Who is at highest risk of suicide? correct answer: White, elderly men
Schizophrenia
Single, never married, divorced, recently widowed
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Adolescents with depression, bullied, or family hx of suicide
Who is most likely to succeed at committing suicide? correct answer: Older while males
What are some protective factors for suicide? correct answer: Having children
Religion
Stronger alliances with medical providers and therapists
What is lethality? correct answer: the probability that a person will successfully complete suicide
What is intent? correct answer: Effective expectations for desire of active death
What is a suicide attempt? correct answer: Includes all willful, self-inflicted life-threatening attempts that have not led to death
What is suicidal ideation? correct answer: thinking about suicide, usually with some serious emotional and intellectual or cognitive overtones
Where in the brain do we theorize violence and aggression originate? correct answer: Prefrontal cortex
How to assess for homicidal ideation? correct answer: Do you have homicidal ideation? Who do you want to kill? How do you plan to do this? Do you have access to the means necessary? Do you intend to commit the act?
What legal follow up is needed for homicidal ideation? correct answer: Duty to warn
Based on state laws
Obsession correct answer: 1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress
2. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action (i.e. by performing a compulsion)
Compulsion correct answer: 1. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly
2. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation, however, these behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent, or are clearly excessive
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) correct answer: A. Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both
B. The obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming (e.g. take more than one hour per day) or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning
C. The obsessive-compulsive symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition
D. The disturbance is not better explained by the symptoms of another mental disorder
PANDAS correct answer: Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections
OCD common co-morbid conditions correct answer: MDD (Major depressive disorder)
Skin Picking
Hair Pulling
Most Common Compulsions correct answer: Checking
Ordering
Arranging
Washing/cleaning
Hand-washing
Flipping lights
Counting
Differentiation between OCD and eating disorders correct answer: Those with eating disorders will be counting calories, focused on weight loss or maintaining a specific weight [Show Less]