CROSSDIAGNOSIS BEHAVIORS

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CROSS-DIAGNOSIS BEHAVIORS
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HALLUCINATIONS

• AUDITORY
• VISUAL
• OLFACTORY
• GUSTATORY
• TACTILE
• KINESTHETIC
• COMMAND

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INTERVENTIONS

• STAY WITH CLIENT!!!!!!!
• Talk to client (maybe loudly)
• Find environmental triggers
• Encourage client to describe
• Teach client self-help strategies

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DELUSIONS

• Grandiosity
• Delusions of control
• Erotomanic delusions
• Somatic delusions
• Ideas of reference
• Thought broadcasting
• Thought withdrawal
• Thought insertion
• Religious delusions
• Delusions of persecution

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INTERVENTIONS

• Discuss delusions
• Reassurance of safety
• Monitor for harm
• Present reality gently
• Identify triggers
• Teach coping techniques

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SELF-MUTILATION

• Females most common
• Childhood sexual abuse
• Borderline personality disorders
• Cognitive impairment disorders
• OCD
• PTSS
• Dissociative identity disorder
• Mental impairment

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INTERVENTIONS

• Trusting relationship
• Nonjudgmental
• Three goals of interventions
• Encourage communication
• Improve quality of life
• Extinguish the use of self-mutilation

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AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR

• Violence may bring relief and client becomes
  addicted
• TriggersPoor frustration toleranceIneffective
  individual copingImpulsivityReal or imagined
  threats
• Previous behavior is best assessment

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INTERVENTIONS

• Teach nonviolent coping strategies
• Behavioral contract
• Calm approach
• Non-authoritarian manner
• Talking down
• Medications
• Quiet room