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Mental health and illness Flashcards

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6 indicators that reflect mental health

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  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
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debilitating thing with a disruption in functioning

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mental illness

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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

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mental health

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2 major responses of psychological adaptation to stress

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anxiety and grief

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primitive beliefs of mental disturbance

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

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs bottom to top

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

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unable to understand behavior

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incomprehensibility

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what is expected by society

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cultural relativity/normality

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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

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Diffuse and vague apprehension
Feelings of uncertainty and helplessness

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anxiety

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needed at a low level to maintain survival

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anxiety

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peplau’s levels of anxiety

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mild, moderate, severe, and panic anxiety

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seldom a problem - needed to survive

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mild anxiety

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perceptual field begins to diminish - less reactive to environment

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moderate anxiety

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

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severe anxiety

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the most intense state - attacks - life feels threatened

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panic anxiety

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behavioral responses to mild anxiety

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coping behaviors that satisfy needs for comfort

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behavioral responses to moderate anxiety

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ego as reality component of personality

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our ideal of who we want to be - partially aware

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superego

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balancing between superego and ID - partially aware

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ego

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primal urges - things we have to restrain - not aware

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ID

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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

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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

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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

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Attributing unacceptable feelings to another person

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projection

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

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rationalization

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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

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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

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measurable pathophys possible

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moderate to severe anxiety

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Extended periods can result in psychoneurotic behaviors
Neurosis

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severe anxiety

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Psychiatric disturbances with excessive anxiety
Expressed through defense mechanisms

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neurosis

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manifestations of neurosis

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obsession
compulsion
phobia
sexual dysfunction

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psychoneurotic anxiety responses to anxiety

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anxiety disorders
somatic symptom disorders
dissociative disorders

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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

43
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Emotional, physical, and social responses to the loss of a valued entity

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grief

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stages of grief

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  1. denial
  2. anger
  3. bargaining
  4. depression
  5. acceptance
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characteristics of mourning

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

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loss that is anticipated and work on grieving early

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anticipatory grief

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losing multiple things at once

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bereavement overload

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end goal of grief when able to function

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resolution

49
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Intense preoccupation with memories of lost entity

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prolonged

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denial - stuck - cannot achieve tasks

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delayed or inhibited

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distorted pathological grief response

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anger sets in

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