Nurs 360 Exam 1 Flashcards
Maladaptive responses
Negative or unhealthy and occur when the integrity of the individual is disrupted
Selyes General adaptation syndrome
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
Precipitating event
Stimulus arising from the internal or external environment and perceived by the individual in a specific manner
Primary appraisal
Judgment about the situation as irrelevant, benign-positive, stress appraisal
Secondary appraisal
Assessment of skills, resources and knowledge that the person possesses to deal with the situation
Cognitive appraisal
The individuals evaluation of the personal significance of an event or occurrence
Stress management
Use of coping strategies in response to stressful situations
Adaptive coping strategies
Protect individual from harmonist for a physical and psychological homeostasis (relaxation, meditation)
Maladaptive coping strategies
Occurs When the conflict being experienced because unresolved or intensifies (substance abuse, running away from problem, denying situation)
Mental health
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
Mental illness
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
Incomprehensibility
Inability of the general population to understand the motivation behind the behavior
Cultural relativity
Normality of behavior is determined by the culture
Anxiety
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
Peplaus four levels of anxiety
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)
Grief
Subjective state of emotional, physical and social responses to the loss of a valued entity and the loss may be real or perceived
Five stages of grief
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
Anticipatory grief
Experiencing of the grief process before the actual loss occurs
Resolution of grief
When individuals able to remember comfortably and realistically but the pleasures and disappointments of that which is lost