Psych Key Terms Ch1-12

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Mental Health

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successful performance of mental functions, resulting in the ability to engage in productive activities, enjoy fulfilling relationships and change or cope with adversity

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Mental Illness

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considered a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome experienced by a person marked by distress, disability or risk of suffering disability or loss of freedom

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Mental Disorder

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Medical disease that can be identified alomg a mental heatlh continuum

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DSM-IV-TR

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4th Ed Text Revision focuses on research and clinical observation when constructing diagnostic categories for a discrete mental disorder

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Psychiatry's Definition of normal

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changes over time and reflects changes in cultural norms society's expectations and values professional biases individual differences and the political climate

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Epidemiology

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the quantitative study of the distribution of mental disorders in human populations

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Clinical Epidemiology

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a broad field that addresses what happens to people with illnesses who are seen by providers of clinical care

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Prevalence Rate

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the proportion of a population with a mental sidorder at a given time

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Biologically based mental Illness

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mental disorder caused by neurotransmitter dysfunction abnormal brain structure inherited genetic factors or other biological causes

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distress

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painful symptom

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disability

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impairment with one or more important areas of functioning

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runing amok

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usually a male runs around engaging in furious almost indiscriminate violent behavior

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pibloktoq

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uncontrollable desire to tear off your clothes and expose yourself in severe winter weather

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conscious mind

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contains all of the material that a person is aware of at any one time

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Preconscious

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just below the surface of awareness

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Unconscious

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all repressed memories passions and unacceptable urges lying deep below the surface

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id

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the source of all drives, instincts,reflexes,needs genetic inheritance and capacity to respond,as well as, all the wishes that motivate us.

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ego

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develops because the needs wishes and demands of the id can not be satisfactorily met through primary processes and reflex action emerges in 4th or 5th month of life. problem solver and reality tester

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Super ego

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the moral component of personality

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defense mechanisms

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wards off anxiety by preventing conscious awareness of threatining feelings

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Security Operations

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used to defend oneself against anxiety and ensure self esteem makeup the self system

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Conditioning

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pairing behavior with a condition that reinforces or diminishes the behaviors occurence

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Operant Conditioning

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the manipulation of selected reinforcers to elicit and strenghten desired behavioral responses.

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Reinforcer

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refers to the consequence of behavior and is defined as anything that increases the occurence of a behavior

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Positive Reinforcement

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increases the likelihood that the behavior will be repeated

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transference

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developed when the client experiences feelings toward the nurse or therapist that were originally held toeard significant others in his or her life

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Countertransference

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the health care workers unconscious and personal response to the client

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy

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oriented more to the here and now less attempt is made to reconstruct the developmental origins of conflicts

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Short term dynamic psychotherapy

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the duration of therapy is ten sessions or fewer

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Interpersonal psychotherapy

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psychotherapy that focuses on reasurrance clarification of feeling states improvement of interpersonal communication and improvement of interpersonal skills rather than on personality reconstruction

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cognitive therapy

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active directive time-limited structured approach used to treat a variety of psychiatric disorders

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behavioral therapy

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based on the assumption that changes in maladaptive behavior can occur without insight into the underlying cause.

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modeling

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therapist provides a role model for specific clietn behaviors and the client learns through imitation

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Systematic Desensitization

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behvior modification therapy that develops behavioral tasks customized to the clients specific fears presented while client is using relazation techniques

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Aversion therapy

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akin to punishment used to treat sexual deviation, shoplifting, hallucinations, violent and aggressive behavior and self mutilation

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milieu therapy

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use of the total environment to treat disturbed children

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phenomena of concern

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scope of psychiatric mental health nursing

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psychiatric nursing

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the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential mental health problems

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telehealth

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health care provided from a distance telephone consultation and triage