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Refers to the ability to recognize the nature of one’s own behavior, attitude, and emotions.
Self Awareness
It can be an effective tool when interacting with clients who are exhibiting anxiety, depression, confusion, or psychosis.
Self Awareness
Outgoing person who relates more easily to people and things in the environment.
Extrovert
Likes to take charge of situations.
Extrovert
Has little difficulty in socializing.
Extrovert
Quiet individual who relates better to the inner world of ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
Introvert
Prefer to be a follower, and usually lets others initiate and direct interaction.
Introvert
Open-minded Attitude
Do not make decisions until they are aware of all facts pertaining to a certain situation.
Are often inflexible.
Judgemental Attitude
Run the risk of neglecting the perception of others.
Judgemental Attitude
Arriving at an opinion based on their own values without enough facts or enough regards for what other people may feel or think.
Judgemental Attitude
Encounter patients with mental and emotional problems.
Psychiatric Nursing
To provide effective care for any patient, you must consider both ______ and _____ aspects of health.
psychological and physiological
Pioneer in stress research
Hans Selye
Found a link between the environment and biological response
Hans Selye
Noted that emotional and physical stress because a pattern of response that unless treated, leads to infection, illness, disease and eventually death.
Hans Selye
This set of response is called?
General adaptation syndrome
What are the three stages?
- Alarm reaction
- Resistance
- Exhaustion
During this stage, any type of physical or mental trauma triggers immediate biological responses designed to counteract stress.
Alarm stage
Begins when the body starts to adapt to prolonged stress.
Resistance
With chronic stress, adoptive mechanisms eventually wear down, and the body can no longer meet the demands of stress.
Exhaustion
Some researchers attribute today’s seemingly increased incidence of mental and emotional disorders to social changes that have altered the traditional family structure and contributed to loss of the extended family.
Social Factor
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American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Education, Text Revision
Give at least one of the following criteria of American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Education, Text Revision
Current distress ( a painful symptom)
Disability ( an impairment in one or more important areas of functioning)
A significantly greater risk of suffering, death pain, and disability.
An important loss of freedom.