Chapter 1 Mental Health and Mental Illness

Question 1

Mental health

Answer 1

the successful adaptation to life’s stressors evidenced by behaviors that are age appropriate and congruent with the culture

Question 2

Mental illness

Answer 2

maladaptive responses to stressors

Question 3

Fight or flight syndrome

Answer 3

hypothalamus stimulates sympathetic nervous system

Question 4

Sustained response

Answer 4

hypothalamus stimulates pituitary gland to release hormones

Question 5

anxiety

Answer 5

vague apprehension with feelings of uncertainty and helplessness

Question 6

Grief

Answer 6

state of emotional, physical and social response to loss of a valued entity

Question 7

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Answer 7

Physiological needs
safety and security
love and belonging 
self esteem
self actualization

Question 8

Horwitz model components

Answer 8

Incomprehensibility

Cultural relativity

Question 9

Incomprehensibility

Answer 9

inability of general population to understand the motivation behind and individual’s behavior

Question 10

Cultural relativity

Answer 10

behaviors are characterized as “normal” or “abnormal” according to one’s culture or societal norms

Question 11

General Adaptation Syndrome

Answer 11

general reaction of the body to stress

Question 12

General Adaptation Syndrome stages

Answer 12

Alarm reaction
resistance
exhaustion

Question 13

Alarm reaction stage

Answer 13

physiological responses of fight or flight initiated

Question 14

Stage of resistance

Answer 14

physiological responses of first stage used as a defense in attempt to adapt to stressor. If adaptation occurs 3rd stage is prevented or delayed`

Question 15

Stage of exhaustion

Answer 15

body adjusts to prolonged exposure to stressor, adaptive energy is depleted = diseases of adaptation

Question 16

Paplau’s 4 levels of anxiety

Answer 16

Mild
Moderate
Severe
Panic

Question 17

Ego defense/coping mechanisms

Answer 17

Compensation
Denial
Displacement
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Regression
Identification
Intellectualization
Isolation
Projection
Repression
Sublimation
Undoing

Question 18

Compensation

Answer 18

making up for a real or perceived weakness

Question 19

Reaction formation

Answer 19

preventing unacceptable thought or behaviors from being exposed by exaggerating the opposite behavior

Question 20

Identification

Answer 20

attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring attributes of someone you admire

Question 21

Sublimation

Answer 21

re-channeling unacceptable drives into constructive ones (a mother whose son was killed by a drunk driver becomes president of MADD)

Question 22

Undoing

Answer 22

symbolically negating an experience that is intolerable

Question 23

Kubler-Ross 5 stages of grief

Answer 23

denial
anger
bargaining
Depression 
acceptance

Question 24

Maladaptive grief responses

Answer 24

Prolonged response
Delayed.inhibited response
Distorted response