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| Top Health Issues Facing College Students |
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| STI's, Pregnancy, Sexual Violence, Mental Health, Nutrition |
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1. Heart Disease
2. Cancer
3. Strokes
4. Pulmonary Disease
5. Unintentional Injury
6. Diabetes Mellitus |
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| Top Causes of Death Under 80 |
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1. Cancer
2. Heart Disease
3. Injury
4. Pulmonary
5. Unintentional Injury
6. Diabetes |
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| Characteristics of Healthy Lifestyle |
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| Sleep Schedule, Well-Balanced Diet, Stress Management, Personal Hygene, Exercise, Regular Checkups/Health Knowledge, Limited Substance Abuse, Personal Relationships |
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| "The state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not just the absence of disease and infirmity" -WHO |
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| Broadest view of Health, achievement of high-level wellness including (physical, emotional, social, spiritual, occupational, and intellectual) |
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| World Health Organization (WHO) 3 Principles of Health |
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| Physical, Emotional, Social |
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| Physical Health Characteristics |
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1. Susceptibility to Disease
2. Power of Recuperation
3. Body Weight
4. Visual Acuity
5. Strength, Endurance, Coordination |
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| Emotional Health Characteristics |
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1. Stress Management
2. Resolve Conflict
3. Being-Flexible
4. Take Life in Stride |
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| Social Health Characteristics |
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1. Social Skills
2. Making Friends/Friendships
3. Developing Peer Support Group/System |
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| Intellectual Health Characteristics |
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1. Ability to take info and apply it
2. Ability to make "Right" decisions
3. Healthy vs. Harmful |
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| Spiritual Health Characteristics |
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1. Religious Beliefs
2. Relationships to living things
3. WIllingness to serve others
4. Practice Golden Rule
5. Search for Meaning in Life |
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| Spiritual Health Characteristics |
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1. Religious Beliefs
2. Relationships to living things
3. WIllingness to serve others
4. Practice Golden Rule
5. Search for Meaning in Life |
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| Occupational Health Characteristics |
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1. Employment Satisfaction
2. Experiencing adequate rewards (salary)
3. Experiencing adequate social interaction
4. Ability to provide creative expression and input into your work |
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1. Teaching ways and means of improving health to live longer with fewer health problems.
2. Reduction of Morbidity/Mortality |
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| Risk-Prevention-Intervention |
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| Programs that help associate behavior with health risks |
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| Prochasta 6 Stages to Change Health Behavior (1994) |
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Pre-Contemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Termination |
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| Think about it, desire isn't there |
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| Think about it and have desire |
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| think, desire, and recognize it is possible (derive a plan) |
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| 3-6 months making the change (implementation sequence) |
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| Still Consciously making the change after 6 months |
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| Emotional Wellness (Ch. 2) |
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1. Express Emotion
2. Cope with Stress
3. Deal with adversity and success
4. Adapt to Changes |
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| Self-Esteem, Supportive Relationships, Develop good communication skills, manage conflict, develop Positive Mental Attitude, deal with stress in positive ways |
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| ***Characteristics of Mentally Healthy Person*** |
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1. Comfortable with oneself
2. Comfortable with interaction w/ others
3. Able to meet the demands of life |
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| ***Improving Self-Esteem*** |
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1. Maintain Satisfying Relationships
2. Set and Reach realistic goals
3. Realize your uniqueness
4. Maintain contact with a mentor |
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| Improve Interactions with Others |
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1. Feel Comfortable with others
2. Give/Receive Love
3. Interpersonal relationships
4. Not Just Self-Serving |
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| ***Ways to Meet Demands of Life*** |
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1. Plan Ahead without fear of the future
2. Resolve Problems
3. Accept Responsibility
4. Set Realistic Goals |
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1. Mood Disorders
2. Anxiety Disorders
3. ADHD
4. Schizophrenia |
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| Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder |
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1.Mood changes as the seasons do
2. Treated with counseling, light therapy, and anti-depressants |
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1. Alternates between depression and mania
2. Excessive energy, speech, reckless
3. Treated with mood-stabilizing drugs and psychotherapy |
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| feelings of sadness that are unrealistic in nature |
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| Characteristics of Depression |
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| Exaggerated feelings of sadness, melancholy, dejection, worthlessness, emptiness, hopelessness, feelings that are inappropriate and out of proportion to reality |
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1. 1/4 people in U.S. face major symptoms
2. 1/3 Seek Help
3. 30-40% of College students report cases |
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| Persistent bad moods, pessimism, loss of interest of things once loved, sleep or eating disorders, substance abuse, restlessness, irritability, lack of energy, thoughts of death/suicide, deterioration of personal appearance |
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1. Secondary/reactive depression
2. Primary Depression
3. Major (manic) depression |
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| Reactive, when depression develops after an emotional event of period of difficulty (death in family) |
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1. When depression beings for no apparent reason, no emotional event or trauma can be identified
2. Usually caused by a change in brain chemistry (serotonine, norepinephrine) |
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| Major Depressoin (Dysthymia) |
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Duration and depth of dejection, worthlessness, hopelessness, is incapacitating
2. Chronic periods of feeling blue |
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| Drug Therapy, Psychotherapy, home remedies, exercise and endorphins, and Electro Compulsive Shock (ECT) |
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1. Irrational fear (GAD)
2. Free-Flowing Anxiety
3. Panic Disorder
4. O.C.D. |
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| Difficulty getting organized, chronic procrastination, frequently searching for high stimulus, low tolerance for frustration, low self esteem |
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| Personality deterioration, delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, catatonic behavior, dysfunction in everyday routines) |
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1. 24 Hour Hotlines
2. Mental Health Facilities
3. Public Health Departments
4. Hospitals |
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| Alarm-Resistance-Exhaustion |
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| cognitive restructuring (making a change for the better) |
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| Coping with Stress (4 ways) |
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| Physical, Social, Environmental, Psychological |
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| Physical Stress Management |
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| Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep |
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| Physical Stress Management |
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| Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep |
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1. Make time to have fun and play
2. Laughter is effective
3. Human contact through social connections
4. Pets are associated with reduction in stress |
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| Environmental Stress Management |
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1. Reduce Noise Levels
2. Amount of Natural Light
3. Meaningful and challenging experiences
4. Aesthetic quality of inhabited space (color, plants, photos, smell) |
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Connections between stress and immune system (Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion)
*Immunizations are less effective when you are stressed |
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| Personality Traits (A, B, C) |
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A- Time conscious, deadline oriented
B- Laid back, calm
C- Anger, hostility, cynical, over-aggressive |
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| Self Hypnosis, progressive muscle relaxation, yoga, diaphragmatic breathing, biofeedback, exercise, art concept therapy, mediation, visualization |
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