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PNG-2254 Mental Health Exam 1 Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
Mental Heath - Ans:✔✔-The successful feelings Stressors from the internal or externalenviroments,
evidenced by thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
Mental illness - Ans:✔✔-Maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment,
evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms
and interfere with the individual's social, occupational, or physical functioning. culture does impact how
people view mental illness.
Maslow identified - Ans:✔✔-A "hierarchy of needs"
Self-actualization as fulfillment of one's highest potential and reflection.
Response to stress - Ans:✔✔-Anxiety and greif can contribute to mental illness.
What are the two types of responses to stress. - Ans:✔✔-Physical and psychological.
Physical espouse to stress - Ans:✔✔-Fight or flight syndrome (immediate vs sustained response).
Immediate Response (physical) - Ans:✔✔-Increase heart rate, respirations
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Substained physical response. - Ans:✔✔-Promotes susceptibility to diseases of adaptation.
Seles general adaptation syndrome (physical response) - Ans:✔✔-Alarm reaction stage (fight or flight)
Stage of resistance
Stage of exhaustion
Psychological Responses - Ans:✔✔--Anxiety and grief have been described as two major, primary
psychological response patterns to stress.
-A variety of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are associated with each of these response patterns.
-Adaptation is determined by the extent to which the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interfere with an
individual's functioning.
Peplau's four levels of anxiety - Ans:✔✔-mild, moderate, severe, panic
Mild: seldom a problem.
Moderate: preceptual feild begins to disminish
severe:
Panic:
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Anxiety - Ans:✔✔-A diffuse apprehension that is vague in nature and is associated with feelings of
uncertainty and helplessness.
Mild anxiety - Ans:✔✔-Is adaptive and can provide motivation for survival.
Individuals employ various coping mechanisions to with stress. deal
What are defense mechanisms? - Ans:✔✔-mental processes that protect individuals from strong or
stressful emotions and situations
Moderate to severe anxiety - Ans:✔✔-Anxiety at this level that remains unresolved over an extended
period of time can contribute to a number of physiological disorders.
Measurable pathophysiology can be demonstrated.For headache. example,
Panic level of anxiety - Ans:✔✔-Extended periods of functioning at the panic level of anxiety may resort
in Psychotic behaviour - schizophrenic disorders.
Grief - Ans:✔✔-Is a subjective state of emotional, physical, and social response to the loss of valued
Entity.
5 stages of grief - Ans:✔✔-1. Denial
2. Anger
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