Chapter 29 Caring For Persons With Mental Health Disorders

Question 1

Anxiety

Answer 1

A vague, uneasy feeling in response to stress

Question 2

Compulsion

Answer 2

Repeating an act over and over again a ritual

Question 3

Defense mechanism

Answer 3

And unconscious reaction that blocks unpleasant or threatening feelings

Question 4

Delusion

Answer 4

A false belief

Question 5

Delusion of grandeur

Answer 5

And exaggerated believe about one’s importance, wealth, power, or talents

Question 6

Flashback

Answer 6

Reliving a trauma and thoughts during the day and then nightmares during sleep

Question 7

Hallucination

Answer 7

Seeing, hearing, smelling, or feeling something that is not real

Question 8

Mental

Answer 8

Relating to the mine; something that exists in the mind or is done by the mind

Question 9

Mental health

Answer 9

The person copes with and adjust to every day stresses in ways excepted by society

Question 10

Mental health disorder

Answer 10

A disturbance in the ability to cope with or adjust to stress; behavior and function are impaired; mental illness, psychiatric disorder

Question 11

Mental illness

Answer 11

Mental health disorder

Question 12

Obsession

Answer 12

A current, unwanted thought, idea, or image

Question 13

Paranoia

Answer 13

A diss order of the mind false beliefs and suspicion about a person or situation

Question 14

Panic

Answer 14

And intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, tear, or dread

Question 15

Phobia

Answer 15

An intense fear

Question 16

Psychiatric disorder

Answer 16

Mental health disorder

Question 17

Stress

Answer 17

The response to change in the body caused by an emotional, physical, social, or economic factor

Question 18

Suicide

Answer 18

To kill oneself

Question 19

Suicide contagion

Answer 19

Exposure to suicide or suicidal behaviors within one’s family, once peer group, or media reports of suicide

Question 20

Withdrawal syndrome

Answer 20

The person’s physical and mental response after stopping or severely reducing the use of a substance that was regularly use