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Basic Concepts of Mental Health

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Behavior   As the manner in which a person performs any or all of the activities of daily life  
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Mental health   As ones ability to cope with and adjust to the recurrent stresses of everyday living  
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Factors that can affect Mental Health   Inherited,characteristics,childhood nursing,lifes circumstances  
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Negative influence factors of Mental health   Extreme sibling rivalry,Deprivation of maternal love,broken relationships,parental rejection,poverty  
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Positive influence factors of Mental Health   inherent,mother child bonding at birth,positive success in school,The right of privelage  
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Mental Health and Mental Illness opposite ends of the mental health continuum   Mental health-Adaptive, Mental Illness-Maladaptive  
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Maladaption   not providing adequate or appropriate adjustment to the situation or environment  
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Characteristic identified in Mental Health    
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personality   the relatively consistent set of attitudes and behaviors particular to an individual  
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personality unique patterns   mental, emotional, behavior traits, woven together.  
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Linda Richards   was the first psychiatric nurse in the 1880s she provided the first training school for nurses  
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Martha Mitchell   a nurse educator and clinical specialist in psychiatric mental health nursing  
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Dr. sigmoid freud   father of psychiatry Australian elaborate theories and treatments of illness.  
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Hippocrates   isolation of behavior elements of the world by physicians goals to make patient comfortable with massage warm bath and music  
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first hospital in London England for mental institution   Bethlem Royal Hospital.patients were called lunatics freaks laughed at people paid money to go look at the patients patients were In a dirty environment  
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Dr. Phillipe pinel   advocate for human care he started case history for patients change concept of care opened 2 Paris hospitals.  
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Dr. Benjamin Rush   father of American psychiatry also signed the declaration of independence established to American hospitals for psych patients.  
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self   is a complex concept comprising four distinct parts that influence behavior  
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personal identity is the;   I  
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body image   includes feelings about the way you look, the way your body functions, sex, size, whether your body image help she realize personal gains.  
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manifestations of body image includes   stance, posture, clothing, and jewelry  
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role performance   is expected behavior of an individual and social position  
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roles   ascribed role – being female or male involves no personal choice, assumed role – occupation is selected by individual.  
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self-esteem   is the assessment we make about personal worth  
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self-concept   framework of reference we use for all we know experience. self-concept includes all perceptions and values each of us holds and our behaviors and interactions.  
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stress   is a nonspecific response of the body to any demand made on it.  
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stressors   are a situation activity or any event that produces stress.  
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examples of stressors   physical, social, economic, chemical, spiritual or developmental, or some combination of all of these.  
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good stress   that facilitates individual growth and development and promotes changes and adaptions brings positive results.  
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bad stress   can be overwhelming yielding the negative carrot sticks or ineffective coping.  
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anxiety   a bag feeling of apprehension that results from perceived threat to self.  
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mild form of anxiety   white increase in vital signs and an awareness of danger able to think and make connections is ready for action motivation is increased.  
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moderate anxiety   feels tension perception has decreased physical signs and symptoms often appear of headache, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, lower back pain, and increased vital signs.  
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severe anxiety   experiences a feeling of impending danger,communication possibly distorted possibly distorted and feels fatigued,and changes in vital signs potentially evident on assessment.  
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panic anxiety   feeling of extreme terror, possibly becomes immobilized, reality is distorted,has potential to cause harm to self and others.  
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motivation   the gathering of personal resources or inner drive to complete a task or reach a goal.  
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frustration   anything interferes with gold directed activity.  
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conflict   struggle usually a mental one either conscious or unconscious.  
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adaptation   to our ability to adjust to a changing life situations by using various strategies.  
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coping responses   the responses we used to reduce anxiety brought on by stress.  
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common coping responses   over eating drinking smoking which raw seeking out to someone to talk with yelling exercising or other physical activity pacing or listening to music.  
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defense mechanisms   behavior patterns that protect us against a real or perceived threat.  
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illness behaviors   a state of homeless static imbalance.  
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crisis   a time of change or turning point in life when we find it necessary to modify patterns of living to prevent our own disorganization or that of our family. Difficulty coping with an illness or crisis denial hostile anger and aggression.  
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denial with an illness   refuses to admit that they are ill short-term denial or a long-term denial.  
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anxiety with an illness   Phillies of apprehension and uncertainty about illness  
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fear with an illness   fight or flight response assess vital signs to help maintain level of anxiety.  
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shock with illness   an overwhelming emotion that paralyzes their individual ability to process information no decision-making is possible unable to sort through information received example, you have cancer.  
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anger with illness   a response to feeling mistreated injured or insulted anger behaviors as directed either inward or outward others or both.  
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withdrawal with illness   removes itself from interaction with others and the environment and will isolate herself or himself from family.  
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identity crisis   as a condition of instability that arises from emotional or situational upheaval and result in extreme or decisive change. Nurses deal with crisis every day.  
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mental illness   often consists of a pattern of behaviors that is can specialist threatening destructive Avenue relationships or the deviates significantly from behavior that is considered socially and culturally acceptable.  
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disinstitutionalization   release of institutional psychiatric patients to have and receive treatment in a community setting.  
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characteristics identified mental illness   poor self-concept, feelings of inadequacy, poor judgment, and ability to cope, irresponsibility, Mel and adaptive behavior, demands or seeks immediate gratification, and inability to establish a meaningful relationship.  
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ID   the basic innate drive for survival and pleasure, demand constant gratification, it's goals are to reduce tension, to increase pleasure, and to keep discomfort to a minimum.  
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ego   the reality factor, decide how to act and when to act, helps the individual perceived conditions accurately.  
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super ego   the parental and societal value system, strives to perfection and morality, develops from the ego, serves as a judge or censor over thoughts and activities of an eagle  
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compensation   the individual makes up for a deficiency in one area by excelling in or emphasizing another area.  
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conversion   emotional conflicts are turned into a physical system which provides individual was some sort of benefit secondary gain.  
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denial   reality is denied like it does not exist.  
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displacement   emotions are expressed toward someone or something other than the actual source of the emotion.The individual does not feel safe expressing the feelings directly.  
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disassociation   separation and detachment of emotional significance and effect from an idea or situation.  
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introjection   a quality or at Butte of another is internalized and becomes part of the individual.  
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regression   behavior, thoughts, or fillings used at an earlier stage of development are exhibited.  
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repression   the unconscious process of borrowing from conscience thought of painful, disagreeable thoughts, experiences, and or impulses.  
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sublimation   the discharge of sexual or aggressive energy and impulses in a socially acceptable way.  
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suppression   an intentional conscious exclusion of painful thoughts, experiences, or impulses.  
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William Tukes   he is a Quaker built in an asylum similar to a Quaker home he was a philosophy of care encourage acceptable behavior by providing a nurturing atmosphere  
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Bedlam   means place of confusion and disaster  
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Dr. Benjamin Rush   father of American psychiatry signer of the declaration of independence.he also established the first psychiatric hospital in Williamsburg Virginia.  
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Dorothea Dix   retired schoolteacher upon by care survey jails silent houses told anyone who would listen about the conditions.  
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Clifford beers   college student that wrote the book in mind that found itself he had attempted suicide spent three years in a mental hospital.  
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electroconvulsive therapy   treatment developed to treat mental health patients.  
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1981 Pres. Ronald Reagan did what?   he passed the OBRA Act. Drastically reducing funding for the mental health system.  
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in 1979 Jimmy Carter established?   the president commission of mental health.  
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crisis interventions   goals are to decrease emotional stress and protect the victim, assist the victim to organize and mobilize resources, return to precrisis status or a higher functional level.  
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