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53 Cards in this Set
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COMPENSATION
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Allows a person to overcome weakness and achieve success.
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COMPENSATION
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(A) A highschool student too small to play football becomes the star long distance runner for the track team.
(B) A physically challenged young man who is unable to participate in sports compensates by becoming a great scholar. |
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DENIAL
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Temporarily isolates a person from the full impact of a traumatic situation.
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DENIAL
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(A) A woman drinks alcohol everyday and cannot stop, failing to acknowledge she has a problem
(B) A woman though told her father has metastic cancer, continues to plan a family reunion 18 months away. |
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Catecholamines: Dobutamine: Applications
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-Shock
-Heart failure cardiac stress testing Inotropic but not chronotropic |
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DISPLACEMENT
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(A) A husband and wife are fighting, and the husband becomes so angry he hits a door instead of his wife.
(B) A child is mad at her mother for leaving for the day, but says she is really mad at the sitter for serving her food she does not like. |
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IDENTIFICATION
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Helps a person avoid self-devaluation; attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain attributes of an individual one admires.
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IDENTIFICATION
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(A) A student nurse imitates the nurturing behavior she observes on of her instructors using with clients.
(B) A teenager who required lengthy rehabilitation after an accident decides to become a physical therapist. |
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INTELLECTUALIZATION
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Helps protect a person from pain and traumatic events; attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated with a stressful situation by using logic, reasoning, and analysis.
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INTELLECTUALIZATION
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(A) A man whose brother is in ICU spends his time speaking to the nursing about his condition and treatment plan instead of visiting with his brother.
(B) A college professors fiancee breaks off the engagement. He shows no remorse, but instead tries to analyze the situation and figure out why she broke off the engagement. |
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INTROJECTION
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Internalization of the beliefs and values of another individual such that they symbolically become a part of the self to the extent that the felling of separeteness or distinctness is lost.
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INTROJECTION
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(A) A 7 year old tells his little sister "dont talk to strangers". He has introjected a value from the instructions of parents and teachers.
(B) A psychiatric client claims to be the Son of God, drapes himself in a sheet and blanket, performs miracles on other clients and refuses to respond unless addressed as Jesus. |
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ISOLATION
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Separating a thought or memory from the feeling tone or emotion associated with it
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ISOLATION
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(a) Without showing any emotion, a young woman describes being attacked and raped.
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MINIMIZATION
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Allows a person to decrease responsibility for own behavior; not acknowledging the significance of one’s own behavior
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MINIMIZATION
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(a) A person says “don’t believe everything my wife tells you. I wasn’t so drunk that I couldn’t drive.”
(b) A person says “I didn’t try to kill myself; I just took some pills because my head hurt.” |
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PROJECTION
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Allows a person to deny the existence of shortcomings and mistakes; protects self image
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PROJECTION
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(a) A mother is told that her child must repeat a grade in school and she blames this on the teacher’s poor instruction.
(b) A husband forgets to pay a bill and blames his wife for not giving to him earlier |
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RATIONALIZATION
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Helps a person cope with the inability to meet goals or certain Standards; attempting to make excuses to formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors
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RATIONALIZATION
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(a) A mother spanks her toddler too hard and says it was all right because he couldn’t feel it through the diapers anyway
(b) A man is rejected by his girlfriend, but explains to his friends that her leaving was best because she was beneath him socially and would not be liked by his family |
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REACTION FORMATION
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Aids in reinforcing repression by allowing feelings to be acted out in a more acceptable way; substituting behavior that is diametrically opposed to one’s own unacceptable thoughts or feelings
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REACTION FORMATION
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(a) A wife finds out about her husband’s extramarital affairs and tells her friends that she thinks his affairs are perfectly appropriate
(b) An executive resents his boss for calling in a consulting firm to make recommendations for change in his department but verbalizes complete support of the idea and is exceedingly polite and cooperative |
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REGRESSION
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Allows a person to return to a point in development when nurturing and dependency were needed and accepted with comfort
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REGRESSION
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(a) An adult throws a temper tantrum when he does not get his way
(b) A critically ill patient allows the nurse to bathe and feed him |
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REPRESSION
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Protects a person from a traumatic experience until he/she has the resources to cope; an unconscious mechanism by which threatening thoughts, feelings, and desires are kept from becoming conscious
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REPRESSION
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(a) A teenager, seeing his best friend killed in a car accident, becomes amnesic about the circumstances surrounding the accident
(b) A woman does not remember the experience of being raped in the basement, but does feel anxious when going into that house |
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SUBLIMATION
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Protects a person from behaving in an irrational, impulsive way; displacement of energy associated with primitive sexual or aggressive or anger drives into socially acceptable activities
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SUBLIMATION
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(a) A person with excessive, primitive sexual drives invests psychic energy into a well-defined religious value system
(b) A teenager with strong competitive and aggressive drives becomes the star football player on his high school teem |
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SUPPRESSION
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The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences From one’s awareness
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SUPPRESSION
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(a) Scarlett O’Hara says, “I don’t want to think about that now. I’ll think about that tomorrow.”
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SUBSTITUTION
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Helps a person achieve goals and minimizes frustration and Disappointment
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SUBSTITUTION
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(a) A woman wants to marry a man exactly like her dead father and settles for someone who looks a bit like him.
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UNDOING
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Allows a person to appease guilty feelings and atone for mistakes
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UNDOING
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(a) A father spanks his child and the next evening brings home a present for him.
(b) A teacher writes an easy examination, and then constructs a grading curve that makes it difficult to earn a high grade. |
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What is mental illness?
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Maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms, and interfere with the individual’s social, occupational, and/or physical functioning
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What is mental health?
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The 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
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GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME
1. In alarm reaction stage what is initiated? 2. In stage of resistance __ __ __ happens, and if it occurs then adaptation occurs and if it doesnt then you go to next stage. 3. In stage of exhaustion, the longer it last the more likely what will occur? |
1. physiological response
2. ego defense mechanism 3. death can occur |
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RESPONSES TO STRESS (ANXIETY)
1. Mild-is it good? what does it help us do? 2. Moderate-what diminishes? 3. Severe-perceptual field is diminished and can only concentrate on? 4. Panic-is the most intense |
1. yes, it motivates us
2. perceptual field 3. one thing 4. yes |
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MILD ANXIETY
1. What are some normal things that occur during this type? 2. You can __, __, and __ info readily. 3. Are you motivated to learn? |
1. Sleeping,crying, pacing, cursing, drinking, smoking, foot swinging, fidgetting, nail biting, finger tapping, talkative
2. see, hear and grasp 3. yes |
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MILD TO MODERATE ANXIETY
1. The ego defense mechanisms are used consciously or unconsciously as a ? 2. Focus on the __ concerns w/ a __ perceptual field 3. They block out things and may need to give what? |
1. protective device for the ego to relieve mild to moderate anxiety.
2. immediate, narrow 3. direct instructions |
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MODERATE TO SEVERE ANXIETY
1. At this level anxiety that remains unresolved over an extended period can contribute to ? 2. What can you physically feel at this level? |
1. physiological disorders
2. migraine HA, ulcers, stiff neck |
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SEVERE ANXIETY
1. What can extended periods of severe anxiety result in? 2. They can only focus on __ specific detail. 3. The behavior is directed toward relieving what? 4. You need to ___ them and help them focus on something else. |
1. psychoneurotic patterns of behaving
2. one 3. anxiety 4. redirect |
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NEUROSES
1. what is it? |
1. psychiatric disturbances characterized by excessive anxiety that is expressed directly or altered through defense mechanisms.
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1. What are some common characteristics of peope with neuroses?
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1. They are aware they are experiencing stress
2.They are aware their behaviors are maladaptive 3.They feel helpless to change their situation 4. The experience no loss of contact with reality |
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SEVERE ANXIETY
1. What are examples of anxiety disorders? 2. Somatoform disorders? 3. Dissociative disorders? |
1. phobias, OCD, panic disorders, GAD, PTSD
2. hypochondriasis, conversion disorder, somatization disorder, pain disorder 3. amnesia, fugue, DID, depersonalization disorder |
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PANIC ANXIETY
1. At this level an individual is not capable of processing what is happening in the environment and may lose _ w/ the environment. 2. Loss of __ thought. 3. Decrease or Increase in motor activity? 4. Can they do things w/ direction? |
1. contact
2. rational 3. decrease 4. no |
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PSYCHOSES-PANIC ANXIETY
1. What are some common characteristics? 2. What are some forms of psychoses? |
1. They exhibit minimal distress (emotional tone is flat)
2. They are unaware that behavior is maladaptive 3. They are unaware of any psychological problems 4. They are exhibiting a flight from reality in to a less stressful world 2. schizophrenia, schizoaffective, and delusional disorders |
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1. What are the 5 stages of grief?
2. What is anticipatory grief? 3. In the delayed maladaptive response you are fixed in what stage w/ no emotions? 4. In the distorted maladaptive response what stage are you fixed in? Can you perform ADL's? |
1. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
2. grief before it actually occurs 3. denial 4. anger, no |
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AXIS I
1. Includes all mental disorders except? examples? |
1. personality disorders and mental retardation; major depressive disorder and schizophrenia
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AXIS II
1. These disorders usually begin in __ or __ and persist in a stable form into adult life. 2. example? 3. Axis I and II constitute the classification of __ behavior. |
1. childhood or adolescent
2. Dependent person 3. abnormal |
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AXIS III
1. Includes any current general _ condition that is potentially relevant to the management of the mental disorder. 2. example? |
1. medical
2. diabetes |
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AXIS IV
1. ___ and environmental problems 2. These are problems that may affect the __, __, and __ of the mental disorders named on axes I and II. 2. examples? |
1. psychosocial
2. diagnoses, treatment, and prognosis 3. divorced 3 mths ago |
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AXIS V (Global Assessment of Functioning)
1. Gives an indication of the person's best level of psychological, social, and occupational functioning during? Rated on a scale of ? 2. w/ 1 being __ to self or others, and 100 being __ functioning. |
1. the preceding year, 1 - 100
2. danger, superior |