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NU401 Exam One Questions And Verified DetailedAnswers 2024-2025
How has COVID impacted mental health disorders? -Answer Increased them quite a bit
anxiety: 8->25%
depression: 6.5->24%
Suicidal ideaiton: 4->10%
What concepts defines mental health and mental illness -Answer cultural concepts
what responses do people have from stress? -Answer psychological and physical
Maslow. What did he do? -Answer Established the hierarchy of needs and
self-actualization as fulfillment of one's highest potential
Define mental health Answer "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
Identify the two elements that Horwitz describes of how individuals view mental illness
Answer incomprehensibility and cultural relativity
incomprehensability Answer the inability of the general population to understand the
motivation behind the behavior
define cultural relativity - The "normality" of behaviour is defined by the culture
, When a person has mental illness, they have maladaptive response to stressors,
interfering with. - Social, occupational, and physical functioning
What is stress according to Hans Selye? - -"fight-or-flight" syndrome
-the state manifested by a specific syndrome which consists of all the nonspecifically
induced changes within a biological system
Selye's general adaptation syndrome stages: - Answer - alarm reaction stage
- stage of resistance
-stage of exhaustion
fight or flight syndrome is associated with 2 responses - Answer the immediate and
sustained responses
Disorder of adaptation that causes discomfort and apprehension r/t to fear of impending
danger - Answer anxiety
-can be unaware of source of anxiety
- extremely common in our society
Peplau's Four Levels of Anxiety - Answer Mild: seldom a problem
Moderate: perceptual field begins to narrow
Severe: perceptual field narrows considerably
Panic: the most extreme state
How do individuals adapt to light quantities of anxiety - Answer eating
drinking
sleeping
physical exercise
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