Chapter 2 Flashcards
Not just the absence of illness; it is also the presence of many positive characteristics. Encompasses several aspects of health and wellness- emotional, psychological, cognitive, interpersonal, and spiritual aspects of a person’s life. The capacity to respond to challenges in ways that allow continued growth and forward movement in life.
Mental health
The key to mental health and happiness is the ability to respond to adversity is what ways?
Adaptive and effective ways
This type of person is able to deal with life’s inevitable challenges without becoming impaired or overwhelmed by them. Have high self-esteem, accept imperfections within themselves and others, altruistic (help others), and have control over their own lives.
Mentally healthy person
Focuses is on positive emotions, character strengths, and conditions that create happiness, rather than focusing on mental illness and problems. It focuses on what makes life worth living. Studying gratitude, forgiveness, awe, inspiration, hope, curiosity, humor, and happiness to understand the spectrum of the human experience.
Positive Psychology
He believed that if people meet their needs for survival, safety, and security, love and belonging, achievement and self esteem, they have opportunities for self-exploration and expression that can lead them to reach their fullest human potential.
Abraham Maslow
Who developed the concept of self-actualization or also called the “hierarchy of needs”?
Abraham Maslow
Maslow believed that a self- actualized person is realistic, self-accepting, self-motivated, creative, and capable of intimacy, among other traits. Those who reach this level achieve a state of what?
Transcendence
A sense of well-being that comes from finding purpose and meaning in life.
Transcendence
The general expectation that things will turn out well. Tendency to see problems as temporary rather than permanent. Seem to have better physical and mental health than pessimistic people. React to failures as things they can do something about.
Optimistic
The state attained when a person has reached his or her full potential.
Self-actualization
Sense that we have some control over what happens in our lives.
self-efficacy
Ability to bounce back from adversity. People who can respond flexibly to life’s challenges and redirect their energies toward positive actions.
Example: A poor grade on one exam might motivate you to study harder.
Resilience
Focuses on what makes life worth living. Has 3 components: positive emotions, pleasure, engagement, and meaning.
Happiness
Argued that such qualities as self-awareness, self-discipline, persistence, and empathy are much more important to success in life than IQ. Believes in emotional intellegence.
Daniel Goleman
An understanding of emotional experience, self-awareness, and sensitivity to others. AN ability to manage ones own emotions and control their moods and recognize emotions in others. People with this form of intelligence have more positive relationships, perform better academically, have more adaptive decision making skills, and tend to be mentally healthy.
emotional intellegence
Who Published On Death of Dying, one of the first books to propose stages that people go through when they believe they are in the process of dying or losing a loved one?
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Part of the brain where the executive function of planning, organizing, and rational thinking are controlled. Does not start growing until teen years and stops growing in early -mid twenties. This explains impulsivity, emotional reactivity, and risk taking behavior more seen in adolescence.
Frontal cortex
These are caused by complex interactions of biological factors, psychological processes, social influences, and cultural factors, especially those affecting a person during early childhood. A pattern of behavior in an individual that is associated with distress (pain) or disability or with increased risk of suffering, death, pain, or loss of freedom.
Mental disorders
