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Question: Answer:
physiological Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
safety
love/belonging
esteem/respect
self-actualization




Question: Answer:
Paplau established 4 levels anxiety


Question: Answer:
- tensions experienced daily mild anxiety
- prepares for action and motivates
- sharpens senses and environmental awareness


Question: Answer:
behaviors that satisfy need for comfort (Menninger 1963) coping mechanisms (1)
- yawning
- nail biting
- eating/drinking
- exercise
- fidgeting
some more adaptive than others, each person finds their own

,Question: Answer:
- as anxiety increases, awareness to environment decreases moderate anxiety
- decreased attention span
- can attend to needs with direction
- may need problem-solving assistance
- increased muscular tension and restlessness
- increases HR, RR, perspiration
- increased speech volume, rate, and pitch
- gastric discomfort


Question: Answer:
(mechanisms employed by ego in the face of threat) Ego Defense Mechanisms (2)
- compensation
- rationalization
- denial
- reaction formation
- displacement
- regression
- identification
- repression
- intellectualization
- introjection
- suppression
- isolation
- undoing
- projection


Question: Answer:
- anxiety remains unresolved psycho-physiological responses (3)
- extended period may exacerbate symptoms, delay recovery,
interfere with treatment of
medical condition

, Question: Answer:
- awareness greatly diminished severe anxiety
- concentration on one detail
- diminished attention span
- overt behavior aimed at relieving anxiety
- physical symptoms: headache, palpitations, insomnia, trembling,
dizziness, tachycardia,
hyperventilation, urinary frequency, diarrhea, palpitations
- emotional symptoms: confusion, dread, horror


Question: Answer:
- aware of stress and maladaptive behaviors psychoneurotic behavior patterns (4)
- unaware of possible psychological causes of distress
- helpless feeling
- experiences no loss of contact with reality
- ex) anxiety disorders, somatic symptom disorders, dissociative
disorders


Question: Answer:
- most intense state of anxiety panic anxiety
- prolonged can lead to physical and emotional exhaustion, maybe
life-threatening
- inability to focus on one detail
- experience hallucinations or delusions
- may display wild or desperate actions or extreme withdraw
- ineffective human functioning and communication
- feeling of terror
- characteristics: dilated pupils, labored breathing, severe trembling,
sleepless,
palpitations, diaphoresis, m. incoordination, immobility or
hyperactivity, incoherent


Question: Answer:
- significant thought disturbance where reality testing is impaired, psychotic response (5)
resulting in delusions,
hallucinations, disorganized speech, and cationic behavior
- characteristics: shows minimal distress, unaware of maladaptive
behaviors, anosognosia,
flight from reality in an attempt to adapt
- ex) schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder

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