NURS 2430 Mental Health Kahoot Study Guide - Chapters 3 & 5 Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards generated from NURS 2430 Chapters 3 and 5 covering psychosocial theories, defense mechanisms, cognitive/behavioral theories, crisis intervention, and therapeutic relationships.

Id

In Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory, the component of personality operating on the pleasure principle.

Ego

In Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory, the component of personality operating on the reality principle.

Superego

In Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory, the component of personality functioning as the moral conscience.

Conscious

What a person is thinking about right now.

Preconscious

Information that can be easily recalled.

Unconscious

Thoughts, memories, or feelings outside awareness that may influence behavior.

Defense Mechanisms

Generally unconscious ways people protect themselves from anxiety.

Denial

Refusing to acknowledge an uncomfortable reality.

Projection

Attributing one's own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to someone else.

Rationalization

Creating a reasonable-sounding explanation instead of acknowledging the true reason for a behavior or feeling.

Displacement

Redirecting feelings from the original source to a safer target.

Regression

Returning to behaviors associated with an earlier developmental stage during stress.

Sublimation

Redirecting an unacceptable impulse into a socially acceptable or productive activity.

Reaction Formation

Behaving in a way that is opposite to one's actual unacceptable feelings or impulses.

Intellectualization

Using facts, logic, or technical information to avoid experiencing uncomfortable emotions.

Suppression

Consciously choosing to postpone thinking about a distressing feeling or situation.

Repression

Unconsciously blocking distressing thoughts, memories, or feelings from awareness.

Compensation

Emphasizing strength or achievement in one area to make up for a perceived weakness in another.

Identification

Adopting characteristics, behaviors, or values of another person.

Introjection

Internalizing the beliefs, values, or attitudes of another person.

Undoing

Trying to cancel out an unacceptable thought, feeling, or action with another behavior.

Conversion

Psychological distress expressed as physical symptoms that are not intentionally produced.

Splitting

Viewing people or situations in all-good or all-bad terms with difficulty integrating both positive and negative qualities.

Behaviorism

The theoretical concept that behavior is learned.

Classical Conditioning

Pavlovian behavioral concept involving association between stimuli.

Operant Conditioning

Skinnerian behavioral concept asserting that consequences influence behavior.

Positive Reinforcement

Adding something desirable to increase a behavior.

Negative Reinforcement

Removing something unpleasant to increase a behavior; it is NOT punishment.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Therapy based on the idea that thoughts influence feelings and behaviors, focusing on identifying unhealthy thoughts, challenging them, and developing healthier thinking and behaviors.

Crisis

A state that occurs when a person's usual coping strategies are not working.

Maturational Crisis

A type of crisis caused by a normal life transition.

Situational Crisis

A type of crisis caused by an unexpected event.

Adventitious Crisis

A type of crisis caused by a disaster or trauma.

Goal of Crisis Intervention

To restore safety and effective coping.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Treatment that focuses on strengths, recovery, independence, and meaningful community living.

Self-Awareness

Understanding one's own beliefs, values, and biases to prevent personal biases from affecting client care and enhance therapeutic effectiveness.

Therapeutic Use of Self

Using aspects of the nurse's personality, experience, values, feelings, intelligence, needs, coping skills, and perceptions to establish relationships.

Empirical Knowing

A pattern of knowing derived from nursing science.

Personal Knowing

A pattern of knowing derived from life experiences.

Ethical Knowing

A pattern of knowing derived from moral nursing knowledge.

Aesthetic Knowing

A pattern of knowing that represents the art of nursing.

Unknowing

A pattern of knowing wherein the nurse admits a lack of knowledge of the client or the client's subjective world.

Orientation Phase

The phase where nurse and client meet, establish roles/purpose, identify problems, clarify expectations, prepare, and self-assess.

Working Phase

The phase focusing on problem identification, examination of feelings/responses, and development of coping skills, positive self-image, behavioral change, and independence.

Termination Phase

The phase that begins when problems are resolved and ends when the relationship ends.