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| State of well-being in which each individual is able to realize his or her own potential, cope with normal stresses of life, work productively, and make a contribution to the community. Provides people with the capacity for rational thinking, communication skills, learning, emotional growth, resilience, and self-esteem. |
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| Evolves over time. Shaped by the prevailing culture and societal values, and it reflects changes in cultural norms, society’s expectations, political climates, and even reimbursement criteria by third-party players. |
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| Conceptualized map of mental health and mental illness |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition |
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| A 1.5 inch thick manual that classifies 157 separate disorders; states that there is evidence suggesting that the symptoms and causes of a number of disorders are influenced by culture and ethnic factors |
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| The ability and capacity for people to secure the resources they need to support their well-being such as children of poverty and abuse seeking out trusted adults who provide them with the psychological and physical resources that allow them to excel |
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| Perception of mental health and illness |
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| • One problem with the distinction of mental workings being part of the physical being is that it implies that psychiatric disorders are all in the head and therefore under personal control and indistinguishable from a choice to indulge in bad behavior. |
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| - In which diathesis represets biological predisposition and stress represents environemental stress or trauma - is the most accepted explanation for mental illness. This nature plus nurture argument asserts that most psychiatric disorders result from a combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stessors |
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| The concept that some people, even those with the most serious illnesses such as schizophrenia, can recover |
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| Goals of the Human Genome Project |
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Identify the genes in human DNA
Determine the sequences of chemical base pairs that make up DNA
Store this information in databases
Improve the tools for data analysis
Address the ethical, legal, and social issues that may arise from the project |
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| The quantitative study of the distribution of mental disorders in human populations |
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| Having more than one mental disorder at a time |
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| The number of new cases of mental disorders in a healthy population within a given period of time |
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| The total number of cases, new and existing, in a given population during a specific period of time, regardless of when they became ill |
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| Broad field of study that examines health and illness at the population level |
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| Psychiatric mental health nursing focus |
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| Promoting mental health through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders. |
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| Phenomena of concern for psych nurses |
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Promotion of optimal mental and physical health and wellbeing and prevention of mental illness.
Impaired ability to function related to psych, emotional, and physiological distress.
Alterations in thinking, perceiving, and communicating due to psych disorders.
Behaviors and mental states that indicate potential dangers to self or others.
Emotional stress related to illness, pain, disability, and loss.
Symptom management, side effects, or toxicities associated with self-administered drugs, psychopharmacologic intervention.
The barriers to treatment efficacy and recovery posed by alcohol and substance abuse and dependence.
Self-concept and body image changes, developmental issues, life process changes, and end of life issues.
Physical symptoms that occur along with altered psych status.
Psych symptoms that occur along with altered psych status.
Interpersonal, organizational, sociocultural, spiritual, or environmental circumstances that have an effect on the mental and emotional well being of the individual and family.
Elements of recovery, including the ability to maintain housing, employment, and social support.
Societal factors such as violence, poverty, and substance abuse. |
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| Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) |
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| A comprehensive source of standardized outcomes, definitions of these outcomes and measuring scales that help to determine the outcome of nursing interventions. |
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| Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) |
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| Another tool used to standardize, define, and measure nursing care. |
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| Their sensitivity to different cultural view regarding health, illness, and response to treatment. |
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