Chapter 1 Key Terms
actions or behaviors taken against a group of people because of prejudice
- Dysfunctional relationship
- relationship in which unhealthy behavior patterns exist among members of a group
- Empirical research
- scholarly work from observation and measurement of experience, in contrast to theory
- Explicit bias
- attitudes people are aware of, endorse, and communicate
- Implicit bias
- prejudice evidenced in attitudes beyond consciousness or control
- Mental health
- state of well-being in which individuals realize their own abilities, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively, and contribute to their community
- Mental illness
- health condition involving changes in emotion, thinking, or behavior (or a combination of these) associated with emotional distress and problems functioning in social, work, or family activities
- Prejudice
- beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes someone holds about a group, not based on personal experience
- Professional intimacy
- nurse gains an understanding of the client through acceptance, respect, empathy, recognition, and compassion
- Psychosocial rehabilitation
- helps individuals develop the social, emotional, and intellectual skills needed to live happily with the smallest amount of professional assistance manageable
- quality improvement (QI) process
- involves looking at a problem; utilizing data, decision-making tools, and testing; and making an improvement
- Risk factor
- any number of things that increase the chances of developing a mental illness
- Stereotyping
- when someone has a generalized and prejudiced opinion about members of a particular group of people
- Stigma
- cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs that motivates the general public to fear, reject, avoid, and discriminate against a group of people
- Stereotyping
- brain injury that can cause short- or long-term problems with a person being unable able to think, function, move, and communicate normally
Actions or behaviors taken against a group of people because of prejudice.
Relationship in which unhealthy behavior patterns exist among members of a group.
scholarly work from observation and measurement of experience in contrast to theory
when someone has a generalized and prejudiced opinion about members of a particular group of people
prejudice evidenced in attitudes beyond consciousness or control
state of well being in which individuals realize their own abilities, cope with normal life stressors, work productively, and contribute to their community.
health condition involving changes in emotion, thinking, or behavior (or a combination of these) associated with emotional distress and problems functioning in social, work, or family activities
beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes someone holds about a group, not based on personal experience
nurse gains an understanding of the client through acceptance, respect, empathy, recognition, and compassion
helps individuals develop the social, emotional, and intellectual skills needed to live happily with the smallest amount of professional assistance manageable
involves looking at a problem; utilizing data, decision-making tools, and testing; and making an improvement
any number of things that increase the chances of developing a mental illness
when someone has a generalized and prejudiced opinion about members of a particular group of people
actions or behaviors taken against a group of people because of prejudice
