Chapter 4: Managing Stress and Coping with Loss
Developing Personal Identity and Character
Expressing Emotions in Healthful Ways
Developing Your Self-Esteem
Chapter 5: Mental and Emotional Problems
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Anything that causes stress
What is a stressor?
100
Someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for you
What is a role model?
100
Chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells
What are hormones?
100
The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life.
What is mental/emotional health?
100
A prolonged feeling of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness
What is Depression?
200
Any event that has a stressful impact sufficient to overwhelm your normal coping strategies
What is a traumatic event?
200
A firm observance of core ethical values
What is integrity?
200
The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior
What is hostility?
200
How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself
What is self-esteem?
200
The condition of feeling uneasy or worried about what may happen
What is anxiety?
300
Stress associated with long-term problems that are beyond a person's control
What is chronic stress?
300
The distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves
What is character?
300
Signals that tell your mind and body how to react
What are emotions?
300
A ranked list of those needs essential to human growth and development, presented in ascending order, starting with basic needs and building toward the need to reach your highest potential.
What is hierarchy of needs?
300
An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person, preventing him or her from leading a happy, healthful, and productive life.
What is a mental disorder?
400
A variety of reactions that may surface as an individual makes sense of how a loss affects him or her
What are stages of grief?
400
Your sense of yourself as a unique individual
What is personal identity?
400
The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels
What is empathy?
400
Striving to be the best you can
What is self-actualization?
400
The act of intentionally taking one's own life
What is suicide?
500
A physical reaction that results from stress rather than from an injury or illness
What is psychosomatic response?
500
Nonhostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement
What is constructive criticism?
500
Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations
What are defense mechanisms?
500
The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis
What is resilience?
500
an ongoing dialogue between a patient and a mental health professional
What is psychotherapy?