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Mental Health
Ch 34
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| One's ability to cope with and adjust to the recurrent stresses of everyday living | Mental Health |
| Pattern of behaviors that is conspicuous,threatening, and disruptive of relationships or that deviate significantly from behavior that is considered socially and culturally acceptable | Mental Illness |
| A manner in which a person performs any or all of the activities of daily life | Behavior |
| It is estimated that one of every eight people in the US is in need of? | Mental Health Services |
| This person advocated humane care and maintenance of case history and conversation records | Dr. Philippe Pinel |
| This person serveyed jails, almshouses, and asylums and presented her findings to anyone who would listen, her efforts brought millions of dollars toward the development of mental hospitals throuhgout the US | Dorothea Dix |
| The first Psychiatric nurse | Linda Richards |
| On the illness side, each of us is rarely in touch with reality. On the healthy side, we demonstrate a high level of wellness | Mental Health Continuum |
| Poor self-concept, feelings of inadequacy, dependent behavior, pessimism, and poor judgment are some characteristics identified in? | Mental Illness |
| The basic innate to drive for survival and pleasure, demands constant gratification | ID |
| The reality factor, helps individuals perceive conditions accurately, decides how to act and when to act | EGO |
| The parental or societal value system, strives for perfection and morality, serves as judge or censor over thoughts and activities of the ego. | SUPEREGO |
| consistent set of attitudes and behaviors particular to an individual | Personality |
| Four areas of self | Personal identity,body image, role, self-esteem |
| All perceptions and values each of hold and our behavviors and interactions | Self-concept |
| The nonspecific response of the body to any demand made on it | Stress |
| A situation, activity, or event that produces stress | Stressor |
| A vague feeling of apprehension that results from a perceived treat to the self | Anxiety |
| Slight increase in vital signs and an awareness of danger | Mild Anxiety |
| Remains alert but only to specific information | Moderate Anxiety |
| Perceptual field narrows significantly and becomes distorted | Severe Anxiety |
| Feeling of extreme terror | Panic Anxiety |
| The state of homeostatic imbalance | Illness |
| Time of change or a turning point in life when we find it necessary to modify patterns of living to prevent our own disorganization or that of our family | Crisis |
| This role often produces secondary gains as well as personal attention | Sick Role |
| Behaviors common with illness | Denial,Anxiety,Shock,Anger,Withdrawal |
| Phases of crisis | Confusion,disbelief and high anxiety; Denial,anger,and remorse; Sadness and crying, grief; Reconciliation,acceptance,and adaptation |
| Assessment of Emotional Status | General appearance,general behavior,speech pattern,content of thought,mood and affect,sensorial function,insight and judgment,potential for danger(pg 1132) |
| Appointed to the President's Commission on Mental Health in 1978. Also a nurse educator and clinical specialist in psychiatric-mental health nursing | Martha Mitchell |
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