Psychosocial Health and Stress Management Flashcards HLST 200

Vocabulary flashcards covering psychosocial health, emotional intelligence, mental disorders, stress models, and physiological responses based on the lecture transcript.

Psychosocial Health

A complex interaction of processes or factors that are both psychological and social in nature, encompassing emotional, mental, social, and spiritual states.

Mental Health

The ability to perceive reality as it is, to respond to life's challenges, and to develop rational strategies for living.

Emotional Health

The ability to express and acknowledge one's feelings and moods and exhibit adaptability and compassion for others.

Emotions

Conscious mental reactions accompanied by physiological and behavioural changes in our bodies.

Emotional Intelligence

The ability to recognize and manage our own emotions and recognize, understand, and influence the emotions of others.

Self-Awareness

In emotional intelligence, knowing your emotions, values, and weaknesses and the impact you have on others.

Self-Regulation

In emotional intelligence, the ability to control or share your emotions depending on the situation.

Empathy

The capacity to understand what other people are experiencing and consider their feelings.

Social Skill

The competence to manage relationships that benefit people or organizations.

Motivation (Emotional Intelligence)

The insight to be able to enjoy working toward personal and professional goals with a focus on meaning, not just material gain.

Social Health

The ability to interact effectively with other people and with the social environment.

Social Support

The care and security that family, friends, colleagues, and professionals provide us, encompassing emotional, esteem, network, appraisal, and altruistic types.

Social Bonds

The degree to which people are integrated into and attached to their families, communities, and society (comprising attachment, commitment, belief, and involvement).

Spiritual Health

The ability to identify our basic purpose in life and to experience the fulfillment of achieving our full potential.

Culture

A sense of who we are, where we come from, and what we believe in.

Spiritual Intelligence

The capacity to enhance an individual's capabilities and qualities such as compassion, creativity, and wisdom by improving self-awareness and feelings of connection with divine energy.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

A model stating human needs motivate personality development, ordered from basic physiological needs at the base to safety, love/belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization at the top.

Self-Actualization

The highest level of human need in Maslow's original model, defined as living to one's full potential and functioning at the highest possible level.

Instrumental Values

Ways of thinking and acting that we hold important, such as being loving or loyal.

Terminal Values

Goals, achievements, or ideal states that we strive toward, such as happiness.

Self-Esteem

Belief and pride in ourselves, giving us the confidence to achieve and form close relationships.

Learned Helplessness

Blaming others for our failures after experiencing repeated disappointments and transferring responsibility for healthy choices over to society.

Positive Psychology

An approach emphasizing building on personal strengths rather than treating weaknesses.

Feelings

Bodily or emotional responses that come and go within minutes to help us realize we are experiencing an emotion.

Mood

A sustained emotional state that colours our view of the world for hours or days.

Self-Efficacy

The belief that we can influence or produce an effect over events that affect our lives.

Autonomy

Governing ourselves or being independent and true to oneself.

Locus of Control

Where individuals view control as originating, categorized as internal or external.

Loneliness

A feeling of distress that impedes one's desired and achieved social relations with others.

Altruism

Unselfish regard for people, which contributes to higher self-esteem and lower physical and mental stress.

Mental Disorder

A clinically significant behavioural or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and reflects an underlying psychobiological dysfunction.

Mental Illness

A reduced ability to function, associated with dysfunction and impaired functioning over an extended period.

Stigma

Severe social disapproval based on misconceptions and beliefs surrounding mental health conditions.

Panic Disorder

A condition developing when panic attacks recur or apprehension about them becomes so intense that individuals cannot function normally.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

A form of therapy focusing on inappropriate or inaccurate thoughts or beliefs to help individuals change their behavior.

Phobias

Out of the ordinary, irrational, intense, excessive, unreasonable, and persistent fears of certain objects or situations.

Social Anxiety Disorder

A condition where people are fearfully shy, leading to social isolation and intense anxiety in social settings.

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

A neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by hyperactive, impulsive, and/or inattentive behaviours, categorized into inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive, and combined types.

Bipolar Disorder

A disorder involving mood swings from manic states of feeling euphoric and energetic to depressive states of utter despair.

Major Depression

Persistent sadness and empty mood accompanied by a loss of interest in activities, fatigue, feelings of hopelessness, and risk of suicidal thoughts.

Obsession

A senseless, recurring idea, thought, or image.

Compulsion

A repetitive behaviour performed according to certain rules or in a stereotyped fashion.

Schizophrenia

A complex brain disorder that impairs an individual's sense of reality, presenting symptoms like disorganized speech, hallucinations, and delusions.

Psychiatrist

A licensed medical doctor with training in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology who can prescribe medications.

Psychologist

A professional who completed graduate school and licensing requirements to practice therapy, but cannot prescribe medication.

Stress

A physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and serves as an internal state of arousal to demands.

Eustress

Positive stress that challenges us to grow, adapt, and find creative solutions.

Distress

Negative stress that produces detrimental effects and can deplete or destroy life energy.

Neustress

Neutral stress that is neither good nor bad and produces inconsequential effects.

General Adaptation Syndrome

A stress model describing the body's attempt to maintain homeostasis through three sequential stages: Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion.

Psychoneuroimmunology

The study of the relationship between the brain's response to stress and the immune system.

Sympathetic Nervous System

A branch of the autonomic nervous system that initiates the release of stress hormones, increasing heart rate and respiratory rate.

Parasympathetic Nervous System

A branch of the autonomic nervous system that slows down systems stimulated by the stress response to restore homeostasis.

Epinephrine

A hormone released by the adrenal glands that initiates increased blood flow, dilates alveoli, and elevates breathing rate and blood glucose release.

Cortisol

A stress hormone released by the adrenal gland (triggered by ACTH) that helps release stored nutrients for energy.

Ableism

Societal barriers linked to negative attitudes held about the potential and capabilities of people with disabilities.

Technostress

An inability to manage technology in a healthy way, resulting in anxiety or mental pressure from overexposure or struggling to embrace it.

Digital Dementia

A breakdown of cognitive abilities, decline in memory, and shrivelling of grey matter in the hippocampus linked to excessive screen time.

Sleep Debt

The cumulative number of hours of sleep missed each night relative to the recommended $7-9$ hours.

Circadian Rhythm

The biological sleep-wake cycle that regulates physical and mental functioning over a 24-hour period.