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MH Chap 2
Historical & Theoretical Concepts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Early beliefs centered on mental illness in terms of: | Evil spirits or supernatural or magical powers that entered the body. |
| Hippocrates associated mental illness with wat: | An irregularity in the interaction among the four humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. |
| Wat r the two major, primary psychological response patterns to stress. | Anxiety and grief |
| Mental Health | The successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are age-appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms.” |
| When was The National Mental Health Act was passed by the federal government and wat did it provide | 1946; It provided funds for the education of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatric nurses. |
| Mental Illness | Maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment,evidenced by thoughts, feelings & behaviors that r incongruent w the local & cultural norms & interfere with the individual’s social, occupational, or physical functioning. |
| Incomprehensibility | The inability of the general population to understand the motivation behind the behavior. |
| Cultural Relativity | The “normality” of behavior is determined by the culture. |
| Peplau’s four levels of anxiety Mild | seldom a problem; Is adaptive and can provide motivation for survival. |
| Peplau’s four levels of anxiety Moderate | Perceptual field diminishes |
| Peplau’s four levels of anxiety Severe | Perceptual field is so diminished that concentration centers on one detail only or on many extraneous details |
| Peplau’s four levels of anxiety Panic | The most intense state |
| At this level individuals employ various coping mechanisms to deal with stress. | Mild Anxiety |
| Eating, drinking, sleeping, physical exercise, smoking, crying, laughing, and talking to persons with whom they feel comfortable are coping mechanisms for which level | Mild Anxiety |
| At the mild to moderate level of anxiety the ego calls on what mechanisms to cope | The Defense Mechanisms |
| Anxiety at the moderate to severe level that remains unresolved over an extended period of time can contribute to | A number of physiological disorders—for example, migraine headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, and cardiac arrhythmias. |
| Extended periods of repressed severe anxiety can result in | Psychoneurotic patterns of behaving—for example, anxiety disorders and somatoform disorders. |
| Extended periods of functioning at the panic level of anxiety may result in | Psychotic behavior; for example, schizophrenic, schizoaffective, and delusional disorders. |
| Grief | The subjective state of emotional, physical, and social responses to the loss of a valued entity; the loss may be real or perceived. |
| Wat r Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's 5 Stages of Grief Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance | Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression & Acceptance |
| Anticipatory grief | The experiencing of the grief process before the actual loss occurs |
| Resolution | Length of the grief process is entirely individual. It can last from a few weeks to years. It is influenced by a number of factors. |
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