Psychosocial Integrity Questions And Answers 2022
Psychosocial Integrity - Answer - The ability of patients, families, and groups to meet the emotional, behavioral, and social demands of life. Essential elements of mental health - Answer - CALF FUSS 1. Change (being able to adapt and cope - resilience) 2. Act (in a situation as it requires, either alone or with others) 3. Leizure & work (being competent and effective at activities in both) 4. Fulfilling relationships (maintaining) 5. Fact v fiction (knowing what is real) 6. Uncertainty (being able to tolerate it) 7. Stress (being able to manage high levels of it - hardiness) 8. Self-esteem (maintaining) Mental health is... - Answer - Indespensable to personal well-being, family, and interpersonal relationships, and contribution to community or society. Mental Illness - Answer - All diagnosable mental disorders, which are health conditions characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior which include some type of distress and/or imparied functioning. Sigmund Freud - Answer - (and others) began to study, diagnose, and treat mental illness in the early 1900's. Psychotropic drugs - Answer - Commonly used in the 1950's. Made it possible to: - decrease symptoms such as agitation/anxiety/depression - Lower the length of hospital stay - Increase the number of patients being discharged back to their homes in the community. Deinstitutionalization - Answer - Began in 1963 with the Community Mental Health Act and is a deliberate shift from hospital treatment to community treatment. Movement initiated the treatment of mental illness in the least restricitve setting. Psychobiology - Answer - The study of the biological foundations of thought, emotion and behavior. A complex interplay between many factors such as genetics, environmental factors, breain chemistry and brain physiology. Neuron - Answer - Nerve cell. Specialized cells of the CNS. Axon (transmits impulses away from the cell body) Dendrites (transmit impulses toward the cell body) Cell body (soma) contains the nucleus Neurotransmission - Answer - Electrochemical messages between neurons. From dendrites, through cell body, down the axon and across the synapse between neurons.
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