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Concepts of Mental Health and Mental Illness Flashcards

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A change in activity of an organism in response to a stimulus

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Behavior

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A study of the biological and evolutionary bases for such changes. The idea that behaviors evolved as a result of the pressures of natural selection is not new.

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Behavioral Biology

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Consists of partners who do not have children

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Childless Family

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It involves any effort to decrease one’s stress response

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Coping

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They are patterns of behaving or thinking used by individual to protect self from threatening aspect s of the environment and from her/his own feeling of anxiety

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Defense Mechanisms

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are unconsciously use to protect a person from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts and feelings

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Defense Mechanisms

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Comprises two or more people who are either related by blood or marriage. They live in the same house with many other relatives like aunts, uncles, grandparents, or close family and friends

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Extended Family

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Are all about the functioning of a family in a good and bad situation. It also includes the ways of decision-making, problem solving, or even sharing their feelings.

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Family Dynamics

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It is characterized by unknown underlying cause or has no clear cut etiologic factor to account for the impairment because it is difficult to investigate brain function during life

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Functional Mental Illness

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When a grandparents raise their grandchildren.

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Grandparent Family

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It is a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and can contribute to his or her community

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Mental Health

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It is a health conditions marked by alterations in thinking, mood or behavior that causes distress and/or impair individual’s major functioning

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Mental Illness

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It is refers to a class of functional mental disorder involving distress but not delusion or hallucination, where behavior is not outside socially acceptable norms.

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Neurosis

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It is also known as psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder. No loss of reality testing

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Neurosis

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They are chemical substances that regulate numerous physical and emotional processes such as cognitive and mental performance, emotional states and pain response. Virtually all function in life are controlled by the

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Neurotransmitters

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is a disturbance caused by injury or disease affecting brain tissues as well as by chemical or hormonal abnormalities.

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Organic Mentall Illness

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Exposure to toxic materials, neurological impairment, or abnormal changes associated with aging can also cause these disorders

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Organic Mental Illness

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is characterized by loss of reality testing, altered thought process ad presence of psychotic manifestation such as hallucination and delusions

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Psychosis

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The ideal structure to raise children. It consists of two parents and children. Also known as the traditional family structure.

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Nuclear Family

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Consists of a single parent raising one or more children.

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Single Parents

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When two different families blend to form a unit. It may consist of a new husband or wife and children from their past relationships.

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Stepfamily

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The physical or behavioral characteristic of an organism that helps an organism to survive better in the surrounding environment.

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Adaptation

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Levels of Adaptation: Facing and finding solution to the situation

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Adaptive

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Levels of Adaptation: Use defense mechanisms temporarily

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Less Adaptive

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Levels of Adaptation: Use defense mechanisms excessively

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Maladaptive

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Levels of Adaptation: Defense mechanism is ineffective. ADL and social functions are affected

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Dysfunctional

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Involves any effort to decrease the stress response

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Coping

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Constructive coping mechanism when it is: (direct problem solving)

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Tasked oriented

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Constructive coping mechanism when it is: (regulate response to stress through the use of defense mechanism)

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Defense Oriented

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is defined as patterns of behaving or thinking used by an individual to protect himself from threatening aspects of his own environment or from his own feeling of anxiety

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Defense Mechanisms

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Persons who use these mechanisms are viewed as having virtues
Enhances the user a feeling of mastery and pleasure.

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Normal and adaptive mechanism

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Normal and adaptive mechanism: planning ahead for a realistic expectation

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Anticipation

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Normal and adaptive mechanism: making up for imagined handicapped or deficiency

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Compensation

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Normal and adaptive mechanism: reciprocal give and take necessary in many relationships

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Compromise

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Normal and adaptive mechanism: most constructive mechanism
rechanneling socially unacceptable behavior to a socially acceptable one

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Sublimation

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Normal and adaptive mechanism: seeing the lighter side of the situation

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Humor

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  • Most primitive mechanism
  • Usually used by children
  • Person who uses these defenses eliminate the need to cope with reality
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Narcissistic Defense Mechanism:

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Narcissistic Defense Mechanism: refusal to accept reality

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Denial

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Narcissistic Defense Mechanism: blaming others for unacceptable deeds or thoughts

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Projection

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Narcissistic Defense Mechanism: gratification of wishes through imagination

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Fantasy

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  • Seen in adolescence and some non-psychotic individual
  • Lessen distress and anxiety provoking situations
  • People who excessively use these defenses are seen as socially undesirable in that they are immature, difficult to deal with, and seriously out of touch to reality
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Immature Defense Mechanism

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Immature Defense Mechanism: transferring emotional conflict into physical symptoms

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Conversion

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Immature Defense Mechanism: Fabrication of an ailments

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Malingering

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Immature Defense Mechanism: psychosocial development ceased to advance

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Fixation

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Immature Defense Mechanism: returning to an earlier developmental stage

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Regression

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Immature Defense Mechanism: unconscious attempt to change oneself to resemble admired person

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Identification

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Immature Defense Mechanism: a type of identification in which the individual incorporates the traits or values of another to self

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Introjection

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Immature Defense Mechanism: Excessive reasoning to obscure real feeling

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Intellectualization

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Immature Defense Mechanism: Conscious or voluntary forgetting of unacceptable or painful

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Suppresion

50
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Immature Defense Mechanism: Person blocks feelings associated with unpleasant experience

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Isolation

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  • Seen in obsessive-compulsive, hysterical individual, and adults under stress
  • Have short-term advantage in coping
  • When used as one’s primary style of coping the world, it can cause long term problems in relationships and in enjoying life
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Neurotic Defense Mechanism

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Neurotic Defense Mechanism: releasing anger in a less threatening way

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Displacement

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Neurotic Defense Mechanism: blocking off anxiety provoking event from the conscious mind

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Dissociation

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Neurotic Defense Mechanism: taking something in place of the original goal

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Substitution

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Neurotic Defense Mechanism: justifying one’s behavior to make unacceptable feelings and behavior acceptable

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Rationalization

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Neurotic Defense Mechanism: acting out behaviors opposite to what one really feels

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Reaction Formation

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Neurotic Defense Mechanism: involuntary or unconscious forgetting unacceptable thoughts from conscious mind

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Repression

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Neurotic Defense Mechanism: engaging in a behavior that is considered to be opposite of a previous unacceptable behavior

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Undoing

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Occurs when the EVENT that is causing the ANXIETY is overwhelming and the usual coping patterns are suspended

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Crisis

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Types of Crisis: Normal part of growth and development

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Maturational Crisis

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Types of Crisis: Ex: leaving home for the first time, completing school, getting married, having a baby, beginning a career, accepting adult responsibility

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Maturational Crisis

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Types of Crisis: Unpredicted or sudden events that threaten the individual’s integrity

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Situational Crisis

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Types of Crisis: death of a loved one, loss of a job/job promotion, illness of a member of the family, migration, high school/college graduation

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Situational Crisis

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Types of Crisis: Unexpected unusual events that can affect an individual or a multitude of people

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Adventitious Crisis

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Stages of Crisis: initial reaction (shock & disbelief)

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Denial

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Stages of Crisis: the person recognizes the presence of a crisis, still functional

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Increased Tension

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Stages of Crisis: the person is preoccupied with the crisis, and functioning is affected

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Disorganization

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Stages of Crisis: the individual mobilizes previous coping mechanisms or acquire new ways of coping

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Attempts to reorganize

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Criteria of a Mental Health: P

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Positive attitude toward self

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Criteria of a Mental Health: R

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Reality Perception

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Criteria of a Mental Health: A

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Autonomous Behavior

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Criteria of a Mental Health: I

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Integrative Capacity

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Criteria of a Mental Health: S

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Self-actualization and personal growth

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Criteria of a Mental Health: E

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Environmental Mastery

75
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Classification of Mental Illness: It is characterized by loss of reality testing, altered thought process ad presence of psychotic manifestation such as hallucination and delusions

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Psychosis

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Classification of Mental Illness: It is refers to a class of functional mental disorder involving distress but not delusion or hallucination, where behavior is not outside socially acceptable norms. It is also known as psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder. No loss of reality testing

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Neurosis

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Classification of Mental Illness: It is characterized by unknown underlying cause or has no clear-cut etiologic factor to account for the impairment because it is difficult to investigate brain function during life.

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Functional

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Classification of Mental Illness: It is a disturbance caused by injury or disease affecting brain tissues as well as by chemical or hormonal abnormalities. Exposure to toxic materials, neurological impairment, or abnormal changes associated with aging can also cause these disorders

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Organic

79
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Compensatory Defense Mechanisms: implies that what is sincerely wanted is not worth trying after all

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Sour Graping

80
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Compensatory Defense Mechanisms: implies that a person tries to convince himself/herself that what he/she has is exactly what he want

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Sweet Lemon

81
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Compensatory Defense Mechanisms: conscious use of idea or object to represent another actual event or object

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Symbolism

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