NPN 125 Terms Study Guide.
Mental Health - Answers✔A state of wellbeing in which the individual realizes his or her own
abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is
able to make a contribution to his or her community
Holistic mental health - Answers✔a complete state of mental health when physical, mental and
social wellbeing are intact
mental illness - Answers✔a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or
pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress or disability
culture - Answers✔a common heritage, set of beliefs, norm, values, and behaviors that are
unique to each
Why are some more healthy than others? - Answers✔Genetics, good up bringing, life
circumstances
What is the DSM-5? - Answers✔A mental disorder as a clinically significant behavioral or
psychological syndrome or pattern associated with at least one of the following criteria:
current distress
disability
a significantly greater risk of suffering, death, pain, and disability
an important loss of freedom
beneficence - Answers✔Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action
autonomy - Answers✔client's right to make his own decisions
justice - Answers✔fair and equal tx for all
fidelity - Answers✔loyalty and faithfulness to the client and to one's duty
veracity - Answers✔being honest when dealing with the client
confidentiality - Answers✔only share info with other caregivers of the patient
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Stress - Answers✔a condition that results when a threat or challenge to our well-being requires
us to adapt and make an adjustment
distress - Answers✔is in response to a threat or challenge is actually harmful to one's health
eustress - Answers✔is positive and motivating as shown by one's confidence in the ability to
master a challenge or stressor
acute stress - Answers✔constitutes the reaction to an immediate threat
Fight or Flight response - Answers✔there's a surge of the adrenal hormone epinephrine or
adrenaline into the bloodstream
anxiety - Answers✔a feeling of apprehension, worry, uneasiness, or dread, especially of the
future
mild anxiety - Answers✔increased awareness and energy
moderate anxiety - Answers✔voice tremors, muscle tension, rapid speech, shakiness
severe anxiety - Answers✔feeling of impending doom
panic anxiety - Answers✔hysteria, withdrawal
omnibus Budget Reform act - Answers✔Prevented the inappropriate placement of clients with
mental illness into nursing homes
Mental Health Act 1983 - Answers✔addressed the rights of people admitted to psychiatric
hospitals, including their right to refuse being admitted to psychiatric facility against their will
and their rights while in treatment, following discharge, and during community follow-up
Mental Health Parity and Addiction equity Act of 2008 - Answers✔Requires group insurance
plans to cover mental illnesses the same was as physical ones
False Imprisonment - Answers✔restraining an individual or restricting an individual's freedom
Assault - Answers✔threatening a client such as approaching in a threatening manner with a
syringe
battery - Answers✔touching a client in a harmful or offensive way
Personality - Answers✔an enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about oneself
and the environment that is demonstrated in our social and interpersonal relationships
Willian Glasser - Answers✔Founder of Reality Therapy and Control Therapy
Glasser's 4 Basic Needs - Answers✔love and belonging
power and control
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