CARE OF CLIENTS WITH MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIORS STUDY GUIDE

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CARE OF CLIENTS WITH MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIORS STUDY GUIDE Mental Health ● State of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal s... tresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully ● Implies mastery in the areas of work, love, play ● A person who is experiencing mental health performs ● He or she enjoys life, has a sense of humor, and is satisfied with his or her interpersonal relationships ● The person shows optimism benefits from rest and sleep, and works well alone and with others Characteristics: o Accepts self and others o Able to cope with stress o Can return to normal functioning if temporarily disturbed o Able to form close and lasting relationships o Uses sound judgement to make decisions o Accepts responsibility for actions o Optimistic o Recognizes limitations o Can function effectively Mental Illness/Mental disorder ● A clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and is associated with present ● Psychiatrist's definition ● The existence of psychopathy of one kind or another ● The ill person may have gross mental deterioration, disturbances in thought or mood, a personality defect Sociologist's definition ● A label attached to persons who engage in certain deviant behavior characteristics of the mentally ill and is believed to be more of non-conformity to a set According to American Psychiatric Association (APA) ● A mental disorder is "a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress (e.g. a painful symptom) or disability (i.e. impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability or an important loss of freedom" Psychically Normal Persons ● Are in harmony with themselves and their environment ● Conform to the culture requirements According to Abraham Maslow: ● Mentally healthy people who achieve self-actualization are able to: ● Have positive self-concepts & relate well to people and their environment ● Form close relationships with others ● Generativity - mentor Elements of Mental Health 1. Positive attitude toward self/self esteem ● Objective view of self ● Feeling a strong sense of personal identity and security in the environment 2. Growth Orientation ● Correlates whether individual successfully achieves tasks associated with each level of development ● Anal exposive - ● Anal retentive - perfectionist 3. Integration ● Maintaining an equilibrium among various life processes 4. Self-governance/Autonomy ● Individual's ability to perform in an independent, self-directed manner ● Individual 5. Mastery of the environment ● Achieving a satisfactory role in the group, society, or environment ● Able to love and accept the love of others ● When faced 6. Reality orientation ● Perception of the environment without distortion and the capacity for empathy and social sensitivity a respect and concern for the wants and needs of others ● Empathy - you can understand them more ● Sympathy 7. Stress management ● Experiences appropriate emotions in daily life and can tolerate stress, knowing that the feelings are not going Five Signs of Mental Health 1. Happiness ● Finds 2. Control over behavior 3. Appraisal of reality ● Accurate picture of what is happening around one ● Good sense of the consequences, both good and bad, that will 4. Effectiveness in Work 5. A healthy self-concept General Criteria for Mental Disorders ● Dissatisfaction with one's characteristics, abilities and accomplishments ● Ineffective or unsatisfying IPR ● Dissatisfaction with one's place in the world ● Ineffective coping or adaptation to the events in one's life and a lack of personal growth The alarming burden of mental disorders Population at risk for mental illness Those: ● With familial or genetic predisposition to mental illness ● With poor access to health care [Show More]

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