Exam 26: Cognitive Impairments

Supporting a client with a personality disorder includes:

Mood disorders are characterized by:

Anorexia nervosa is characterised as a mental illness associated with binge eating.

Cognitive disorders are disorders in which physical impairment is the central symptom.

A hallucination is a fixed,false belief despite contradictory evidence and logic.

In your textbook,mental illness is described as changes in thinking,mood,or behaviour resulting in significant distress,suffering,and impairment of function.

With respect to eating disorders:

The goal of cognitive behaviour therapy is to help clients identify the thoughts and thought patterns that make them anxious.

With respect to suicide:

Mental health is defined as:

A strategy for assisting clients with social anxiety disorder may include:

Social anxiety disorder is also known as social phobia.

Psychosis an acute condition causing people to lose their sense of reality

Supporting clients with eating disorders includes the following:

When you hear people talking about mental illness,analyze what is said for the following issues:

People with mental illnesses are typically at even greater risk for complications and deteriorating physical and mental health.

Physical signs and symptoms of depression include:

Guidelines to responding to concerns about suicide include:

Treatment of problematic substance use often includes three components:

Research has shown that mental illnesses are influenced by changes in the neurotransmitters in the brain.