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| a syndrome of physical symptoms that result from an individual's real or perceived perception that harm or danger is imminent |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion Phases |
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| a stimulus arising from the internal or external environment that is perceived by an individual as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her wellbeing |
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| a variety of elements that influence how an individual perceives and responds to a stressful event |
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| restoration of the body to homeostasis following a physiological and/or psychological response to stress |
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| a failure of the body to return to homeostasis following a physiological and/or psychological response to stress, disrupting the individual's integrity |
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| a demand from within an individual's internal or external environment that elicits a physiological and/or psychological response |
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| Adaptive Coping Strategies |
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| Relaxation, Awareness, Meditation, Interpersonal Communication with Caring Other, Problem Solving, Pets, Music |
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| a subjective state of emotional, physical, and social responses to an anticipated loss of a valued entity |
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| an accumulation of grief that occurs when an individual experiences many losses over a short period of time and is unable to resolve one before another is experienced |
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| the four body fluids described by Hippocrates: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. |
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| the successful adaptation to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are age-appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms |
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| maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms, and interfere with the individual's social, occupational, and/or physical functioning |
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| the first american psychiatric nurse |
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| a diffuse apprehension that is vague in nature and is associated with feelings of uncertainty and helplessness |
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| Compensation, Denial, Displacement, Identification, Intellectualization, Introjection, Isolation, Projection, Rationalization, Reaction formation, Regression, Repression, Sublimation, Suppression, Undoing, |
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| study of the interaction between the nervous system and the endocrine system, and the effects of various hormones on cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning |
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| the branch of medicine that studies the effects of psychological and social factors on the functioning of the immune system |
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| medication that affects psychic function, behavior, or experience |
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| an interaction between two people in which input from both participants contributes to a climate of healing, growth promotion, and/or illness prevention |
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| an idea that one holds to be true |
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| a frame of reference around which an individual organizes knowledge about his or her world |
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| abstract standards, positive or negative, that represent an individual's ideal mode of conduct and ideal goals |
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| implies special feelings on the part of both the client and the nurse based on acceptance, warmth, friendliness, common interest, a sense of trust and a nonjudgmental attitude |
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| focuses their thought processes on specifics rather than generalities |
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| providing reassurance that what is discussed will not be repeated outside the boundaries of the healthcare team |
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| refers to the nurse's ability to be open, honest, and "real" in interactions with the client |
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| the ability to see beyond outward behavior and to understand the situation from the client's point of view |
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| Four Phases of a Therapeutic Nurse-Client Relationship |
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| Preinteraction, Orientation, Working, Termination |
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| occurs when the client unconsciously displaces to the nurse feelings formed toward a person from the past |
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| refers to the nurse's behavioral and emotional response to the client as if they were another person |
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| An interactive process of transmitting information between two or more entities |
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| innate tendency to own space |
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| the number of people within a given environmental space and has been shown to influence interpersonal interaction |
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| the means by which various cultures use space to communicate |
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| the closest distance that individuals will allow between themselves and others |
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| approximately 18-40 inches and reserved for interactions that are personal in natuer |
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| about 4-12 feet away from the body |
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| those that exceed 12 feet |
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| the gestural component of the spoken word |
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| Therapeutic Communication |
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| caregiver verbal and nonverbal techniques that focus on the care receiver's needs and advance the promotion of healing and change, it encourages exploration of feelings and fosters understanding of behavioral motivation, it is nonjudmental, discourages defensiveness, and promotes trust |
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| a collection of individuals whose association is founded on shared commonalities of interest, values, norms or purpose, membership in a group is generally by chance, choice or by circumstance |
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| a form of psychosocial treatment in which a number of clients meet together with a therapist for purposes of sharing, gaining personal insight, and improving interpersonal coping strategies |
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| mutual sharing and concern for one another |
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| open expression of feelings |
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| leadership style in which the leader has a personal goal for the group |
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| leadership style focused on the members of the group |
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| leadership style in which people do as they please, and the leader's approach is noninvolvement |
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| client become "actors" in life situation scenarios |
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| Therapeutic Community or Milieu Therapy |
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| a scientific structuring of the environment in order to effect behavioral changes and to improve the psychological health and functioning of the individual |
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