviously odd or bizarre. QUESTION Brief Psychotic Disorder: The client experiences the sudden onset of at least one psychotic symptom, such as delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior, which lasts from 1 day to 1 month. The episode may or may not have an identifiable stressor or may follow childbirth. QUESTION Shared Psychot