PSYCHOLOGY

Define Psychology:

• The scientific study of the human mind and its

functions, especially those affecting behaviour in a given context.
• Psychology is the science of mind and behavior.
Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious
phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.
• The mental characteristics or attitude of a person
or group.
• Clinical psychology is concerned with diagnosing and
treating disorders of the brain, emotional disturbances, and behavior
problems.
• Social psychology looks at how the actions of others
influence the behavior of an individual.
• Child psychology is the study of the mental and
emotional development of children and is part of developmental
psychology, the study of changes in behavior that occur through the
life span.
• Cognitive psychology deals with how the human
mind receives and interprets impressions and ideas.
• A psychologist is someone who studies the mind and behavior.

• Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social

well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine
how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.

• COUNSELLING
defined as use of an interactive helping process focusing on the needs, pr
oblems, or feelings of the patient and significant others to enhance or su
pport coping, problem solving, and interpersonal relationships.
• counseling
• A process or interaction by which one person, either lay or formally train
ed, helps one or more other persons help themselves and pro-
actively change their lives, often through introspective dialogue.

• BEHAVIOUR - : the manner of conducting oneself.

• the response of an individual, group, or species to its
environment.

• perception
• the conscious mental registration of a sensory stimulus.
• PERCEPTION :
The mental process of becoming aware of or recognizing an object or idea; pr
imarily cognitive rather than affective or conative, although all three aspects
are manifested.

• Attention -is the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating

on a discrete aspect of information, whether considered subjective or
objective, while ignoring other perceivable information.

• Motivation -is an internal process that makes a person move toward a goal.

• motivation:
In psychology, the aggregate of all the individual motives, needs, and drives o
perative in a person at any given moment that influence the will and cause a
given behavior
• Personality- refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of
thinking, feeling and behaving.
• personality -is the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors that make a person unique.

• Interpersonal relationship in nursing care can be defined- as the

interaction between two or more people who communicate, transfer
values and energy from their roles in society.

• PSYCHIATRIC NURSING: A speciality concerned with the application

of psychiatric principles in caring for the mentally ill.
• Psychiatric nurses - specialize in mental health to help patients
overcome their psychiatric disorder and the stigma associated with it for
living their best lives.
• MANIA :mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or
euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.
• Mania is a period of extreme high energy or mood associated with
bipolar disorder.

• DELUSION :an idiosyncratic belief or impression maintained despite

being contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a
symptom of mental disorder.
• Delusions are an unshakable theory or belief in something false and
impossible, despite evidence to the contrary.
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