Nurs 360 Exam 1 Flashcards

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Maladaptive responses

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Negative or unhealthy and occur when the integrity of the individual is disrupted

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Selyes General adaptation syndrome

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Alarm reaction stage (fight or flight) stage of resistance (do what we can to get rid of the stress leading us to adapt), stage of exhaustion

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Precipitating event

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Stimulus arising from the internal or external environment and perceived by the individual in a specific manner

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Primary appraisal

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Judgment about the situation as irrelevant, benign-positive, stress appraisal

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Secondary appraisal

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Assessment of skills, resources and knowledge that the person possesses to deal with the situation

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Cognitive appraisal

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The individuals evaluation of the personal significance of an event or occurrence

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Stress management

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Use of coping strategies in response to stressful situations

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Adaptive coping strategies

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Protect individual from harmonist for a physical and psychological homeostasis (relaxation, meditation)

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Maladaptive coping strategies

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Occurs When the conflict being experienced because unresolved or intensifies (substance abuse, running away from problem, denying situation)

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Mental health

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The successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or Extertal environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are age-appropriate incongruent with local and cultural norms

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Mental illness

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Maladaptive responses to stress is from the internal external environment, evidence my thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are incongruent with the look on cultural norms and interference with the individual social, occupational, physical functioning

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12
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Incomprehensibility

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Inability of the general population to understand the motivation behind the behavior

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Cultural relativity

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Normality of behavior is determined by the culture

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Anxiety

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Diffuse apprehension that is Vega nature and is associated with feelings of uncertainty and helplessness. Extremely common in society.
Mild anxiety is adaptive and can provide motivation for survival

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Peplaus four levels of anxiety

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Mild, seldom a problem (eating crying laughing)
Moderate, perceptual field diminishes (migrane headaches, irritable bowels)
Severe, perceptual field is so diminished that concentration centers on one detail only or on many extraneous details (anxiety disorder)
Panic, the most intense state (schizo, delusional disorder)

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Grief

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Subjective state of emotional, physical and social responses to the loss of a valued entity and the loss may be real or perceived

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Five stages of grief

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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

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Anticipatory grief

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Experiencing of the grief process before the actual loss occurs

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Resolution of grief

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When individuals able to remember comfortably and realistically but the pleasures and disappointments of that which is lost

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20
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Resolution is hindered or delayed by

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They experience of guilt for having had a love hate relationship with the last entity. Having expensive number of recent losses and being unable to complete one grieving process before another one begins

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Resolution is facilitated by

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Anticipatory grieving

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Delayed or inhibited grief

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Absence of grief when it ordinarily would be expected. Person is not dealing with the reality of the loss and remains fixed in the denial stage of the grief process

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Denial

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Refusal to except reality or fact, acting as if the painful event, thought or feeling did not exist

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Regression

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Reversion to an earlier stage of development in the face of unacceptable thoughts are impulses

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Projection

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Misattribution of the persons undesired thoughts feelings or impulses onto another person who does not have those thoughts feelings or impulses

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Reaction formation

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Converting of unwanted or dangerous thoughts feelings or impulses into their opposites (when something is negative but they say something positive–mother neglected child but child says she she is a wonderful mother)

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Repression

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Unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts feelings and

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Displacement

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Redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses directed at one person or object but taken out upon another person (mad at boss but take it out on kids)

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Rationalization

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Putting something into a different light or offering a different explanation for once perceptions or behaviors in the face of the changing reality (get dumped by guy you like but say he’s a loser)

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Undoing

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Attempt to take back and unconscious behavior Or thought that is unacceptable or hurtful

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Sublimation

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Channeling of unacceptable impulses thoughts and emotions into more acceptable ones

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Compensation

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Psychologically counterbalancing perceived weaknesses by emphasizing strength in other areas

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Suppression

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The effort to hide in control unacceptable thoughts or feelings (attracted to someone but you say you don’t like that person)

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Adaptation

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Restoration of homeostasis to the internal environmental system; includes response is directed at stabilizing internal biological processes and psychological preservation of self identity and self-esteem

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Territoriality

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Innate tendency to own space

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Density

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The number of people within a given environmental space

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Distance

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Means by which various cultures use space to communicate

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Intimate distance

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Closest distance that individuals allow between themselves and others

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Personal distance

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Distance for interactions that are personal in nature, such as close conversation with friends

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Social distance

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Distance for conversation with strangers or acquaintances

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Public distance

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Distance for speaking in public or yelling to someone some distance away

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Active listening– SOLER

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Sit squarely facing the client, observe an open posture, lean forward toward the client, establish I contact, relax

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Milieu therapy

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Scientific structuring of the environment to affect behavioral changes and to improve the psychological health and functioning of the individual

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Focal stimuli

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Immediate concern that is causing the threat to self-esteem and the stimulus that is engendering the current behavior; termination and significant relationship, loss of employment

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Contextual stimuli

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All other stimuli present and persons environment that contribute to the behavior being caused by focal stimuli; Child becomes emotionally disabled in response to divorce or advanced age

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Residual stimuli

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Factors that influence one’s maladaptive behavior in response to focal and contextual stimuli, being in an environment of ridicule might affect the current adaptation to failure of NCLEX

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Distorted or exaggerated grief

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Individual becomes incapable of managing activities of daily living, remains fixed in the anger stage of the grief process, depressive mood disorder

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Chronic or prolonged grieving

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Behaviors aimed at keeping the lost loved ones alive, behaviors that prevent the individual from adaptively performing activities of daily living