Fuentes Health Vocab
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- self-concept
- A person's view of him/herself gained through an assessment of strengths and weaknesses. (A person with an accurate self-concept fully acknowledges who they are; acknowldging one's less attractive side does not mean one has to denigrate oneself.)
- self-esteem
- how a person values him/herself
- self-efficacy
- a person's belief that he/she is capable of accomplishing a task or series of tasks under certain conditions
- self-actualization
- the ability to seek the highest and most idealistic state that can lead to a person's fullest possible development
- psychosocial health
- the mental (thinking), emotional (feeling), social (relating), and spritual (being) dimensions of health
- locus of control (internal/external)
- refers to the figurative "place" a person designates as source of responsibility for the events in his/her life
- health
- a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
- holistic health wellness/ high level wellness
- maximal well-being, which includes physical, emotional, social, intellectual, mental, and spiritual well-being
- learned helplessness
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pattern of responding to situations by giving up because of repeated failure in the past
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personal control
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belief that one's own internal resources can control a situation
- spirituality
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a form ofwell-being in which a person acknowledges the need for having, relating, being, and transcendence in the quest for meaning in one's life
- spirituality
- a form of well-being in which a person acknowledges the need for having, relating, being, and transcendence in the quest for meaning in one's life