Mental health and illness

Question 1

6 indicators that reflect mental health

Answer 1

1. Positive attitude towards self
2. Growth, development, and ability to achieve self-actualization
3. Integration
4. Autonomy
5. Perception of reality
6. Environmental mastery

Question 2

debilitating thing with a disruption in functioning

Answer 2

mental illness

Question 3

Successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are age-appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms

Answer 3

mental health

Question 4

2 major responses of psychological adaptation to stress

Answer 4

anxiety and grief

Question 5

primitive beliefs of mental disturbance

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Dispossessed of soul
Evil spirits, supernatural, magical powers
Broken a taboo or sinned

Question 6

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs bottom to top

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physiological needs
safety and security
love and belonging
self-esteem
self-actualization

Question 7

unable to understand behavior

Answer 7

incomprehensibility

Question 8

what is expected by society

Answer 8

cultural relativity/normality

Question 9

characteristics of mental illness from the transactional model of stress and adaption

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Maladaptive responses to stressors
Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Incongruent with the local and cultural norms
Interfere with functioning

Question 10

Diffuse and vague apprehension
Feelings of uncertainty and helplessness

Answer 10

anxiety

Question 11

needed at a low level to maintain survival

Answer 11

anxiety

Question 12

peplau’s levels of anxiety

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mild, moderate, severe, and panic anxiety

Question 13

seldom a problem - needed to survive

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mild anxiety

Question 14

perceptual field begins to diminish - less reactive to environment

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moderate anxiety

Question 15

perceptual field diminishes greatly - attention span - physical symptoms - N/V/D

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severe anxiety

Question 16

the most intense state - attacks - life feels threatened

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panic anxiety

Question 17

behavioral responses to mild anxiety

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coping behaviors that satisfy needs for comfort

Question 18

behavioral responses to moderate anxiety

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ego as reality component of personality

Question 19

our ideal of who we want to be - partially aware

Answer 19

superego

Question 20

balancing between superego and ID - partially aware

Answer 20

ego

Question 21

primal urges - things we have to restrain - not aware

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ID

Question 22

Emphasizing more desirable trait – boy is not good at soccer so becomes a scholar

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compensation

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Not acknowledging existence of real situation/feelings – alcoholic not accepting diagnosis

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denial

Question 24

Transfer of feelings to less threatening target – takes anger on family member out on the nurse

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displacement

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Acquiring admirable attributes of another person – person with lengthy rehabilitation process from accident becomes PT

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identification

Question 26

Using logic, reasoning, and analysis to avoid emotion – has anxiety about explaining a move to her family

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intellectualization

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Integrating beliefs/values of another individual – children integrate values from their parents to other people

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introjection

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Separating thought/memory from emotion

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isolation

Question 29

Attributing unacceptable feelings to another person

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projection

Question 30

Formulating reasons to justify unacceptable feelings – I drink because of my terrible job

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rationalization

Question 31

Exaggerating OPPOSITE thoughts/behaviors – hates nursing but explains all the benefits

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reaction formation

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Retreating to earlier level of development/comfort – when younger sibling is born the older sibling is suddenly wetting the bed again

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regression

Question 33

INVOLUNTARILY blocking unpleasant feelings – accident cannot remember the what happened

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repression

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Rechanneling unacceptable drives into constructive activities - a mother whose son was killed by a drunk driver channels her anger into being president of Mothers against Drunk Driving

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sublimation

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VOLUNTARILY blocking unpleasant feelings – ”I will think about this tmrw”

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suppression

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Symbolically negating intolerable experience – compensating for negative behaviors

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undoing

Question 37

measurable pathophys possible

Answer 37

moderate to severe anxiety

Question 38

Extended periods can result in psychoneurotic behaviors Neurosis

Answer 38

severe anxiety

Question 39

Psychiatric disturbances with excessive anxiety Expressed through defense mechanisms

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neurosis

Question 40

manifestations of neurosis

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obsession compulsion phobia sexual dysfunction

Question 41

psychoneurotic anxiety responses to anxiety

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anxiety disorders somatic symptom disorders dissociative disorders

Question 42

behavioral responses to panic anxiety

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Extreme level Not able to process what is happening in environment May lose contact with reality Psychosis possible

Question 43

Emotional, physical, and social responses to the loss of a valued entity

Answer 43

grief

Question 44

stages of grief

Answer 44

1. denial 2. anger 3. bargaining 4. depression 5. acceptance

Question 45

characteristics of mourning

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Sadness, guilt, anger, helplessness, hopelessness, and despair

Question 46

loss that is anticipated and work on grieving early

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anticipatory grief

Question 47

losing multiple things at once

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bereavement overload

Question 48

end goal of grief when able to function

Answer 48

resolution

Question 49

Intense preoccupation with memories of lost entity

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prolonged

Question 50

denial - stuck - cannot achieve tasks

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delayed or inhibited

Question 51

distorted pathological grief response

Answer 51

anger sets in