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Kozier Chp 42, 43
loss, grieving, &death, Stress and coping
Question | Answer |
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Loss | actual or potential situation in which something that is valued is changed, no longer available |
Grief | emotional response to the loss, total response to emotional experience |
Death | a fundamental loss. |
Bereavement | surviving the loss |
Mourning | a behavioral process |
Stress | a condition in which the person experience changes in the normal balanced state |
Stressor | any event or stimulus that cause an individual to experience stress. |
Coping Mechanism | an innate act or acquired way of responding to a changing environment or specific problem or situation |
Internal Stressor | originate within a person |
External Stressors | originate outside the individual-I.e. move to another city |
Developmental stressor | Occur at predictable times throughout an individual life |
Situational stressor | are unpredictable and may occur at any time during life |
Anxiety | state of mental uneasiness, apprehension, dread, or foreboding of a feeling of helpessness r/t to an impending or anticipated unidentified threat to self or significant relationships |
Fear | an emotion or feeling of apprehension aroused by impending or seeming danger, pain, or another perceived threat |
Anger | is emotional state consisting of a subjective feeling of animosity or strong displease |
Depression | an extreme feeling of sadness, despair, dejection, lack of worth, or emptiness, affects millions of Americans a year. |
Ego Defense Mechanisms | are unconscious psychological adaptive mechanisms or, according to Anna Freud, mental mechanisms that develop as the personality attempts to defend itself, establish compromises among conflicting impulses, and calm inner tensions |