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MCCpsych test 1-3
psych
Question | Answer |
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psychoanalytic theroy | all human behavior is caused and can be explained(Freud) |
free association | saying a word and having the client respond quickly as possible |
ego defensive mechanisms (EDM) | way of coping with basic drives or emotional painful thoughts feelings or events |
(EDM) compensation | overachievement in one area to compensate for perceived lack of another area |
(EDM)conversion | expression of emotional conflict through development of physical symptoms |
(EDM)denial | failure to acknowledge unbearable condition |
(EDM)displacement | venting intense feelings towards less threatening than the one who elicted them |
(EDM)dissociation | temp altercation of con to deal with conflict, example amnesia after accedent, or adult that remembers nothing of childhood sexual abuse |
(EDM)fixation | stuck in one of the childhood developmental stages |
(EDM)identification | modeling actions and opinions of influential others while searching for identity. |
(EDM)intellectualization | ignoring emotions and addressing the facts |
(EDM) introjection | accepting anothers values and belifes and attatudes as ones own, ex. person who dislikes guns becomes a hunter just like his best friend |
(EDM)projection | blaming of unacceptable thoughts on another, ex. closeted homo beats the crap out of a gay man. |
(EDM)rationalization | excusing behavior avoiding responsibility for it by blaming others (thus rationalizing it) |
(EDM)reaction formation | acting the opposite of what one thinks. ex. complementing the boss that you wish was face down in a gutter dead in his won piss and shit, being eaten by rats and stray dogs |
(EDM)regression | moving back to a developmental stage. man pouts like a five year old girl is his girl friend ignores him. |
(EDM)repression | removal of thoughts that are to painful. woman dosnt remember being mugged yesterday |
(EDM)resistance | overt or covert antagonism toward remembering or processing anxiety producing information. attends court ordered AA but wont participate |
(EDM)sublimation | substituting a socially acceptable activity for an umpulse that is unacceptable, ie. subbing hard candy for a cigerette, going for a 15 min walk when hungry for an entire pizza, cake and a 2L of mt dew. |
(EDM)substitution | replacing the desired gratification with one that is more readily available. woman wants a child and opens a daycare |
(EDM)supression | conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts and feelings from the conscious awareness. student wont think about parents illness to study for a test, woman tells a friend that she cant think about her sons death right now |
(EDM)undoing | exhibiting acceptable behavior to make up for or negate unacceptable behavior. cheating wife cleans house and makes a nice dinner for husband and blows him under the dinning room table. |
taxonomy that decribes all mental disorders, outlining specific diagnostic criteria | DSM-IV-TR. uses multiaxial classification system (axis 1-5) |
axis 1 | psychiatric disorders except retardation, and personality disorders, examples include schizophrenia anxiety depression and substance related disorders |
axis 2 | reports mental retardation and personality disorders, prominant maladaptive personality features and defense mechanisms |
axis 3 | curent medical conditions co morbidities |
axis 4 | psychosocial enviromentalproblems IE. lack of primary suport system, social enviroment, education occupation, housing, economics and access to health care and legal assistance |
axis 5 | Global assessment of fuctioning ranges from 0-100. |
3 factors influncing a persons mental health | individual, interpersonal, social/cultural |
Peplaus stages of relationships | orientation, identification, exploration, resolution |
Orientation phase | problems and needs id, pt asks Q's, expectations explained, pt harnesses energy toward meeting problems, pts full participation is elicted |
Identification phase | pt responds to persons pt feels is helpful, pt feels stronger, pt expresses feelings, interdependant work is done with the RN, roles are established between RN and pt |
Exploration phase | pt makes full use of services available, goals are such as going home and returning to work emerge, patients behaviors flux between dependance and independence, |
Resolution | pt gives up dependent behavior, services are no longer required by pt, pt assumes power to meet own needs set new goals and so forth |
4 levels of anxiety | mild moderate severe and panic |
mild anxiety | hightened awareness and sharpened senses, learning new behaviors and solving problems, full perceptual field |
moderate anxiety | decrease in perceptual field, can learn and solve only with assistance |
severe anxiety | perceptual field reduced to one detail or scattered details, can not complete tasks as directed, physiological symptoms tach increased resps, diaphoresis, chest pain |
panic anxiety | loss of rational thought, delusions, hallucinations, and complete physical immobility and mutness, person may bolt and run aimlessly and suffer injury from stupidity(dumb ass) |
first stage of crisis | the person is exposed to a stressor experiences anxiety and tries to cope in a customary fashion |
second stage of crisis | anxiety increases when customary coping fails |
third stage of crisis | the person all possible efforts to deal with the stressor including attempts at new methods of coping. |
forth stage of crisis | when coping attempts fail the person experiences disequilibrium and significant distress |
maturational crisis | sometimes called developmental crisis, are predictable, events in the normal course of life such as leaving home, having a baby(fuck!) |
situational crisis | unanticipated, that threaten the individuals integrity such as death, loss of a job, or home, physcial or emotional illness |
adventitious crisis | (social crisis) include natural disasters, war, earthquakes riots and violent crimes such as rape or murder |
3 factors that affect the outcome of a crisis | individuals perception of the event, emotional supports and availability of adequate coping skills |
all crisis comes to an end, three ways that happen (if person is living at the end of it) are | 1)person returns to precrisis level of functioning. 2)functions a new higher level. 3)persons functioning stabilizes at a lower level. |
crisis intervention (requires assessment of individual) | direct intervention:assess health and promote problem solving, Supportive interventions:offering understanding and encouragement and afferming self worth |