- discrimination
- 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
- traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- brain injury that can cause short- or long-term problems with a person being unable able to think, function, move, and communicate normally