Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

How many American adults are overweight? Which gender has the highest percentage? - Answer 62-69% of Americans, men are more overweight and women are more obese What is the goal for wellness when it comes to weight management or weight loss? - Answer to adopt healthy behaviors that achieve an appropriate body composition a weight loss of how much in obese/overweight individuals can reduce the risk of weight-related health conditions and increase life expectancy? - Answer 5-10% of bod...

What is the overall condition of body or mind and the presence or absence of illness or injury? - Answer Health What expands the idea of health to include the ability to achieve optimal health? - Answer Wellness What is a condition that increase one's chances of disease or injury? - Answer Risk factor What do healthy people seek? - Answer state if overall wellness rather than merely absence of illness What includes fitness level and ability to care for one's self? - Answer ...

brainstorming - Answer an idea-generating process in which group members offer whatever ideas they wish before any are debated - everyone contributes ideas, plan of actions, etc. - QUICKEST nominal group technique (NGT) - Answer an idea-generating process in which group members generate their initial ideas silently and independently and then combine them and consider them as a group - Facilitator is needed to create master list of ideas - More comfortable for those who are shy idea...

What are the leading causes of death in the US? - Answer heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease Leading causes of death in 15-24 year olds? - Answer Unintentional accidents, suicide, homicide What has life expectancy done? - Answer Doubled since 1950 What was the life expectancy in 2015 - Answer 78.8 years What is the Healthy People Initiative? - Answer Goals: prevent disease, disability, injury, and premature death. To achieve health equity, eliminat...

listening - Answer active process of making meaning out of another person's spoken message - ACTIVE includes process of listening preparation, receiving, constructing meaning, responding, and remembering hearing - Answer sensory process of receiving and perceiving sounds PASSIVE - process occurs automatically and requires no conscious effort attending - Answer paying attention to someone's words well enough to understand what the person is trying to communicate listening is ...

What is the primary application of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) currently? - Answer the treatment of severe depression Which type of group therapy does not involve the services of a trained mental health professional? - Answer self-help grouos ___ is a cognitive distortion that occurs when people interpret a situation as black or white, with not recognition of any middle ground. - Answer all-or-nothing thinking In person-centered therapy, what is the source of therapeutic insig...