DEFINITIONS: PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH:1. Psychological health: Mental health defined negatively as the absence of illness or positively as the presence of wellness.2. Self-actualization: The highest level of growth in Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs.3. Self-concept: The ideas, feelings and perception a person has about himself or herself. Also called self-image.4. Self-esteem: Satisfaction and confidence in one’s self, the valuing of oneself as a person.5. Autonomy: Independence; the sense of being self-directed.6. Emotion: A feeling state involving some combination of thoughts, physiological changes and an outward expression or behavior.7. Emotional intelligence: The capacity to identify and manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of other’s.8. Identity crisis: Internal confusion about who one is.9. Values: Criteria for judging what is good and bad, which underlie an individual’s moral decision and behavior.10. Cognitive distortion: A pattern of negative thinking that makes events seem worse than they are.11. Self-talk: The statements a person makes to himself or herself.12. Defense mechanism: A mental mechanism for coping with conflict or anxiety.13. Pessimism: The tendency to expect an unfavorable outcome.14. Optimism: The tendency to expect a favorable outcome.15. Assertiveness: Expression that is forceful but not hostile.16. Anxiety: Fear that is not a response to any definite threat.17. Specific phobia: A persistent and excessive fear of a specific object, activity or situation.18. Social phobia: An excessive fear of being observed by others; speaking in public is the most common example.19. Panic disorder: A syndrome of severe anxiety attacks accompanied by physical symptoms.20. Agoraphobia: An anxiety disorder characterized by fear of being alone away from help and by avoidance of many different places and situations, in extreme cases, a fear of leaving home.21. Generalized Anxiety Disorder [GAD]: An anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable worry about all kinds of things and anxiety in many situations.22. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder [OCD]: An anxiety disorder characterized by uncontrollable, recurring thoughts and the performance of senseless rituals.23. Obsession: A recurrent, irrational unwanted thought or impulse.24. Compulsion: An irrational, repetitive, forced action, usually associated with an obsession.25. Post-traumatic stress disorder: An anxiety disorder characterized by relieving traumatic events through dreams, flashbacks and hallucinations.26. Mood Disorder: An emotional disturbance that is intense and persistent enough to affect normal function. Two common mood disorders are depression and bipolar disorder.27. Depression: A mood disorder characterized by loss of interest, sadness, hopelessness, loss of appetite, disturbed sleep and other physical symptoms.28. Electroconvulsive Therapy [ECT]: The use of electric shock to induce brief, generalized seizures, used in the treatment of selected psychological disorders.29. Seasonal Affective Disorder [SAD]: A mood disorder characterized by seasonal depression, usually occurring in winter when there is less daylight.30. Mania: A mood disorder characterized by excessive elation, irritability, talkativeness, inflated self-esteem and expansiveness.31. Bipolar disorder: A mental illness characterized by alternating periods of depression and mania.32. Schizophrenia: A psychological disorder that involves a disturbance in thinking and perceiving