ch8 Flashcards
What are psychosocial needs?
Needs that involve social interaction, emotions, intellect, and spirituality.
What is holistic care?
A type of care that involves caring for the whole person—the mind as well as the body.
What is masturbation?
To touch or rub sexual organs in order to give oneself or another person sexual pleasure.
What is sexual orientation?
A person’s physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction to another person.
What is gender identity?
A deeply felt sense of one’s gender.
What does bisexual mean?
A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction may be for people of the same gender or different gender.
What is cisgender?
A person whose gender identity matches his or her birth sex.
What does coming out refer to?
A continual process of revealing one’s sexual orientation or gender identity to others.
What is a cross-dresser?
Typically a heterosexual man who sometimes wears clothing and other items associated with women.
What does gay mean?
A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for people of the same sex.
What is heterosexual?
A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for people of the opposite sex; also known as straight.
What is a lesbian?
A woman whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for other women.
What does LGBT stand for?
Acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
What does LGBTQ stand for?
Acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
What does queer mean?
A term used by some people to describe sexual orientation that is not exclusively heterosexual.
What is transgender?
A person whose gender identity conflicts with his or her birth sex.
What is transition in terms of gender?
The process of changing genders, which can include legal procedures, medical measures, telling others, and using new pronouns.
What does spiritual mean?
Of, or relating to, the spirit or soul.
What is reincarnation?
A belief that some part of a living being survives death to be reborn in a new body.
What is karma?
The belief that all past and present deeds affect one’s future and future lives.
What is a yarmulke?
A small skullcap worn by Jewish men as a sign of their faith.
Who are agnostics?
People who believe that they do not know or cannot know if God exists.
Who are atheists?
People who believe that there is no God.
What are dietary restrictions?
Rules about what and when individuals can eat.
What is fasting?
Not eating food or eating very little food.
Who are vegetarians?
People who do not eat meat, fish, or poultry and may or may not eat eggs and dairy products.
Who are vegans?
Vegetarians who do not eat any animal products, including milk, cheese, other dairy items, or eggs.
What does premature refer to?
The term for babies who are born before 37 weeks’ gestation.
What is sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?
A condition in which babies stop breathing and die for no known reason while asleep.
What does cognitive mean?
Related to thinking and learning.
What is chickenpox?
A highly contagious viral illness that affects nearly all children.
What is leukemia?
A form of cancer in which the body’s white blood cells are unable to fight disease.
What is anorexia?
An eating disorder in which a person does not eat or exercises excessively to lose weight.
What is bulimia?
An eating disorder in which a person eats huge amounts of foods or very fattening foods, and then eliminates the food by vomiting, using laxatives, or exercising excessively.
What is trauma?
Severe injury.
What is menopause?
The end of menstruation.
What is geriatrics?
The study of health, wellness, and disease later in life.
What is gerontology?
The study of the aging process in people from mid-life through old age.
What is ageism?
Prejudice toward, stereotyping of, and/or discrimination against older persons or the elderly.
What are developmental disabilities?
Disabilities that are present at birth or emerge during childhood that restrict physical and/or mental ability.
