mental health
a negative attitude or discredit against an individual or group
What is stigma?
A shared way of life, a combination of traditions, beliefs, that make people bond together
What is culture?
A state of mental or emotional strain or tension
What is stress?
Refers to conscious or unconscious strategies used to reduce and manage unpleasant emotions
What is coping?
Unconscious burying or forgetting mechanism
What is the repression defense mechanism?
cooperative, suspicious, paranoid, hostile
What are behaviors?
One's personal traits and identifies a person with his/her heritage
What is ethnicity?
positive form of stress
What is eustress?
The process of learning new effective coping techniques.
What is stress adaptation?
This could be described as an out-of-body experience
What is disassociation?
Clients have the ability to make decisions about their own health care
What is autonomy?
Judging other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people solely by the values, standards and frame of reference of one's own
What is ethnocentrism?
He said " Anxiety is caused by conflict between the ID and Superego"
Who is Freud?
The purpose is to reduce or eliminate anxiety
What are defense mechanisms?
Emotionally returning to an earlier time in life when there was less stress
What is regression?
An interview process that is used to isolate or determine a particular problem?
What is a helping interview?
It is the broad concept of a belief in something beyond the self
What is spirituality?
Recurring disturbing memories, flashbacks
What is Post Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD)?
Alarm stage, Resistance stage and Exhaustion stage
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
lowered immunity, headaches, burnout, coronary artery disease, asthma
What are stress-related medical conditions?
Any condition characterized by cognitive, emotional disturbances, abnormal behavior or impaired function
What is mental illness?
Collection of data to identify values, beliefs, meaning, and behaviors of clients
What is cultural assessment?
Fear of enclosed spaces
What is claustrophobia?
Unconscious refusal to see reality
What is the denial defense mechanism?
It is a death practice where this group believes in reincarnation, the client may want to lie on the floor while dying, prefers cremation
What is Hinduism?