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Mental Health
Unit 1,2,3,4
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Nursing
Undergraduate 1
09/18/2011

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Term

 

 

What is the term for Mental Illness?

Definition

 

it is clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome marked by the pts. distress, disability, or the risk of suffering disability or loss of freedom.

Term

 

 

What is the Mental Health Continuum based on?

Definition
It is how people deal with Stress and Anxiety and act or cope with it on a daily basis.
Term

 

According to the Mental Health Continuum how does a person in a Well-Being state react to Stressors?

Definition

 

 

Adequate to high-level functioning in response to routine stress and resultant anxiety or distress.

Term

T or F

 

There is a Middle ground in between how mental health and mental illness can be conceptualized relating to the Mental Health Continuum?

Definition

 

 

Definetly True

Term

 

What characteristics would appear for concern when a person has Emotional Problems in their actions or feelings?

Definition

 

Mild to moderate distress, and Mild or Temperary Impairment

Term

 

What is considered Characteristics of someone who has a mental illness?

Definition

 

Marked Distress, and Moderate to Disabling or Chronic Impairment

Term

 

 

What is the DSM-IV-TR?

(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

Definition

 

A thick manuel tha classifies more than 300 mental disorders.

States that there is evidence suggesting that the symptoms and causes of a momber of disorders are influenced by cultural and ethnic factors.

Term

 

 

What is the DSM-IV-TR's purpose?

Definition

 

 

To help health care workers evaluate and factor into an individual's plan of care.

(Has an Axis System, by requiring judgements to be mad on each of 5 Axes, forces the diagnostician to consider a broad range of information.)

Term

 

 

What is Axis I?

Definition
Term

 

What does Axis I refer to?

Definition

The collection of signs and symptoms that togeter constitute a particular Disorder

 

-So the Diagnosis or Disorder-

Term

 

 

What does Axis II refer to?

Definition

 

Personality Disorders consisting of either

Mental Retardation(mentally delayed)

 

or a Antisocial Disorder

(ex. OCD, Narcissistic, Paranoid...)

Term

 

 

What does Axis III refer to?

Definition

 

Any general Medical Conditions believed to be relevant to the mental disorder in Question

(ex. neurological dysfunxn, or Diabetes)

Term

 

 

What does Axis IV refer to?

Definition

 

 

Psychosocial and Enviromental problems

(ex. occupational, or interpersonal difficulties)

Term

 

 

Finally, What does Axis V refer to?

Definition

GAF

Global Assessment of Functioning

gives indication of person's best livel of psychological, social, and occupational functioning during the preceding year, rated (1-100)

100 being the Best Functioning

Term

 

What is the scope of practice for a 

 

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse?

Definition

Promoting mental health through assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of human responses to disorder or mental health problems.

 

Learns to assess and diagnose pts. illnessess, identify outcomes , plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care

(chooses to work in Mental Health)

Term

 

 

What is the ID in Freud's theories?

 

Definition

 

The source of all drives, instincts, reflexes,needs, genetic inheritance, and capacity to respond

 

(Ex: a hungry, screaming infant)

Term

 

 

What is the Ego in Freud's theories?

Definition

emerges in the 4th or 5th month of life, is the problem solver and reality tester.

 

Uses reality testing meaning the individual is factoring in reality to implement a plan to decrease tension (delaying gratification)

 

 

Term

Example of the Ego:

 

A hungry man feels tension arising from the ID.

 

His EGO at this time allows him to what?

 

Definition

 

The EGO allows him to not only think about his hunger but to plan where he can eat and to seek that destination.

(reality testing)

Term

 

 

What does Superego refer as according to Freud?

Definition

This is the conscience or moral component of personality.  It seeks perfection rather than the pleasure of the ID or reality of the EGO.

 

(ex:  Wants to help the whole world, has the world over their shoulders.)

Term

What is transference?
Definition

 

It is patient holding feelings towards the nurse or therapist that the pt. held towards significant others in his or her life.

 

(pt. towards nurse)

Term

 

What is countertransference?

Definition

 

Health care worker's unconsious feelings and personal response to the patient.

Ex: "That kid reminds me of my brother"

 

(Nurse to Patient)

Term

 

What is Freud's psychoanalysis about?

Definition

 

the premise that all mental illness is caused by early intrapsychic conflict, such therapy is timely and expensive so it is usually not used but two terms come from

-psychoanalysis-

(transference and countertransference)

Term

Who was the theorist responsible for

 

Classical Conditioning?

Definition

Pavlov (1928)

 

found that when a neutral stimulus (a bell) was repeatedly paired with another stimulus (food that triggered salivation, eventually the sound of the bell alone cold elicit salivation in the dogs.

Term

 

Who is the theorist responsible for

 

Operant Conditioning?

Definition

Skinner (1987)

 

researched that voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences, and behavioral responses are elicited through reinforcement, which causes a behavior to occur more frequently.

(Ex: positive- reward for good grades)

Term

True or False

 

Operant Conditioning can be both

 

positive or negative

Definition

 

True

 

positive or negative reinforcement

Term

 

What is the term that involves the development of

 

behavioral tasks customized to the pts specific fears?

 

 

Definition

 

 

 Systematic Desensitization

 

These tasks are presented to pt. while using learned relaxation techniques

Term

 

Skinner's Operant Conditioning used  these (2) ways to reinforce behaviors?

Definition

Desensitization

 

and

 

Aversion

Term

 

 

What is Adversion Therapy?

Definition

 

 Extinguishing undesirable behaviors with adversive stimuli

 

(Ex: foul-tasting substance on nails to stop biting, or thumb to stop sucking, chemicals to induce N/V, disturbing scenes)

 

Term

 

T or F

 

 Punishment and Negative Reinforcement is the same thing

Definition

False,

Punishment introduces an unwanted stimulus after a behavior not before.

 

Aversive therapy is not very useful because as soon as the unwanted stimulus is removed, the negative behavior slowly comes back.

Term

What kind of therapy proposes that all of a client's issues could be identified as elements of a Triad.

 

(Triad-helps nurse understand the client's negative view of self in depression.)

Definition

Cognitive Therapy

 

 This therapy also helps Therapists works with the client to develop a problem list, gives client homework, and evaluates successes and failures

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