RASMUSSEN MENTAL HEALTH STUDY GUIDE
PACKAGE FEATURING SOLVED QUESTIONS
AND FULL SOLUTION
◉ Mental health. Answer: Successful performance of mental
functions, resulting in the ability to engage in productive activities,
enjoy fulfilling relationships, adapt to change, and cope with
adversity.
Mental health is the foundation of thinking, communication skills,
learning, emotional growth, resilience, and self-esteem throughout the
life span.
It is a STATE OF WELL-BEING in which individuals are able to
realize their abilities as well as contribute to their community within
the context of life stressors.
◉ Mental illness. Answer: Actual diagnoses, gets in the way of
obtaining mental health.
Medical conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, mood,
ability to relate to others, and daily functioning. Basically, mental
illness can be seen as the result of flawed biological, psychological, or
social processes.
,Fortunately mental illnesses are treatable, and individuals can
experience symptom relief, and complete cure in some cases, with
treatment and support.
◉ Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Answer: Needs are placed
conceptually on a pyramid, with the most basic and important needs
on the lower level.
The higher levels, the more distinctly human needs, occupy the top
sections of the pyramid. According to Maslow, when lower level
needs are met, higher level needs are able to emerge.
**Physiological needs first, safety second
◉ Physiological needs. Answer: Food, water, oxygen, elimination,
rest, and sex
◉ Safety needs. Answer: Security, protection, stability, structure,
order, and limits.
◉ Love and belonging needs. Answer: Affiliation, affectionate
relationships, and love
◉ Esteem needs. Answer: Self-esteem related to competency,
achievement, and esteem from others.
,◉ Self-actualization needs. Answer: Becoming everything one is
capable of.
◉ Self-transcendence. Answer: When a person experiences a sense of
identity that transcends or extends beyond the personal self.
◉ The Id. Answer: The primitive, pleasure-seeking part of our
personalities that lurks in the unconscious mind.
◉ The Ego. Answer: Our sense of self. (Also unconscious mind)
Acts as an intermediary between the id and the world by using ego
defense mechanisms, such as repression, denial, and rationalization.
◉ The Superego. Answer: Conscious mind.
Our conscience (our sense of what is right or wrong) and is greatly
influenced by our parents' or caregivers' moral and ethical stances.
◉ Freud's contribution to mental health. Answer: Freud believed that
personality development is based on stages. During these stages, the
id focuses on an erogenous zone of the body. These zones are oral,
anal, and phallic. Fixation through overindulgence or frustration
results in pathologic conditions and personality disorders. Freud's
work has been criticized for a variety of reasons. One of the harshest
criticism stems from the concept of penis envy in which females
suffer from feelings of inferiority for not having male genitalia.
, ◉ Freud - Oral—birth to 1½ years. Answer: Pleasure-pain principle
Id, the instinctive and primitive mind, is dominant
Demanding, impulsive, irrational, asocial, selfish, trustful,
omnipotent, and dependent
Primary thought processes
Unconscious instincts—source-energy-aim-object
Mouth—primary source of pleasure
Immediate release of tension/anxiety and immediate gratification
through oral gratification
Task—develop a sense of trust that needs will be met
◉ Freud - Anal—1½ to 3 years. Answer: Reality principle—postpone
immediate discharge of energy and seek actual object to satisfy needs
Learning to defer pleasure
Gaining satisfaction from tolerating some tension-mastering impulses
PACKAGE FEATURING SOLVED QUESTIONS
AND FULL SOLUTION
◉ Mental health. Answer: Successful performance of mental
functions, resulting in the ability to engage in productive activities,
enjoy fulfilling relationships, adapt to change, and cope with
adversity.
Mental health is the foundation of thinking, communication skills,
learning, emotional growth, resilience, and self-esteem throughout the
life span.
It is a STATE OF WELL-BEING in which individuals are able to
realize their abilities as well as contribute to their community within
the context of life stressors.
◉ Mental illness. Answer: Actual diagnoses, gets in the way of
obtaining mental health.
Medical conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, mood,
ability to relate to others, and daily functioning. Basically, mental
illness can be seen as the result of flawed biological, psychological, or
social processes.
,Fortunately mental illnesses are treatable, and individuals can
experience symptom relief, and complete cure in some cases, with
treatment and support.
◉ Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Answer: Needs are placed
conceptually on a pyramid, with the most basic and important needs
on the lower level.
The higher levels, the more distinctly human needs, occupy the top
sections of the pyramid. According to Maslow, when lower level
needs are met, higher level needs are able to emerge.
**Physiological needs first, safety second
◉ Physiological needs. Answer: Food, water, oxygen, elimination,
rest, and sex
◉ Safety needs. Answer: Security, protection, stability, structure,
order, and limits.
◉ Love and belonging needs. Answer: Affiliation, affectionate
relationships, and love
◉ Esteem needs. Answer: Self-esteem related to competency,
achievement, and esteem from others.
,◉ Self-actualization needs. Answer: Becoming everything one is
capable of.
◉ Self-transcendence. Answer: When a person experiences a sense of
identity that transcends or extends beyond the personal self.
◉ The Id. Answer: The primitive, pleasure-seeking part of our
personalities that lurks in the unconscious mind.
◉ The Ego. Answer: Our sense of self. (Also unconscious mind)
Acts as an intermediary between the id and the world by using ego
defense mechanisms, such as repression, denial, and rationalization.
◉ The Superego. Answer: Conscious mind.
Our conscience (our sense of what is right or wrong) and is greatly
influenced by our parents' or caregivers' moral and ethical stances.
◉ Freud's contribution to mental health. Answer: Freud believed that
personality development is based on stages. During these stages, the
id focuses on an erogenous zone of the body. These zones are oral,
anal, and phallic. Fixation through overindulgence or frustration
results in pathologic conditions and personality disorders. Freud's
work has been criticized for a variety of reasons. One of the harshest
criticism stems from the concept of penis envy in which females
suffer from feelings of inferiority for not having male genitalia.
, ◉ Freud - Oral—birth to 1½ years. Answer: Pleasure-pain principle
Id, the instinctive and primitive mind, is dominant
Demanding, impulsive, irrational, asocial, selfish, trustful,
omnipotent, and dependent
Primary thought processes
Unconscious instincts—source-energy-aim-object
Mouth—primary source of pleasure
Immediate release of tension/anxiety and immediate gratification
through oral gratification
Task—develop a sense of trust that needs will be met
◉ Freud - Anal—1½ to 3 years. Answer: Reality principle—postpone
immediate discharge of energy and seek actual object to satisfy needs
Learning to defer pleasure
Gaining satisfaction from tolerating some tension-mastering impulses
