If Exploration Seems to Indicate a Client Has Bipolar Disorder

question 9

Multiple Choice

If exploration seems to indicate a client has bipolar disorder, immediate:​

• A)​analysis of cultural beliefs has to be carried out.
• B)​reality testing has to be conducted.
• C)​psychiatric consultation is needed.
• D)​contact with the law enforcement authorities has to be made.

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Definitions:

Reducing Stressors

The process or practice of identifying, avoiding, or altering stress-inducing factors in one's life to decrease stress levels and improve well-being.

Health Psychology

Any application of psychological methods and theories to understand the origins of disease, individual responses to disease, and the dimensions and determinants of good health.

Tertiary Prevention

A type of prevention practised after suffering or disability from the disease is being experienced, with the goal of preventing further deterioration. See also primary prevention and secondary prevention.

Public Health Approach

An approach to community psychology characterized by the following steps: (1) identifying a disease and developing a reliable diagnostic method (descriptive epidemiology); (2) developing a theory of the disease’s course of development on the basis of laboratory and epidemiological research (analytic epidemiology); and (3) developing and evaluating a disease prevention program (experimental epidemiology). The thrust of the approach is to reduce environmental stressors while enhancing people’s capacities to withstand those stressors.