1 Mental Health + Mental Illness

Question 1

Mental health

Answer 1

state of well-being in which individuals reach their own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively, and contribute to the community.

Question 2

Mental Illness

Answer 2

all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses -manifested in significant dysfunctions that may be r/t developmental, biological, or psychological disturbances in mental functioning

Question 3

Well being

Answer 3

• occasional to mild stress
• no impairment
• high level functioning

Question 4

Emo problems or concerns

Answer 4

• mild-mod stress
• mild/temporary impairment
  ex) mild depression, gen anxiety disordr, ADD

Question 5

Mental Illness

Answer 5

• mod to disabling
• altered thinking, mood, + behavior
• chronic or long-term
  ex) depressn, anxt, schizo

Question 6

Resilience

Answer 6

• assoc w adaptability to change + trauma

- ability/capacity for ppl to secure the resource they need to support their well being

Question 7

diathesis-stress model

Answer 7

diathesis represents biological predisposition + stress represents environmental stress/trauma

• most accepted explanation for mental illness
• nature+ nurture

Question 8

DSM-5

diagnostic + statistical manual

Answer 8

• provides criteria for psych disorders

- provides basis for dvlpmnt of comprehensive + approp interventions