NU401 Exam 1 With Complete
Solution
How has COVID impacted mental health disorders? - Answer Increased them quite a bit
anxiety: 8->25%
depression: 6.5->24%
Suicidal ideaiton: 4->10%
What concepts defines mental health and mental illness - Answer cultural concepts
what responses do people have from stress? - Answer psychological and physical
Maslow. What did he do? - Answer Established the hierarchy of needs and
self-actualization as fulfillment of one's highest potential
Define mental health - Answer "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
Identify the two elements that Horwitz describes of how individuals view mental illness -
Answer incomprehensibility and cultural relativity
incomprehensability - Answer the inability of the general population to understand the
motivation behind the behavior
define cultural relativity - Answer the "normality" of behavior is determined by the
culture
when someone has mental illness, they have maladaptive response to stressors,
interfering with... - Answer social, occupational, and physical functioning
What is stress according to Hans Selye? - Answer -"fight-or-flight" syndrome
-the state manifested by a specific syndrome which consists of all the nonspecifically
induced changes within a biological system
Selye's general adaptation syndrome stages: - Answer - alarm reaction stage
- stage of resistance
-stage of exhaustion
fight or flight syndrome is associated with 2 responses - Answer the immediate and
sustained responses
Disorder of adaptation that causes discomfort and apprehension r/t to fear of impending
, danger - Answer anxiety
-can be unaware of source of anxiety
- extremely common in our society
Peplau's Four Levels of Anxiety - Answer Mild: seldom a problem
Moderate: perceptual field begins to diminish
Severe: perceptual field diminishes greatly
Panic: the most intense state
How do people adapt to mild levels of anxiety - Answer eating
drinking
sleeping
physical exercise
mild-moderate anxiety adaptations - Answer ego defense mechanisms (all the big words
that need a definition)
What do sustained levels of moderate to severe anxiety over an extended period of time
cause? - Answer physiological disorders and repressing severe anxiety can cause
psychoneurotic patterns of behaviors
what results in psychosis - Answer extended periods of panic level of anxiety
ethics - Answer a branch of philosphy that deals with distinguishing right from wrong
bioethics - Answer ethics in reference to the scope of medicine, nursing and allied
health
moral behavior - Answer conduct that results from critical thinking about how
individuals should treat others
values - Answer personal beliefs about what is important and desirable
values clarification - Answer a process of self-exploration by which people identify and
rank their own personal values
right - Answer a valid, legaly recognized claim or entitlement encompassing both
freedom from government interference or discriminatory treatment and entitlement to a
benefit or service
absolute right - Answer when ther is no restriction whatsoever on the individuals
entitlement
legal right - Answer a right that society has agreed upon and formalized into low
Solution
How has COVID impacted mental health disorders? - Answer Increased them quite a bit
anxiety: 8->25%
depression: 6.5->24%
Suicidal ideaiton: 4->10%
What concepts defines mental health and mental illness - Answer cultural concepts
what responses do people have from stress? - Answer psychological and physical
Maslow. What did he do? - Answer Established the hierarchy of needs and
self-actualization as fulfillment of one's highest potential
Define mental health - Answer "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
Identify the two elements that Horwitz describes of how individuals view mental illness -
Answer incomprehensibility and cultural relativity
incomprehensability - Answer the inability of the general population to understand the
motivation behind the behavior
define cultural relativity - Answer the "normality" of behavior is determined by the
culture
when someone has mental illness, they have maladaptive response to stressors,
interfering with... - Answer social, occupational, and physical functioning
What is stress according to Hans Selye? - Answer -"fight-or-flight" syndrome
-the state manifested by a specific syndrome which consists of all the nonspecifically
induced changes within a biological system
Selye's general adaptation syndrome stages: - Answer - alarm reaction stage
- stage of resistance
-stage of exhaustion
fight or flight syndrome is associated with 2 responses - Answer the immediate and
sustained responses
Disorder of adaptation that causes discomfort and apprehension r/t to fear of impending
, danger - Answer anxiety
-can be unaware of source of anxiety
- extremely common in our society
Peplau's Four Levels of Anxiety - Answer Mild: seldom a problem
Moderate: perceptual field begins to diminish
Severe: perceptual field diminishes greatly
Panic: the most intense state
How do people adapt to mild levels of anxiety - Answer eating
drinking
sleeping
physical exercise
mild-moderate anxiety adaptations - Answer ego defense mechanisms (all the big words
that need a definition)
What do sustained levels of moderate to severe anxiety over an extended period of time
cause? - Answer physiological disorders and repressing severe anxiety can cause
psychoneurotic patterns of behaviors
what results in psychosis - Answer extended periods of panic level of anxiety
ethics - Answer a branch of philosphy that deals with distinguishing right from wrong
bioethics - Answer ethics in reference to the scope of medicine, nursing and allied
health
moral behavior - Answer conduct that results from critical thinking about how
individuals should treat others
values - Answer personal beliefs about what is important and desirable
values clarification - Answer a process of self-exploration by which people identify and
rank their own personal values
right - Answer a valid, legaly recognized claim or entitlement encompassing both
freedom from government interference or discriminatory treatment and entitlement to a
benefit or service
absolute right - Answer when ther is no restriction whatsoever on the individuals
entitlement
legal right - Answer a right that society has agreed upon and formalized into low
