Nursing 3920A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cognitive Processing Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing, Therapeutic Touch
27 Feb 2017
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A state of well being in which an individual: realizes his/her own abilities, copes with stresses of life, can work productively and, is able to contribute to his/her community (who). People who are mentally healthy have tools for coping with different situations and maintaining a positive outlook remains focused, flexible, creative in bad times as well as good (smith and segal, 2011). * avg mentally healthy person fluctuates from green orange; being in green isn"t normal. In acute care you are most likely to see red. Have a healthy self-concept (self-concept is how you think of yourself in society; esteem) Are able to relate to others (people with anxiety find it difficult b/c it seems trivial or too much in there mind) Achieve a sense of meaning in life (hard to get out of bed if u have no reason) Demonstrate creativity/productivity (hand in hand with meaning in life)
