Psychosocial needs
Involve social interaction, emotions, intellect, & spiritually
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Holistic care
Caring for the whole person- the minds as well as the body
Sexual orientation
Person's physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction to another person
Gender identity
Deeply felt sense of one's gender
Bisexual, Bi
Attraction may be for people of same gender or different gender
Cisgender
Person whose gender identity matches his or her birth sex (sex assigned at birth due to anatomy)
Coming out
Continual process for revealing one's sexual orientation or gender identity to others
Cross-dresser
Typically heterosexual man who sometimes wears clothing or other items associated with women
Gay
Attraction for people of same sex
Heterosexual
Attraction for people of opposite sex
Lesbian
Woman attracted to other women
LGBT
Acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
LGBTQ
Acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (or questioning)
Queer
Term used by some people who feel terms such as lesbian and gay are too limiting
Transgender
A person whose gender identity conflicts with his or her birth sex
Transition
Process of changing genders
Spiritual
Means of or relating to the spirit or soul
Buddhism
Emphasize medication. Believe that life is filled with suffering that is caused by designer and it end when desire ends.
Reincarnation
Repeating sequence of births and deaths
Christianity
Believe Jesus Christ was the son of god and that he died for our sins to be forgiven
Hinduism
Dominant faith of India, four purposes of life (Dharma, Aretha, Kama, & Moksha)
Karma
Result of actions in past life and actions in this life can determine one's destiny in future lives
Yarmulke
Small skullcap worn by Jewish men
Agnositics
Believe that they do not know or cannot know if God exists, do not deny that God might exists but they feel there is no true knowledge of God's existence
Atheists
People who believe that there is no God
Dietary restrictions
Rules about what and when followers can eat and drink
Fasting
Not eating food or eating very little food
Vegetarians
Do not eat meat for religious, moral or health reasons
Vegans
Do not eat any animals or animal products such as eggs or dairy products
Premature
Babies born before 37 weeks' gestation (more than three weeks before the due date)
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Condition in which babies stop breathing and die for no known reason while asleep
Cognitive
Ability to logically think
Chickenpox
Highly contagious, viral illness
Leukemia
Form of cancer, inability of body's white blood cells to fight disease
Bulimia
Binges then purges or vomiting
Trauma
Severe injury to head or spinal cord
Menopause
End of menstruation, ovaries stop secreting hormones
Geriatrics
Study of health, wellness, and disease later in life
Gerentology
Study of aging process in people from midlife through old age
Ageism
Discrimination against older persons or elderly
Development disabilities
Disabilities that are present at birth or emerge during childhood