Test one Flashcards
Incomprehensibility
The inability of the general public to understand the motivation behind behavior, regardless of cultural norm.
Cultural relativity
Determination of normal and abnormal behavior as defined by one’s cultural or societal norms.
Describe Maslow’s
1-Physiological 2-Safety3-love/belonging 4-esteem 5-self actualization
Enculturation
Gradual acquistinon of cultural norms
Acculturalization
assimilation to a different culture while maintaining cultural uniqueness
Assimilation
Process in which a minority culture begins to resemble a society’s major group
What is General adaptation syndrome and what are the stages?
Flight or fight
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Compensation
Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers desirable
Rationalization and example
Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasoning to justify unacceptable feelings or behavior
Turned down by a date- They were not interested anyway
Denial
example
I don’t have a drinking problem
Reaction formation
Preventing undesirable thoughts or behaviors by exaggerating opposite thoughts or behaviors
a father hating being a dad but dotting on his son
Displacement ex
Stress and jaden
Identification
AN attempt to increase self worth by acquiring certain attributes as an individual that one admires
Student failing a test and dressing like SF
repression vs suppression
R is involuntary
intellectualization
an attempt to avoid emotions by using logic
Sublimation ex
re channeling of drives or impulses that are socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive
Someone wanting to fight but playing sports instead
Introjection
integrating the beliefs and values of another individual into ones own ego structure.
boys don’t cry
Isolation
Separating thought or memory from the feeling, tone, or emotion associated with it
rape example
undoing
Negating or cancelling out an event
Thinking badly of someone and then being super kind to them
projection
Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable
to one to another person
ryan
Five grief stages
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, depression, acceptance
Definition of crisis
A sudden event in one’s life that disturbs homeostasis during which the usual coping mechanisms cannot resolve the problem
Phases of a crisis
1-exposure to stress
2-failure of coping
3-New ideas or problem solving
4 is prior phase is not successful panic or despair can result
Dispositional crisis
Come from lack of info
Who to ask
what to do
what job to take
Crisis of anticipated life transition
events that take place in life
Maturation crisis
Erickson
Difference between crisis reflecting psychopathology and psychiatric emergency
a person can’t deal because of mental health vs harm to self or others
What is the crisis response
blueprint 7
Safety, communication, what happened, what is the plan, how do we get there, do it, review it.
Roberts 7 stage crisis model
Psy and lethality assessment, rapidly establish rapport, identify major problems, deal with feelings, explore alternatives, implement action plan, follow up.
What is the mental health first aid action plan
Assess risk for suicide/homicide Listen without judgment Give reassurance Encourage appropriate professional help Encourage self-help
What is milieu therapy?
Structuring the therapeutic environment in order to improve the psychological health and well-being of the person or people involved.
what are skinners basic assumptions for a therapeutic community
the health in each individual is to be realized and encouraged to grow
Each interaction is an opportunity to grow
owns environment
owns behavior
peer pressure is powerful
inappropriate behavior is felt with as they occur
restrictions and punishment are to be avoided
in milieu ,what is promoting a therapeutic community 5 things
Containment structure involvement support validation
explain frauds psychoanalytic theory
three parts conscious (aware), preconscious (can retrieve) and subconscious (repressed memories that are forgotten or nonessential)
Id, Ego, and Superego
Id-Let’s party Ego-mom and dad said we should not party Superego- never disobey
Sullivan’s Interpersonal theory and its major concept and self-esteem
Individual behavior and personality development are the direct result of interpersonal relationships.
Satisfaction of needs and relief from anxiety drive behavior
the good me, bad me, not me (dread, horror, awe, Loathing)
What is peplau’s theory and 4 that go with it
Stages of personality development learning to count on others learning to delay satisfaction identifying oneself developing skills in participation
name a cognitive theorist and the goal
Beck assit clients to challenge irrational thoughts or false beliefs
all or nothing thinking
I am either a success or a failure
Overgeneralization
This happened one time so it happens all of the time
mental filter or disqualifying the positive
Only seeing the bad
magnification or minimization
Accomplishments are minimized or small events are magnified
Emotional reasoning
concluding that something is real because of an emotional response
personalization
Blaming just yourself or someone else for something that is happening.
Pavlov vs skinner
classical conditioning-association
operant conditioning-learned through positive or negative reinforcement
What is biological theory
Belief that mental health disorders have an organic or physical cause such as genetics. neurotransmitters, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy
Cholinergics name one what does it do?
Acetylcholine parasympathetic
monoamine and what do they do
Norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, histamine
emotion, learning
amino acids examples
GABA, neuropeptides, glutamate serine
neuropeptides
Endorphins, substance p, somatostatin
Nursing interventions primary, secondary, tertiary
whole population, early detection and intervention, recovery decrease relapse
Thee things about a therapeutic relationship
views one another as a unique human being, goal oriented, growth promotion
what is the problem solving model?
identify the clients problem, promote discussion, discuss aspects that cannot realistically be changed and ways to cope with them, discuss alternative strategies.
what are the therapeutic nurse-client phases
pre-interaction phase, orientation phase, working phase, termination phase
What happens in the pre-interaction phase
obtain information and evaluate owns feelings
What happens in the orientation phase?
establish trust, contract for intervention, assess, nursing diagnosis, goals, plan, feelings
what happens in the working phase
promote growth, overcome resistance behaviors, evaluate progress
Two things that come up during the working phase and define them
transference and countertransference
t- patient to you- you look like me dad so…
ct- you to patient I remember when my partner was….
What happens during the termination phase
wrapping it up progress has been made, plan of action established, feelings adressed
types of spacial distance 4
intimate, personal, social, pubic
four things that are nontherapeutic communication techniques
giving false reassurance, rejecting, approving or disapproving, belittling feelings.
useful feedback
objective, behavior focused, specific, directed towards behavior that they can modify, information not advice, timely
