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41 Cards in this Set
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Health
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the ever-changing process of achieving individual potential in physical, social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and environmental dimensions.
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What Influences Your Health?
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Individual behavior, biology and genetics, social factors, policymaking, health services, and health disaparities.
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Psychological Health
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the sum of how we think, feel, relate, and exist in our day-to-day lives.
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What are the dimensions of psychological health?
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mental, emotional, social, and spiritual.
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What are Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
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Self-Actualization, Esteem Needs, Social Needs, Security Needs, and Survival Needs.
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Factors that Influence Psychological Health
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Family, Social Supports, Community, Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem, Personality, and Life-Span and Maturity
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Strategies to Enhance Our Psychological Health
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Find a support group, complete required tasks, form realistic expectations, make time for you, maintain physical health, examine problems and seek help when necessary, and get adequate sleep.
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Mental illnesses
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disorders disrupt thinking, feeling, moods, and behaviors, and varying degrees of impaired functioning in daily living
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Mood Disorders
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Dysthymic Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Seasonal Affective Disorders(SAD)
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Anxiety Disorders
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Generalized Anxiety Disorders(GAD), Panic Disorders, Phobic Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders(OCD), and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Personality Disorders
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Schizophrenia, which is the alternations of the senses including auditory and visual hallucinations.
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Stress
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the mental and psychical response and adaption by our bodies to the real and perceived changes and challenges in our lives
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Stressors
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these are what causes stress
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homeostasis
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the body's well-balanced psychological state; this is when stress level is low
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General Adaptive Syndrome(GAS)
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the pattern followed in the psychological response to stress, consisting of the alarm, resistance, and exhaustion phases.
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Stress Responses
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Heart rate and blood pressure increases, salivation decreases, hearing ability increases, muscle tense, etc,
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Symptoms of Stress
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Headaches, Dry mouth, migraines, fatigue, etc
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Ways to prevent stress.
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Eat Healthy, get enough sleep, exercise regularly learn to relax,
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Sleep
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a readily reversible state of reduced responsiveness to, and interaction with, the environment
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NREM
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rapid eye movement doesnt occur
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REM
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rapid eye movement occurs
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Violence
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a set of behavior that produces injuries; as well as the outcomes of these behaviors
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Intentional Injuries
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injury, death, or psychological harm caused by violence with the intent to harm. ex assaults, homicide, suicide, etc
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unintentional injuries
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injury, death, or psychological harm caused unintentionally, often as a result of circumstances. ex car accidents, fires, and drowning
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Factors contributing to violence
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poverty, unemployment, parental influences, cultural beliefs, discrimination or oppression, stress, heavy substance use, etc
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What makes people prone to violence
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Anger, which includes primary and reactive aggression and substance abuse
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Intentional Injuries
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hate and bias-motivated crimes, gang violence, terrorism, domestic violence
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Sexual assault
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any act in which one person is sexually intimate with another person without that person's consent
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rape
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sexual penetration without the victim's consent
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aggravated rape
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rape that involves one or multiple attackers, strangers, weapons, or physical beating
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simple rape
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rape by one person, usually known to the victim, that does not involve a physical beating or use of a weapon
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acquaintance rape
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any rape in which the rapist is known to the victim. a term that replaces the term date rape
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sexual harassment
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any form of unwanted sexual attention related to any condition of employment or performance evaluation
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stalking
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the willful, repeated, and malicious following, harassing, or threatening of another person
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Social Contributors to sexual violence
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minimization, trivialization, blaming the victim, pressure to be macho, male socialization, male misconceptions, and situational factors.
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Strategies for preventing intentional injuries
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self-defense against personal assault and rape in which one speak in a strong voice, maintain eye contact, and stand up straight, act confident, and remain alert.
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unintentional injuries
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vehicle safety and cycling safety
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Addiction
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continued involvement with a substance or activity despite its ongoing negative consequences
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Signs of addiction
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compulsion, loss of control, negative consequences, and denial
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Drug
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are chemicals other than food that are intended to affect the structure or function of the mind or the body through chemical action
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Type of Drugs
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Prescription drugs, OTC drugs, Recreational Drugs, Herbal preparations, Illicit(illegal) drugs
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