Defensive Coping

Repeated projection of falsely positive self-evaluation based on a self-protective pattern that defends against underlying perceived threats to positive self-regard

DENIAL, DIFFICULT

Inability to form a valid appraisal of the stressors, inadequate choices of practiced responses, and/or inability to use available resources

INABILITY, INADEQUATE, not able to meat basic needs

DISORDER: Somatoform Disorders

Conscious and unconscious attempt to disavow the knowledge or meaning of an event to reduce anxiety/fear, but leading to detriment of health

Delays seeking health care

At risk for a disorder that occurs after the death of a significant other in which the experience of distress accompanying bereavement fails to follow normative expectations and manifests in functional impairment.

RISK FACTORS: death of significatn other, emotional instability, lack of support

Pattern of regulating and integrating into daily living a therapeutic regime for treatment of illness and its sequelae that is unsatisfactory for metting specific health goals

characteristics: failure to include treatment in daily living, failure to take action to reduce risk factors, does verbalize difficulty with regimen.

Subjective state in which an individual sees imited or no alternatives or personal choices available and is unable to mobilize engergy on own behalf

characteristics: closing eyes, decreased affect; decreased appetite, decreased response to stimuli, sighing

Perception that one's own actions will not significantly affect an outcome; a perceived lack of control over current situation or immediate happening

characteristics: expression of uncertainty about fluctuating engergy levels,frustration of inability to perform previous  tasks, expresses having no control

At risk for perceived lack of control over a situation and/or one's ability to significantly affect an outcome

Risk Factors: acute injury, dying, illness, chronic low self-esteem

Behavior of a person and/or caregiver that fails to coincide with a health-promoting plan agreed on by the person, family, health care professional

May lead to clinically ineffective or partially ineffective outcomes. 

At risk for experiencing discomfort associated with a desire or need for more contact with others

Risk Factors: isolation, deprivation-affection, 

Sustained maladaptive response to a traumatic, overwhelming event

characteristics: aggression, alienation, anger 

Decreased ability to sustain a pattern of positive responss to an adverse situation or crisis

characteristics: decreased interest in academic activities, depression, guilt, isolation 

Change in the amoount or patterning of incoming stimuli accompanied by a diminished, exaggerated, distorted, or impaired response to such stimuli

characteristics: disorientation, hallucinations, sensory distortions

Insufficient or excessive quantity or ineffective quality of social exchange

characteristics:discomfort in social situations, dysfunctional interaction with others

aloneness experienced by the individual and perceived as imposed by others and as a negative or threatening state

Risk for Loneliness

vs Social Isolation

desire or need for more contact with others

vs

Aloneness experienced by individual-preoccupation with own thoughts

At risk for self-inflicted, life-threatening injury

R/T: marked changes in attitude, behaviour, school performance, history of prior suicide attempt

At risk behaviors in which an individual demonstrates that he or she can be physically, emotionally, and/or sexually harmful to others

Risk Factors: availability to weapon, body language, clenching fist, pacing, throwing objects, history of violence