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Psychology
Mental Health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| levels of consciousness is described using the following terms | alert, lethargic, obtundation, stupor, coma |
| physical appearance assessment | evaluation includes the client's personal hygiene, grooming, and clothing choice |
| behavior assessment | evaluation includes voluntary movement, involuntary movements, mood, affect, |
| cognitive and intellectual abilities | determines the client's orientation to time, person, and place. evaluate the client memory, both recent and remote |
| children and adolescents | trust other people, safety, interpret their environment, master developmental tasks, and use appropriate coping kills |
| AXIS I | all mental health disgnosis except for those found in Axis II |
| AXIS II | any personality disorder disgnosis and mental retardation |
| AXIS III | any general medical diagnosis, such as asthma |
| AXIS IV | pertinent psychosocial problems and problems that may affect diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of mental disorder, such as poor family support |
| AXIS V | Global Assessment Functioning (GAF) measured with a scale from 1 to 100 |
| voluntary commitment | the client chooses commitment to a mental health facility in order to obtain treatment. has the right to apply for release at any time |
| Involuntary Commitment | the client enters the mental health facility against her will for an indefinite period of time. |
| Emergency Involuntary Commitment | a type of involuntary commitment in which the client is hospitalized to prevent harm to self or to others. can be temporary, usually for 10 days. |
| altruism | dealing with anxiety by reaching out to others |
| sublimation | dealing with unacceptable feeling or impulses by unconsciously substituting acceptable forms of expression |
| suppression | voluntary denying unpleasant thoughts and feeling |
| repression | putting unacceptable ideas, thoughts, and emotions out of conscious awareness |
| Displacement | shifting feeling related to and object, person, or situation to another less threatening object, person, or situation. |
| Reaction Formation | overcompensating or demonstrating the opposite behavior of what has left |
| Somatization | developing a physical symptom in a place of anxiety |
| Undoing | performing an act to make up for prior behavior |
| Rationalizationq | creating reasonable and acceptable explanations for unacceptable behavior |
| Passive Agression | indirectly behaving aggressively, but appearing to be compliant |
| Acting-out Behavior | managing emotional conflict through actions, rather than self-reflection |
| Dissociation | temporarily blocking memories and perceptions from consciousness |
| Devaluation | expressing negative thoughts of self or others |
| Idealization | expressing extremely positive thoughts of self or others |
| Splitting | demonstrating an inability to reconcile negative and positive attributes of self or others |