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ass. chapter 34 & 35
assistant with patient care chapters 34 and 35
Question | Answer |
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Affect | feelings and emotions |
Anxiety | a vague, uneasy feeling in response to stress |
Compulsion | the repeating of an act over and over again |
Conscious | awareness of the environment and experiences; the person knows what is happening and can control thoughts and behaviors |
Defense Mechanism | an unconscious reaction that blocks unpleasant or threatening feelings |
Delusion | a false belief |
Delusion of grandeur | an exaggerated belief about ones’ own importance, wealth, power, or talents |
Delusion of persecution | a false beliefs that one is being mistreated, abused, or harassed |
Ego | the part of the personality dealing with reality; deals with thought, reasoning, feelings, good sense, and problem solving |
Emotional illness | mental illness, mental disorder, psychiatric disorder |
Hallucination | seeing, hearing, or feeling something that is not real |
Id | the part of the personality at the unconscious level; concerned with pleasure |
Mental | relating to the mind; something that exists int eh mind or is done by the mind |
Mental disorder | mental illness, emotional illness, psychiatric disorder |
Mental health | the person copes with and adjusts to every stresses in ways accepted by society |
Mental illness | a disturbance in the ability to cope with or adjust to stress; behavior and function are impaired; mental disorder, emotional illness, psychiatric disorder |
Obsession | a recurrent, unwanted thought or idea |
Panic | an intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, terror, or dread |
Paranoia | a disorder of the mind; false beliefs and suspicion about a person or situation |
Personality | the set of attitudes, boluses, behaviors, and traits of a person |
Phobia | fear, panic, or dread |
Psychiatric disorder | mental illness, mental disorder, emotional illness |
Psychosis | a state of severe emotional impairment |
Stress | the response or change in the body caused by any emotional, physical, social or economic factor |
Stressor | any factor that causes stress |
Subconscious | memory, past experiences, and thoughts of which the person is not aware; they are easily recalled |
Superego | the part of the personality concerned with right and wrong |
Unconscious | experiences and feelings that cannot be recalled |
Delirium | a state of temporary but acute mental confusion |
Delusion | a false belief |
Dementia | the loss of cognitive and social function caused by changes in the brain |
Hallucination | seeing, hearing. Or feeling something that is not real |
Pseudodementia | false dementia |
Sundowning | signs, symptoms, and behaviors of AD increase during hours of darkness |