What are the 3 reform directions for W.A?
- person centred support and services
- connected approaches
- balanced investment
What are the consequences of not providing better care of individuals mental health?
- extended hospital stays
- more frequent admissions and read missions to mental health inpatient units
- increased burden to families, community and individuals
- increased repetition and involvement with justice system
- delays in access to mental health care, alcohol and drug treatment
What is schizophrenia?
A long term mental disorder of a type involving the breakdown in relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawl from reality.
List 4 causes of schizophrenia.
- genetic disposition
- exposure to intrauterine infection
- birth trauma
- head injury in childhood
- communication patterns in the family
- environmental stress
- drug use
List the 3 phases of schizophrenia.
- predromal phase = before symptoms
- active phase =onset of symptoms
- residual phase- lessening of active symptoms
Define recovery
State of moving forward
What are the recovery paradigms?
- hope
- self-determination
- self-management
- empowerment
- advocacy
What are some barriers people may struggle with trying to recover?
- severity of symptoms
- side effects of medication
- current or past trauma and pain
- difficult socioeconomic circumstances
- the experience of using mental health services
- practitioners struggle
List some groups that support the recovery process.
- resources
- support networks = social and cultural
- personal efforts = self-determination
List some symptoms of depression.
- significant weightloss or gain
- insomnia nearly everyday
- psychomotor agitation
- fatigue daily
- feeling worthless or guilty
- can’t concentrate
- thinking about death
- suicidal ideation
What is systemic disorder?
Chronic low grade depression
List the rapid suicide risk assessment conducted by triage staff
- finding the duration of the suicidal ideation
- any hx of previous suicide attempts
- recent help-seeking behaviours
- the existence of a suicide plan
- access to means to complete the plan
List some less common types of dementia
- alcohol induced dementia
- drug related dementia
- head injury dementia
- associated with HIV or Lyme disease
What is dementia?
- disease of the brain
- is chronic or progressive in nature
- impairment of brain functions =memory, language
- behaviour changes
List the stages of dementia
- early stages
- moderate dementia
- advanced dementia
