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Mental Health - Jersey College Exam
Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Recovery Model - Answer✔️✔️-Focuses on helping individuals develop
the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need to make good choices
or change harmful behaviors.
Assists with psychiatric disabilities to mange symptoms. Reduces
psychosocial disability, and to find a meaningful life in a
community of their choosing.
12 step AA program.
Trauma Informed Care - Answer✔️✔️-Recognizes that trauma is
almost universally found in the histories of mental health patients
and is a contributor to mental health issues, substance abuse,
chronic health conditions, and contact with the criminal justice
system.
Physical, sexual, emotional abuse, war, natural disasters, and other
harmful experiences.
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Comforting - Answer✔️✔️-Providing social, emotional, physical and
spiritual support for a patient.
Patient Advocate - Answer✔️✔️-Not a legal role but an ethical role.
First placed in 1976 (ANA code of ethics for nurses)
Respect for human life while saving lives.
Mental Health - Answer✔️✔️-Is multifaced and involves our
emotional, psychological and social well being.
Can be affected by genetics, brain chemistry, and life exp.
Mental Illness - Answer✔️✔️-Affects a persons thinking, feeling, and
mood. Hard to maintain daily functioning.
Resiliency - Answer✔️✔️-the ability to adapt effectively and recover
from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.
Prevalence Rate - Answer✔️✔️-Total number of people infected at one
time in a population, regardless of when the disease began.
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Anorexia Nervosa - Answer✔️✔️-Psychological disorder involving loss
of appetite and excessive weight loss not caused by a physical
disease. Known in europe, north america, australia.
ID - Answer✔️✔️-Primitive, pleasure seeking, and impulsive part of
personalities that lurks in the unconscious mind.
EGO - Answer✔️✔️-The problem solver and reality tester that
navigates in the outside world. Between ID and reality. Uses
repression, denial, and rationalization.
SUPEREGO - Answer✔️✔️-Represents the moral component of the
personality that Freud referred to as our conscious, right and
wrong. Influenced by parents or caregivers morals and ethical
stances.
Psychodynamic Therapy - Answer✔️✔️-Therapy deriving from the
psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to
unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to
enhance self-insight.
10 to 12 sessions.
Transference - Answer✔️✔️-This occurs as the patients projects
intense feelings onto the therapist related to unfinished work from
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previous relationships. Expression of these feelings lead to a
successful therapy.
Schemata - Answer✔️✔️-Unique assumptions about ourselves,
others, and the world around us
Thorazine - Answer✔️✔️-Treatment of schizophrenia and dramatically
reduced the use of restraint and seclusion.
ECT - Answer✔️✔️-Can help treat severe depression and other psych
disorders.
A procedure that uses electrical current to induce a seizure and is
thought to work by affecting neurotransmitters and neuroreceptors.
Holistic Approach to Care - Answer✔️✔️-Involves an awareness of
psychological, social, cultural, environmental, functional, and
spiritual issues as well as ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age.
Tendency to Regress - Answer✔️✔️-Hallmark sign of psychiatric
disorders in children?
Asstertiveness - Answer✔️✔️-This will build a professional
relationship with patients and improve communication.
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