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1. a feeling of tension, distress, and discomfort produced by a perceived or threatened loss of inner control rather than from external danger
2. emotion in response to the fear of being hurt or losing something valued |
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| a commitment and binding together of individuals in interpersonal connections |
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| regular fluctuations of a variety of physiological factors over a period of 24 hours |
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| in Sullivan's social-interpersonal theory, the development of thinking progresses from unconnected to causal to symbolic |
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| personal controlling beliefs that influence the way people process data about themselves and others |
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| the aspect of consciousness, which is the quality or state of being aware, especially of something within oneself or of being conscious of an external object, state, or fact, that encompasses all things that are easily remembered. |
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| a nurse's emotional reaction to a client based on significant relationships in the nurse's past; the process may be conscious or unconscious, and the feelings may be positive or negative |
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| a turning point in a person's life at which usual resources and coping skills are no longer effective and the person enters a state of disequilibrium |
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| an analytic process used to make reliable observations, draw sound conclusions, create new ideas, solve problems, evaluate lines of reasoning, and improve self-knowledge |
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| an unconscious attempt to deny, misinterpret, or distort reality to alleviate anxiety |
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| an etiological theory that proposes that stress can trigger symptoms in individuals with biological predisposition to severe mental illness |
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| individuals have little voice or power in what happens to them leading to feelings of inadequacy or helplessness |
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| in intrapersonal theory, the component of the personality that mediates the drives of the id with objective reality in a way that promotes well-being and survival |
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| helping people recover their sense of own value, strength, and the ability to cope with life |
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| the use of critical thinking skills and relevant research to improve the quality of client care and promote clinical judgment |
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| external locus of control |
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| the belief that personal events and behavior are imposed from the outside and the individual is not responsible for the cause or the cure |
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| the full complement of genetic information |
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| in intrapersonal theory, the biological and psychological drives with which a person is born; its major concern is the instant gratification of needs |
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| internal locus of control |
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| the recognition that one is responsible for his or her behaviors, thoughts, and feelings as well as his or her own movement toward health or illness |
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| a lifelong process that includes a sense of harmony and balance for the individual, family, friends, and community; a growth toward potential; an inner feeling of aliveness |
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| a sense of disharmony with aspects of living that may be distressing to the individual, family, friends, or community |
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| standardized labels applied to clients' problems and responses to disorders |
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| the focus on genetic factors, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and biological rhythms as they relate to the cause, course, and prognosis of mental disorders |
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| brain chemical that carries an inhibiting or stimulating message from one brain cell to another across the synapse. (Ex. dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)) |
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| Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) |
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| a comprehensive standardized classification of nursing interventions |
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| Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) |
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| a comprehensive standardized classification of nursing outcomes |
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| the organization of scientific data to prescribe practice criteria |
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| the individual qualities, including habitual behavior patterns, that make a person unique; refers to stable patterns of thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and motivation |
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| The customization of medications based on knowledge from genomics. The identification of genes that affect individuals' responses to medications. |
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| the aspect of consciousness that encompasses thoughts, feelings, and experiences that have been forgotten but that can easily be recalled to consciousness; sometimes called the subconscious |
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| The ability to emerge relatively unscathed from negative life events, to not only survive and bounce back from difficult and traumatic experiences, but also to continue to grow and develop emotionally and psychologically; resilience is the rule, not the exception |
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| social-emotional intelligence |
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| the ability to recognize emotions in oneself and others, the ability to manage one's own emotions, and the ability to handle interpersonal relationships |
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| the part of a person that deals with relationships and values and addresses the questions of purpose and meaning in life; the search for meaning and purpose in life through a connection with others, nature, and/or a belief in a higher power |
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| a collection of negative attitudes and beliefs that lead people to fear, reject, avoid, and discriminate against people with mental illness |
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| in intrapersonal theory, the component of personality that is concerned with moral behavior |
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| the conscious process of nurse and client working together toward mutually established goals |
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| an active part of the treatment plan, which includes the physical environment as well as all interactions with staff members and other clients |
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| a client's unconscious displacement of feelings for a significant person in the past onto the nurse in the current relationship; the feelings may be positive or negative |
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| the aspect of consciousness that encompasses thoughts, feelings, experiences, and dreams that cannot be brought to conscious thought or remembered. |
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| the emotional climate of the family; high AS families are intrusive and make guilt-inducing remarks to one another |
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| the feelings, thoughts, and responses that loved ones experience after the death of a person with whom they have shared a significant relationship |
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| the invisible lines that define the amount and kind of contact allowable between members of the family and between the family and outside systems |
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| the belief that all families are resourceful and have the capacity to grow and change |
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| grief that includes symptoms such as intrusive images, severe feelings of emptiness, neglect of activities at home and at work, preoccupation with thoughts of the deceased person, yearning and searching for her or him, inability to accept the death, auditory and visual hallucinations of the person, bitterness, and survivor guilt over the death |
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| grief in which the loss cannot be openly acknowledged, socially validated, or publicly mourned |
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| based on the genogram, a diagram outlining the history of the behavior patterns within a family, the ecomap identifies interaction between the family and the larger community |
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| exhibits characteristics such as individualism, separateness, autonomy, competition, and mastery of and control over one's environment |
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| describes the quality of the parent-child relationship in terms of sensitivity, structuring, nonintrusiveness, and nonhostility |
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| the emotional climate of the family; high EE families are hostile, critical, enmeshed, with minimal tolerance, flexibility, empathy, and achievement |
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| the emotional bond that family members have between one another |
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| the manner in which families listen, speak, self-disclose, and track with one another |
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| the amount of change in a family's leadership, role relationships, and relationship rules |
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| a three-generational family tree of structures and relationships of family members |
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| the active process of learning to adapt to a loved one's death |
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| the actual, identifiable family problems associated with the person's mental illness |
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| three-generational family tree specifying biologic and medical histories |
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| cultural value of interdependence among people with stress on cooperation, cohesion, and group identity |
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| a collection of negative attitudes and beliefs that lead people to fear, reject, avoid, and discriminate against people with mental illness |
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| the psychological distress of the family members in relation to the objective burden |
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| helps people cope with stressful situations and increases feelings of competence |
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| maintaining clients in their usual surroundings, both geographic and interpersonal |
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| living on the streets and in emergency shelters |
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| least restrictive environment |
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| A therapeutic setting that will provide safe care while allowing maximum freedom. The least restrictive environment ranges from clients living on their own to being hospitalized in a locked unit. The determination is always made based on the level of protection needed to keep the client safe at that moment in time. |
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| Achievement of valued social roles for consumers of mental health care; a guiding principle of psychiatric rehabilitation |
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| psychosocial rehabilitation |
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| the development of skills and supports necessary for successful living, learning, and working in the community. |
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| A facet of rehabilitation; incorporating one's disability as part of reality and adapting to one's disorder |
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| the concept that people who are most impacted by health care decisions should have the most power in the decision-making process |
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| social network interventions |
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| a plan to improve the relationships of clients within their social network |
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| network of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care and client and professional health-related education |
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| supporting and defending people's rights to their beliefs, attitudes, and values |
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| understanding and respecting cultural diversity in the practice of nursing; based on cultural knowledge and sensitivity, appropriate communication skills, and client advocacy. |
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| pattern of learned behavior based on values, beliefs, and perceptions of the world; culture is taught and shared by members of a group |
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| prejudice expressed behaviorally, the isms are forms o discrimination |
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| belonging to a particular cultural group or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
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| the belief that one's own culture is more important than and preferable to any other culture |
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| the drawing of interferences to process information |
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| stressful life events that make people susceptible to a wide variety of physical and mental illnesses |
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| culture-specific syndromes that have a presumed cause but no specific signs and symptoms |
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| how a person's point of view influences what is noticed and not noticed |
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| refusal to recognize that there are points of view other than one's own |
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| a negative feeling about people who are different from us; beliefs, opinions, or points of view that are formed before the facts are known or in spite of them |
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| excessive and irrational beliefs regarding the superiority of a given group |
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| a standardized mental picture held in common by members of a group that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment; images frozen in time that cause us to see what we expect to see; arise out of negative biases |
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| a smaller group within a larger cultural group |
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| culture-specific syndromes that are illnesses with specific symptoms |
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| the client's formulation of a plan of care to assist family and caregivers who must make decisions for the client when she or he is unable to make decisions for herself or himself |
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| the freedom to choose and the ability to assume responsibility for one's acts |
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| a commitment and binding together of individuals in interpersonal connections |
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| detaining a client in a psychiatric facility against his or her will, requested on the basis of dangerousness to self or others; also called involuntary admission |
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| a legal determination affirming that a client can make reasonable judgments and decisions about treatment and other significant personal issues |
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| the legal and ethical duty to not share information about clients |
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| a health care professional's obligation to warn identified individuals if a client has made a credible threat of violence or death |
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| leaving a psychiatric facility against medical advice |
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| a system of morals or rules of behavior |
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| a client's right to receive enough information to make a decision about treatment and to communicate the decision to others |
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| detaining a client in a psychiatric facility against his or her will, requested on the basis of dangerousness to self or others; also called commitment |
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| the process through which a person consents to confinement for the purpose of assessment and treatment of a mental disorder |
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