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Understanding the client in a holistic sense;
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A general theory that explains psychopathology using a multi-causational systems approach.
Most accepted explanation for mental illness.
"Diathesis" represents biological disposition and "Stress" represents environmental stress or trauma |
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| Implications for the "Diathesis-Stress Model" |
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| This nature-PLUS-nurture argument asserts that most psychiatric disorders result from a combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors. |
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| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs |
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| a state of well-being in which individuals function within society and are able to respond to routine stress |
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| a disturbance in an individual's thinking, emotions, behaviors, and physiology; marked by distress, disability or risk of suffering disability |
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| a heightened consciousness and analytic grasp of how race and ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, social class and status, religion and spirituality, age and developmental stage. as well as physical or mental abilities affect the lives of people and their environments. |
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| Does all behavior have meaning? |
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The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy
a major coping strategy for dealing with life's anxieties |
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| Mental Health-Illness Continuum |
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| A conceptual line used to represent levels of mental health and mental illness that vary from person to person and vary for a particular person over time |
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| The Essence of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing |
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| *refer to "1 Intro to Psych" for the 18 statements. |
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