NRNP 6665 Week 8 Assignment; Study Guide Forum - Pyromania
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Week 8-Pyromania Study Guide Student Name College of Nursing-PMHNP, Walden University NRNP 6665: PMHNP Care Across the Lifespan I Dr. Pamela Mokoko Date: …… Pyromania Impulse control disorder in which people cannot restrain themselves from acting on strong and compelling urges of intense desire to prepare, set, and watch fires (Sadock, Sadock, & Ruiz, 2015). (APA, 2013); (Sadock, Sadock, & Ruiz, 2015) Differential Diagnoses Pyromania Young Children Conduct/Antisocia l Personality Disorder Schizophrenia/Mania Brain Dysfunctions Failure to resist the impulse Fascination with matches, lighters, fire Deliberate act Response to delusions/hallucination s Failure to appreciate the consequences of the act Recurrent, deliberate, purposeful Developmental experimentatio n For-profit, sabotage, or retaliation Voices made them do it Dementia, mental retardation, intoxication (APA, 2013); (Sadock, Sadock, & Ruiz, 2015) Incidence •Can’t help urges or impulses •3.3 % in the criminal system •Male to female ratio 8:1 •40% arrested for arson are under the age of 18 Development and Course •Age of onset unknown •Episodic •Waxes and wanes •No relationship between fire setting in childhood and pyromania in adulthood •Rare in childhood •Associated with conduct disorder, ADHD, and AD Prognosis •Age of onset unknown •If adolescent or adult – fire setting is deliberately destructive •Treated children have a good prognosis •A complete remission in children is realistic •Prognosis for adults is guarded........... Continue
