MH Intro

Question 1

Cultural implications for mental health

Answer 1

Behavior is considered as normal or abnormal according to ones culture or social norms

Question 2

Mental health

Answer 2

Successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are age appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms

Question 3

Mental illness

Answer 3

Defined as maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidence by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms, and interfere with the individuals social, occupational and/or physical functioning

Question 4

Maslows hierarchy of needs

Answer 4

Self-actualization: desire to become the most that one can be
Esteem: respect, self-esteem, status, recognition, strength, freedom
Love and Belonging: friendship, intimacy, family, sense of connection
Safety needs: person security, employment, resources, health, property
Physiological needs: air, water, food, shelter, sleep, clothing, reproduction

Question 5

Stress

Answer 5

Fight or flight response in the body
1. Alarm
- activating
2. Stage of resistance
- physiological responses to attempt to adapt to the stressor
3. Stage of exhaustion
- prolonged exposure to the stressor. Unable to continue to compensate.

Question 6

Physical response to stress

Answer 6

Sustained physical responses to stress occur after a prolonged period of stress and promotes susceptibility to many diseases of adaptation
- headache
- palpitations
- confusion
- dread
- impaired attention and concentration

Question 7

Anxiety

Answer 7

Feeling of discomfort and apprehension related to fear of impending dangers. Individuals may be unaware of the source of their anxiety, which is often accompanied by feelings of uncertainty and helplessness

Question 8

Levels of anxiety

Answer 8

Low
- adaptive and can provide motivation required for survival
- often able to use coping skills or or behaviors to prevent escalation
Moderate
- unresolved for long periods of time can lead to psychological disorders. This can also result in interference of treatment of a medical condition
- moderate anxiety motivates us
High
- often is interfering with the individuals ability to function
- extended periods of functioning at the panic level of anxiety may result in psychosis
- ex: schizophrenia, schizoaffective, and delusional disorders

Question 9

Coping skills

Answer 9

Crying, nail biting, daydreaming, eating, drinking, foot swinging, fidgeting, laughing, sleeping, exercise, etc.

Question 10

Ego Defense Mechanisms

Answer 10

Denial, displacement, identification, isolation, projection, rationalization, regression, repression, suppression, undoing, etc.

At a mild to mod level, the strength of the ego is tested

Ego defense mechanisms are employed for protection

Question 11

Adaptation responses on a continuum of anxiety

Answer 11

Mild ->moderate -> severe -> panic
Coping -> ego defense -> psycho-physiological -> psychoneurotic -> psychotic

Question 12

Grief

Answer 12

A subjective state of sorrow and sadness accompanied by emotional, physical, and social response to the loss of a loved person or thing
- loss may be real or perceived
- not mourning can be maladaptive

Question 13

Anticipated loss

Answer 13

-Can trigger a grief response
- thought to shorten the grief response when the loss actually occurs

Question 14

Five stages of grief

Answer 14

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance