Exam 1 - Chapter 1 Flashcards
What skills do individuals with good mental health have?
- Ability to recognize own potential
- Cope with normal stress
- Work productively
- Make contribution to community
What are traits of good mental health?
- Think rationally
- Communicate appropriately
- Learn
- Grow emotionally
- Be resilient
- Have a healthy self-esteem
- Realistic goals and reasonable function within individual’s role
Disorders with definable a definable diagnosis are what?
Mental illness
Mental illness includes significant dysfunction in mental functioning related to what?
- Developmental
- Biological
- Physiological disturbances
Is mental illness culturally defined?
Yes
The ability and capacity to secure resources needed to support well-being is called what?
Resilience
What is resilience characterized by?
- Optimism
- Sense of mastery
- Competence
Is resilience essential to recovery?
Yes
Is mental illness versus physical illness just a perception?
Yes (they work together)
What model signifies nature versus nurture theory in relation to mental illness?
Diathesis-stress model
What does diathesis stand for in the diathesis-stress model?
A biological predisposition
What does stress stand for in the diathesis-stress model?
Environmental stress or trauma
What is the most accepted explanation for mental illness?
Diathesis-stress model
What model signifies the the combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors?
Diathesis-stress model
The assertion of what implies that most phychiatric disorders result from a combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors?
Diathesis-stress model
What does the study of distribution or mental disorders identify?
- High-risk groups
- High-risk factors
The number of new cases in a given time is called what?
Incidence
The number of cases regardless of when they began in called what?
Prevalence
The risk that one will develop a disease in the course of a lifetime is called what?
Lifetime risk
Groups treated for specific mental disorders are studied for what?
- Natural history of illness
- Diagnostic screening tests
- Interventions
The results from groups treated for specific mental disorders is used to describe the frequency of what?
- Mental disorders
- Symptoms appearing together
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition?
DSM-V
What is the official medical guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association for diagnosing?
DSM-V
What is based on specific criteria influenced by multiprofessional clinical field traits
DSM-V
What does The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association International (NANDA-I) provide?
Standardized nursing diagnosis
What are sources of standardized outcomes, definitions of these outcomes, and measuring scales?
Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC)
What identifies seven domains of nursing intervention?
Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)
Explain the stigma of Mental Illness
The belief that the overall person is flawed
