NR326 MENTAL HEALTH NURSING Exam 1 review
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.
Mental illness
Your mind's way of ...
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.
Mental illness
Your mind's way of dealing w/stress in terms of anxiety & grief in a negative or positive
Way.
Anxiety
A diffuse apprehension that is vague in nature and is associated with feelings of uncertainty and
Helplessness.
Mild anxiety
Type of anxiety that is seldom a problem; learning is enhanced.
Moderate anxiety
Type of anxiety in which the perceptual field diminishes
Severe anxiety
Type of anxiety where the perceptual fields are so diminished that concentration centers on one detail
only or on many extraneous details
,Panic anxiety
The most intense state of anxiety; learning can't occur; unable to focus on even one detail.
MASLOWS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
1. Physiological needs 2. Safety needs 3. Belongingness and love needs 4. Esteem needs 5. Self-
actualization needs
Compensation
Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers more
Desirable.
Rationalization
Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings
Or behaviors.
Denial
Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it.
Reaction formation
Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed
By exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors.
, Displacement
The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that
Is neutral.
Regression
Retreating in response to stress to an earlier level of development and the comfort measures
Associated with that level of functioning.
Identification
An attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain attributes and characteristics of an
Individual one admires.
Repression
Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness
Intellectualization
An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated with a stressful situation by
Using the intellectual processes of logic, reasoning, and analysis.
Sublimation
Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities
That are constructive.
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