PNG-2254 Mental Health Exam 1
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Mental Heath - Answer The successful feelings Stressors from the internal or
externalenviroments, evidenced by thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
Mental illness - Answer Maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external
environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with
the local and cultural norms and interfere with the individual's social, occupational, or
physical functioning. culture does impact how people view mental illness.
Maslow identified - Answer A "hierarchy of needs"
Self-actualization as fulfillment of one's highest potential and reflection.
Response to stress - Answer Anxiety and greif can contribute to mental illness.
What are the two types of responses to stress. - Answer Physical and psychological.
Physical espouse to stress - Answer Fight or flight syndrome (immediate vs sustained
response).
Substained physical response. - Answer Promotes susceptibility to diseases of
adaptation.
Seles general adaptation syndrome (physical response) - Answer Alarm reaction stage
(fight or flight)
Stage of resistance
Stage of exhaustion
Psychological Responses - Answer -Anxiety and grief have been described as two
major, primary psychological response patterns to stress.
-A variety of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are associated with each of these
response patterns.
-Adaptation is determined by the extent to which the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
interfere with an individual's functioning.
Peplau's four levels of anxiety - Answer mild, moderate, severe, panic
Mild: seldom a problem.
, Moderate: preceptual feild begins to disminish
severe:
Panic:
Anxiety - Answer A diffuse apprehension that is vague in nature and is associated with
feelings of uncertainty and helplessness.
Mild anxiety - Answer Is adaptive and can provide motivation for survival.
Individuals employ various coping mechanisions to with stress. deal
What are defense mechanisms? - Answer mental processes that protect individuals
from strong or stressful emotions and situations
Moderate to severe anxiety - Answer Anxiety at this level that remains unresolved over
an extended period of time can contribute to a number of physiological disorders.
Measurable pathophysiology can be demonstrated.For headache. example,
Panic level of anxiety - Answer Extended periods of functioning at the panic level of
anxiety may resort in Psychotic behaviour - schizophrenic disorders.
Grief - Answer Is a subjective state of emotional, physical, and social response to the
loss of valued
Entity.
5 stages of grief - Answer 1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
Personality - Answer an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and
acting
Life-cycle developmentalists - Answer believe that people continue to develop and
change throughout life, thereby suggesting the possibility for renewal and growth in
adults
Ethical dilemmas - Answer Occur when moral appeals can be made for taking either of
two opposing courses of action, taking no action is considerd an action taken.
Moral behavior: - Answer conduct that results from serious critical thinking about how
individuals ought to treat others
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