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Which level of prevention?

Stop mental disorders from ever occurring
Primary Prevention
Which level of prevention?

Reduce identified cases of psychiatric disorders and disabilities within a population
Primary Prevention
Which level of prevention?

Focuses on interventions that ID mental health problems early and reduce the duration & prevalence of mental health.
Secondary prevention
Which level of prevention?

Focuses on rehabilitation & ways to minimize residual effects for people who have encountered mental health problems
Tertiary
DEF
Health Promotion
Aims to ensure the continued well-being of people or communities already considered healthy
DEF
Disease prevention
Focuses on protecting against any potentially harmful threat
This is an example of which level of prevention?

Conducting screening surveys that focus on IDing mental illness in people within schools or the community
Secondary Prevention
This is an example of which level of prevention?

Referring pt for mental health tx
Secondary Prevention
This is an example of which level of prevention?

Providing crisis intervention to a community that has encountered a natural or man-made disater
Secondary Prevention
This is an example of which level of prevention?

Conducting depression screenings
Secondary Prevention
This is an example of which level of prevention?

Social skills training
Tertiary Prevention
This is an example of which level of prevention?

Vocational rehabilitation
Tertiary Prevention
This is an example of which level of prevention?

Self-help groups
Tertiary Prevention
This is an example of which level of prevention?

Systems of care & wraparound for children & families
Tertiary Prevention
This is an example of which level of prevention?

Sufficient residential & independent living services
Tertiary Prevention
What services are provided by Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)?
-Pscychopharmacology
-Individual supportive therapy
-Mobile crisis intervention
-Hospitalization
-Substance abuse tx
-Rehabilitation
-Support service
What are some factors contributing to growing forensic population?
-More drug-related activity
-Rising interpersonal and urban violence
-Anticrime and antidrug legislation
-Poor economic conditions & associated homelessness
-The "criminalization of the mentally ill"
What are 2 approaches to prevent incarceration of the mentally ill?
-Forensic Assertive Community Treatment
-Sequential Intercept Model
What are the characteristics of forensic patients?
-They demonstrate poor judgment
-They have limited reasoning
-They have a hx of not learning from mistakes
-They report an exceptionally high level of substance abuse at the time of arrest
What is the forensic population?
-Suspects and convicts
-sentenced or unsentenced
-not guilty by reason of insanity
-Incompetent to stand trial
-Not criminally responsible b/c of mental disorder
What are the 3 types of violence found in prison populations?
-Expressive violence
-Instrumental Violence
-Gang Violence
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Expressive Violence
-Involves interpersonal altercations
-Usually with people known to the assailant
-Of similar age, ethnicity and cultural background as assailant
DEF
Instrumental Violence
-Involves premedicated, motive-driven acts (frequently for economic gain)
-Perpetrator and victim are usually unknown to each other
DEF
Gang Violence
Associated with group alliances and committed for retaliation or revenge
What are the dual obligations of the Forensic Psychiatric Nurse?
Custody & Caring
(social necessity & social good)