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What is Psychiatry? Psychiatry is medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and management of psychiatric disorders and enhancing normal human behavior. Who is a psychiatrist? A psychiatrist is a medical doctor with additional experience and knowledge of psychiatric disorders and normal human behavior. If you know what is normal, then you can diagnose and manage abnormal medical conditions. What are psychiatric disorders? Pysciatric disorders include threatening behavior; violent behavior; psychotic disorder; infancy, childhood, and adolescence mental health or behavior disorders; cognitive disorders, substance-related disorders; mood disorders; anxiety disorders; somatoform disorders; fictitious disorders; dissociative disorders, sexual and gender identity disorders; eating disorders; sleep disorders; impulse control disorders; adjustment disorders; personality disorders; and abuse and neglect medical conditions. What isn't a psychiatric disorder? What isn't a psychiatric disorder still may need psychiatric consultation. What will a normal person do if subjected to harmful conditions? This isn't a psychiatric disorder, but needs psychiatric consultation. What will happen if you don't diagnose and manage a psychiatric emergency correctly? Possibilities include homicides, suicides, assaults, harassments, harm to self, harm to others, disability, escalation of conflict and disputes, decreased productivity, and other harms. Can a case be a psychiatric and legal emergency at the same time? Yes. What will happen if you diagnose a psychiatric emergency incorrectly? The person diagnosed incorrectly could suffer emotional distress Or other harms. What factors influence adherence to medical doctors� or psychiatrists� recommendations? Confidence in the experience and knowledge of the medical doctors or psychiatrists. Confidence that the diagnosis is correct. Confidence in the standard of treatment as per preventive and curative concepts of medicine. Compliance with environmental factors. What factors influence the best outcome of medical doctors� or psychiatrists� recommendations? Correct diagnosis. Recommendations as per international standards and recent advances regarding preventive and curative concepts of medicine. Compliance with environmental factors. What should you monitor in a psychiatric hospital? Behavior, vitals, character. How should you monitor a psychiatric hospital? Let's examine this. Threat to self, threat to others, harmful to self, harmful to others, assault on self, assault on others, not taking care of self, not taking care of others who have accepted the duty and responsibility. Vitals, character evaluation, behavior in various settings. What is threatening behavior? Words or gestures that create a reasonable fear of harm or injury. Words or gestures that cause emotional distress. Direct or indirect threats of harm or injury. Prolonged or frequent shouting that creates a reasonable fear of harm or injury. What is violent behavior? Violent behavior is defined as the use of physical force or violence to inflict harm on others, to endanger the health or safety of another person or property, or restrict the freedom of action or movement of another person. These include slapping, punching, striking, pushing, or otherwise physically attacking a person; unwelcome physical contact; throwing, punching, or otherwise handling objects in an aggressive manner; or stalking an individual. Examples of actions that will be taken when an employee has been found to have violated this policy include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Mandatory participation in counseling. 2. Corrective/disciplinary action up to and including termination. 3. Arrest and criminal prosecution. 4. Special procedures such as job relocation or initiation of a court order may be implemented. If, upon investigation, it is determined that a report was falsified or made maliciously, the employee who provided the false information will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination, as well as possible arrest and criminal prosecution. What are some psychotic disorders? Schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, brief psychotic disorder. What characteristics are associated with psychotic disorder? Characteristics associated with psychotic disorders include delusion, hallucination, bizarre behavior, incoherent or disorganized speech, and/or disorganized behavior. What are delusions? Delusions are described as false, inaccurate beliefs a person holds onto even when he/she is presented with accurate information. What are hallucinations? Hallucinations are internal sensory perceptions, such as sights or sounds, which are not actually present. What isn't a psychotic disorder? A person is documented with fresh torture marks in 2006, after having been beaten. Is it persecutory ideation, psychotic disorder, or real torture? What is the correct answer? Real torture. What isn't delusion? How many Muslims are in the world? Do all Muslims have delusions? How many agree the elections in 2009 were a fraud? Do all of them have delusions? No. This isn't a delusion. What are infancy, childhood, and adolescence mental health or behavior disorders? Learning disorders Communication disorders Motor skills disorders Pervasive developmental disorders Attention deficit and disruptive behavior disorders Feeding and eating disorders of infancy or early childhood Tic disorders Elimination disorders Mental retardation
What is mental retardation? How many people are affected by mental retardation? How could this be prevented? Encourage children to build their speech skills every day. Encourage children to communicate as much as possible. Encourage children to exercise daily. Teach children social skills every day. Select a language for children that is universally in use, for example the English language. What are cognitive disorders? Delirium Dementia Amnesia Other cognitive disorders What substances cause substance-related disorders? Alcohol Amphetamines Caffeine Cannabis Cocaine Hallucinogens Inhalants Nicotine Opoids Phencyclidine What are sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic-related disorders? Polysubstance-related disorder? What are mood disorders? Major depressive disorder Dysthymic disorder Bipolar disorders, including hypomanic, mixed, and depressed. What are anxiety disorders? Panic attack Phobias Obsessive-compulsive disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder Acute stress disorder Generalized anxiety disorder What are some somatoform disorders? Somatization disorder Conversion disorder Pain disorder Hypochondriasis What are fictitious disorders? Fictitious disorder with mostly psychological symptoms Fictitious disorder with mostly physical symptoms Fictitious disorder with both psychological and physical symptoms Fictitious disorder not otherwise specified What are some dissociative disorders? Dissociative amnesia Dissociative identity disorder Dissociative fugue Depersonalization disorder |