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MH Unit 2
Psych
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Personality | Sum of one's character traits including attributes, drives, aspirations, inhibitions, strengths, weaknesses, and all patterns of reaction |
| Mind | conscious, subconcious, and unconcious considered as whole |
| Trust | Confidence in or reliance upon the character, ability, strength, or truth of another |
| Autonomy | Self-containment: developing, responding, and reacting independently |
| Identity | Self-image or self-concept; sense of unity and continuity of one's own self in the face of changing experiences |
| Industry | Ability to desire to do the simple tasks such as drawing or putting puzzles together |
| Accomplishment | Development of interests and abilities either alone or in group activity |
| Renewed Identity | Development of sense of being an independent individual with one's own idea's, needs and goals |
| Involution | Period in the late Middle Ages when retrogressive psychological changes take place, including the loss of capacity for reproduction |
| Defnse Mechanism | Psychological technique performed by the ego, carried out below the subject's threshold of awareness, and designed to ward off anxiety or unpleasant tensions |
| Affect | Emotional reactions associated with an experience including inner feelings and external manifestations |
| Dynamics | Constantly operating forces within a system that results in some type of action of observable result. EX unconscious impulses |
| Enmeshed | boundaries are weak- interactions tense; dependency high -autonomy low; issue of power and control |
| Roles | particular responsibilities/ patterns of behavior assumed by family members |
| Power | influences each family member has on family process and function |
| Family, myths | well ingrained beliefs shared by members about each other and positions in family life |
| Dyads | marital couple united; dysfunctional when intimacies shift leaving one member out |
| Sibling position | birth order influences communication and behavior |
| Parentification | process of role reversal whereby the child takes on adult responsibilities |
| Scapegoat | usually the identifiable patient, who is the blame for the conflict in the family |
| Disengaged | refers to the family structure where members are distant and disconnected. |
| Triangulation | occurs when there is a conflict b/w 2 family members and they attempt to involve a 3rd person asked to take a side |
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