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mental health Ans a state of well-being in which individual realizes own potential and can cope with normal stresses of life, work productively, and contribute to their community; not simply an absence of mental disorder/disability mental illness Ans characterized by alterations in thinking, mood or behavior (or combination) and impaired functioning over an extended period of time. The symptoms vary from mild to severe depending on the type, individual, family & socio-economic environment. mental disorder Ans the medical term for mental illness that refers to a diagnosable health condition based on an accepted classification system with criteria related to alterations in thinking, mood, behavior and cognition. The disorders are associated with various degrees of distress and impaired functioning. (range in severity) addiction Ans a complex condition, a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence; a chronic, relapsing, and treatable brain disorder that results from the prolonged effects of the exposure of the brain to drugs (substances or chemicals) tactile hallucinations Ans hallucinations that affect the individuals's sensations eg. feel something crawling on them

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NURS 2547 - WEEK 1 ACTUAL COMPLETE EXAM|WITH
ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|GRADED
A
mental health Ans✓✓✓ a state of well-being in which individual
realizes own potential and can cope with normal stresses of life, work
productively, and contribute to their community; not simply an absence
of mental disorder/disability


mental illness Ans✓✓✓ characterized by alterations in thinking, mood
or behavior (or combination) and impaired functioning over an extended
period of time. The symptoms vary from mild to severe depending on
the type, individual, family & socio-economic environment.


mental disorder Ans✓✓✓ the medical term for mental illness that refers
to a diagnosable health condition based on an accepted classification
system with criteria related to alterations in thinking, mood, behavior
and cognition. The disorders are associated with various degrees of
distress and impaired functioning. (range in severity)


addiction Ans✓✓✓ a complex condition, a brain disease that is
manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence; a
chronic, relapsing, and treatable brain disorder that results from the
prolonged effects of the exposure of the brain to drugs (substances or
chemicals)


tactile hallucinations Ans✓✓✓ hallucinations that affect the
individuals's sensations eg. feel something crawling on them

, olfactory hallucations Ans✓✓✓ hallucinations that affect the
individuals's sense of smell eg. smell something that isnt there


illusions Ans✓✓✓ when visuals are misinterpreted eg. see a phone and
fully think its a speaker


history of mental health eras Ans✓✓✓ aboriginal period, era of
confinement, era of moral treatment (humane), era of asylum
establishment


Philippe Pinel significance Ans✓✓✓ placed patients under the care of
adequately prepared physicians, ordered the release the inmates from
their chains, open windows, feed patients with nourishing food, treat
patients with kindness, stopped abuses of drugging & blood letting, etc.


William Tuke significance Ans✓✓✓ founded the York Retreat which
was an influential example for reform initiatives; Tuke introduced a
regimen of moral treatment, humane, pedagogical approach of kind
approach, proper medical treatment & meaningful activities &
distractions


when was asylum establishment Ans✓✓✓ by the beginning of the 20th
century, each Canadian province has established a public funded asylum

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