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Mental health week 3
Griffith nursing week 3
Question | Answer |
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What is the Medical Model? (Mental health) | *Sceintific approach to the study of the brain, genetics and the nervous system to explain and treat mental disorders. *Disorder is seen as an illness, and thus treated biomedically. |
What are the models that are used in constructing a mental illness? | *Medical/Biological Model *Behavioural Model *Humanistic Model *Psycho-dynamic model *Strengths Model |
What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy? | *Based on the premise that its not what happens to us that causes us problems, but how we perceive that problem. |
What is the Psycho-dynamic Model? (Mental health) | *Intra-psychic conflicts lead to anxiety and then to defense mechanisms. When the coping mechanism is inadequate a mental disorder can result. |
What is the Humanistic Model? (Mental health) | *Emohasis on the holistic view of the person; individual, the present and personal meanings are valued. *Who is the self? Who do I want to be? *When there is incongruence between the ideal self and the real self, anxiety occurs. |
What is the Medical Model? (Mental health) | *Sceintific approach to the study of the brain, genetics and the nervous system to explain and treat mental disorders. *Disorder is seen as an illness, and thus treated biomedically. |
What are the models that are used in constructing a mental illness? | *Medical/Biological Model *Behavioural Model *Humanistic Model *Psycho-dynamic model *Strengths Model |
What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy? | *Based on the premise that its not what happens to us that causes us problems, but how we perceive that problem. |
What is the Psycho-dynamic Model? (Mental health) | *Intra-psychic conflicts lead to anxiety and then to defense mechanisms. When the coping mechanism is inadequate a mental disorder can result. |
What is the Humanistic Model? (Mental health) | *Emohasis on the holistic view of the person; individual, the present and personal meanings are valued. *Who is the self? Who do I want to be? *When there is incongruence between the ideal self and the real self, anxiety occurs. |
What is the Strengths Model? (Mental health) | *Solution focused nursing. *Aims to assist consumers in identifying, securing and sustaining the range of resources needed to live, play and work in a normally interdependent way in the community. |
Definition of Psychosis? | A disturbance in thought,mood and behaviour in which the individual has little to no insight into their condition. |
What was Schizophrenia originally called? | Dementia Praecox |
Symptoms of Schizophrenia? | *Disturbed thought processes. *Disturbed affect (flat, elated, labile). *Disturbed perception (hallucinations). *Disturbed Volition. *Disturbed psychomotor behaviour. |
What are the positive symptoms of Schizophrenia? | Hallucinations and delusions. |
What are the negative symptoms of Schizophrenia? | Decreased emotional response, poor eye contact, Avolition and Anhedonia. |
Schizophrenia treatments? | Medication, Counselling therapy and ECT. |