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mental health
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Road-Block | all or nothing thinking |
| Self-Esteem | the confidence and worth that you feel about yourself |
| Feedback | messages from others that indicate who they think you are or what they think you are like. |
| Self-Talk | how you respond to yourself in times of defeat or disappointment |
| Abraham Maslow | organized human needs into the form of a pyramid. |
| Hierarchy of Needs | a ranked list of those needs essential to human growth and development presented in ascending order from the most basic to the most fulfilling or satisfying. |
| Levels of hierarchy of needs | Physical, Emotional, Aesthetic, Self-fulfilling |
| personality | a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique and sets you apart from everyone else. |
| Emotions | signals that tell your mind and body how to react. |
| Defense mechanisms | strategies used to deal with strong or stressful emotions and situations. 12. Resiliency: the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis. |
| resiliency | the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis |
| 3 stages of the body's stress response | Alarm, resistance, and fatigue. |
| type A | competitive, high achieving personality type most likely to develop heart disease or other significant health problems. |
| type B | laid back, non competitive personality type less likely to suffer from heart disease. |
| 4 signs of stress | Physical, Emotional, Mental, Behavioral |
| 5 stages of loss | Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance |
| cluster suicides | a rash of suicides occurring within a short space of time and involving several people in the same school or community. |
| delayed grief response | putting off of the most intense stages of grief |
| grief reaction | an individual’s total response to a major loss. |