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Health Unit 2 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Repression | involuntarily pushing out unpleasant experiences below the surface and out of conscious thought. |
| Regression | Acting childish |
| Projection | Blaming inappropriate actions on others |
| Suppression | Consciously/ intentionally pushing out unpleasant experiences from ones mind |
| Denial | Refusing to accept reality |
| Idealization | Seeing someone else as perfect or ideal |
| Rationalization | Justifying ones actions with an excuse rather than taking responsibility |
| Compensation | Wanting to cover up weakness |
| Stress | Body and minds reactions to everyday challenges and demands |
| Perception | is the act of becoming aware through the senses |
| Homeostasis | bodys preferred state of functioning |
| Borderline personality | engages on high risk |
| Passive aggressive personality | issues of control. Resents being told what to do, yet relies on others for directions...does not want the follower but does not know how to be a leader. |
| Coping | dealing with difficult changes in your life |
| Grief Response | an individuals total response to a major loss |
| Psychotherapy | An ongoing dialogue between a patient and a mental health professional. Designed to find the cause of the problem and devise a solution |
| Behavior therapy | A treatment that focuses on changing the unwanted behaviors through rewards and reinforcements |
| Cognitive therapy | A treatment method designed to identify and correct distorted thinking patterns that can lead to feelings and behaviors that may be troublesome, self-defeating, or self-destructive |
| Mourning | the act of showing sorrow or grief |
| Type A person | competitive, high-achieving personality type most likely to develops heart disease |
| Type B person | laid back, non-competitive personality type less likely to suffer from heart disease |
| Depression | prolonged feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness |
| Anxiety | the condition of feeling uneasy or worried about what may happen. |
| Resiliency | the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis |
| Phobias | an irrational fear of something |
| Counselor | a psychologist who diagnoses and treats emotional and behavioral disorders and cannot prescribe medicine |
| Organic disorder | clearly caused by a physical illness or an injury that affects the brain |
| Functional | may occur as the result of psychological causes which no clear damage to the brain |
| OCD | trapped in a pattern of repeated behaviors or thoughts. recurrent |
| Panic disorder | fear gets in the way of functioning |
| PST | a person who has experienced or witnessed a traumatic event feels severe and long lasting effects |
| Mood disorder | an illness often with an organic cause that relates to emotions and may involve mood swings or mood extremes that interfere with everyday living |
| Clinical depression | feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or despair that lasts for more than a few weeks and interrupts with daily life and activities |
| Bipolar Disorder or manic depressive diorder | a psychological illness characterized by extreme mood swings between depression and extreme happiness, or mania |
| Eating disorder | caused by psychological pressures, possible genetic factors, and an obsession with body image and thinness. |
| Bulimia Nervosa | disorder in which some form of purging or clearing of the digestive tract follows cycles of overeating |
| Anorexia Nervosa | the irrational fear of becoming obese results in severe weight loss from self imposed starvation. |
| Conduct disorder | A pattern of behavior in which the rights or basic social rules are violated |
| Schizphrenia | A serious mental disorder meaning "split mind" which person losses sense of reality |
| Personality Disorders | A variety of psychological conditions that affect a persona ability to get along with others |
| Antisocial personality disorder | cruel, uncaring , irresponsible |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | experience a series of troubled relationships. tend to engage in high risk activities and have poor self esteem |
| Passive Aggressive personality disorder | resent being told what to do, yet they rely on others for direction. Angry over issues of control, they show their anger indirectly |
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