What are some treatments modalities for anxiety disorders?

What are some treatments modalities for anxiety disorders? And medical treatments for people with Somatic symptoms and related disorders/medications used in the treatment of anxiety disorders and their side effects?

The correlations between gender and emotion

Do the correlations between gender and emotion hold up in your personal experience?  Give an example that supports or refutes one of the conclusions presented in your textbook.  Remember – often in psychology what we learn tells us a lot about people as a whole, but it can’t tell us everything about an individual.  That’s what case studies are for!

Classical and operant conditioning

Discuss both classical and operant conditioning and why they are so important to the field of lifespan development. Incorporate the text to back up your statements by paraphrasing what you have read.  You must include the book or an article at the end of your discussion as a reference. All discussions must be a minimum of 300 words and your response to another student must be a minimum of 200 words.

Grand theory and conceptual model in nursing

Watson’s Caring Theory, a grand theory and conceptual model in nursing, is the underlying framework for United States University College of Nursing’s programs. Identify a middle-range theory within her conceptual model. Clearly identify how she defines the concepts and propositions between them. Report them to the class using the form “psychosocial development (Concept A) progresses through (Proposition) stages (Concept B)”. Psychosocial development and stages are examples and are NOT required for the assignment. Using the readings for the week, discuss why her work is considered a grand theory.

Explain how the emotional effects of illness

Explain how the emotional effects of illness (as described in chapter 13) may have influenced the mother’s behavior.

As an allied health care provider, explain how you would respond to the mother if she made those comments to you, rather than to her son.

Explain how you would respond to the son while keeping in mind his emotional and esteem needs.

Understandably you may be very upset by many aspects of the illness. This distress may lead to you feeling angry and irritable. You may feel resentful that you or someone you care for is seriously ill while other people are well.

How does illness affect emotional development?
Increased physical symptoms can have a negative effect on a child’s emotional health. Chronic illnesses can interfere with children’s happiness and how they feel about themselves. When children are distressed and unhappy, their illness may be harder to control.

Self-promotion on social media

Describe how these qualities will serve you in your future career. How will they make you, as a brand, stand out from the crowd? How can those skills add value to your brand?

Identify two or three areas (skills or self-promotion on social media or style or perception of power) that you would like to develop to enhance your “personal brand”. Describe some concrete steps that you could take to achieve this. Be sure to explain why this development will be important for your future career success.

Delusional thinking of a grandiose nature

Mr. Joshua is a 55-year-old male with a long history of delusional thinking of a grandiose nature. He was brought to the ED on an emergency petition because he was found by the police to be argumentative with the salesman of a car dealership over the topic of buying a new car. This client proclaimed angrily that he had a special relationship with a movie star that he claimed sent him there to purchase a new BMW 2021, SUV. When the dealer called for a financial background check, the client’s credit score was below 200. It was determined upon investigation that this client is homeless and unemployed. He has been sleeping in a nylon tent sitting on the sidewalk over a subway train vent that provides warm steam. This client was noted as unkept with his hair and body. He also had a foul odor coming from his clothing which was dirty and he wore in 4 layers. This client became extremely angry with the salesman that told him that he did not meet the criteria through the credit bureau to be able to purchase a car.  Joshua also could not provide an address for the salesman except for the corner of Light and Holliday Street. He was noted invading the personal space of the sales manager that asked that he him leave his car dealership.   This client was hyperverbal with rapid pressured speech. He was constantly in motion noted swinging his arms and hands in the air as he spoke.

The policeman said that this client seemed to require medication to slow himself down and decrease his threatening behavior towards others. He was allowed to use the phone at the dealership to call the famous movie star he claimed to know personally to verify to sales that he would help Joshua pay for the BMW.  This client is angry in affect and laughs loudly at times. Joshua is labile in mood with elation at times. He has purchased a color television from a local store but cannot pick it up because he has no place to plug it up and watch it.   This client has an angry affect at times and mood swings. Has been unemployed for 1 year.

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Has been sleeping on the sidewalk over a ventilator vent from the subway in a tent downtown. He is disheveled, wearing layers of clothing for the past 2 years. He eats his meals at a soup kitchen. He has family but claims that he cannot stay with them because they say that he is to hyper, loud, not sleeping and has unpredictable periods of anger. This client reports that the children of his family are frightened to be around him. Joshua reports not taking his drugs or seeking treatment for 3-4 months due to his complaints of the side-effects of the drugs prescribed.     He complains of the drugs cause him to have sexual problems and weight gain. This client has been living on the sidewalk or under a bridge. This client is pacing rapidly around the store . He was asked not to keep going into the store asking people for money and becoming angry when they did not give any to him. Joshua was seen in the Ed due to his aggressiveness, hyperactivity, and paranoid grandiose ideations  and was involuntarily  admitted to the inpatient behavioral health unit. Upon admission to the floor this client proceeded to hit the technician and was administered Haldol 10 mg. IM. The client agreed to stay in his room for an hour to let the medication help to decrease his agitation and anxiety.   After an hour, this client was at the nurses’ station complaining of thickness of his tongue, some drooling, and his eyes were going up in his head. The client was unable to make the eyes to stay own. All that could be seen was the whites of his eyes .   He was certified by the ED doctors after medical clearance. Joshua was given the diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, Mania

Instructions:

1.     Identify what the client is experiencing.

2.     Define what was going on with his eyes and his tongue.

3.     What causes reactions like that?

4.     Use the SBAR format to provide a report to the Nurse Practitioner on duty.

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5.    What medication might be ordered for this client?

6.    Would this client need to receive medication in po. or IM. form?

7.    What might this client’s psychiatric diagnosis be?

8.    Might this client be described as neurotic or psychotic, explain!

9.    Provide a Nursing Diagnosis?

10. What kind side effects is this client experiencing.   Name and define the classification of the drugs that

would be given (refer to Chapter 4 of Townsend and Morgan 10th. Edition.

Please fill in the Axis according to the DSM 5

Axis I_________________________________

Axis II ________________________________

Axis III ________________________________

Axis IV ________________________________

Axis V ________________________________

>>>Use a SBAR form to document what you would report to the oncoming RN about this client’s experience the shift.

 

Understanding of the complex makeup of an emotion

In considering what we learned about emotions (appraisals, physiological changes, expressions, subjective experiences, and action tendencies) – how would one go about increasing the likelihood of experiencing happiness? Be thorough in your response and demonstrate an understanding of the complex makeup of an emotion

Describe the specific mechanisms of enzyme function

Briefly outline the cycle by which energy is stored in and released from ATP. Discuss how ATP is critically important to cellular chemical processes. Describe the specific mechanisms of enzyme function. Pick a specific enzyme and describe its function and the importance of that function to life. Discuss how the loss of that enzyme would disrupt living processes.

The heterozygous genotype for sickle-cell anemia

The heterozygous genotype for sickle-cell anemia has little survival value for North American blacks because ( 1) the sickle-cell allele is being transmitted to the non-black population. 2) immunization programs have nearly eliminated this disease. 3) malaria is uncommon in North America