4.2.2 - Mental Wellbeing

Question 1

Wellbeing

Answer 1

a state in which an individual is mentally, physically and socially healthy and secure

Question 2

Mental Wellbeing

Answer 2

an individual’s psychological state, including their ability to think, process information, and regulate emotions

Question 3

Mental wellbeing continuum

Answer 3

a tool used to track fluctuating mental wellbeing

Question 4

4 D’s

Answer 4

DISTRESS, DYSFUNCTION, DEVIATION, DURATION

Question 5

Mentally healthy

Answer 5

positive state of wellbeing, managing life’s stressors to meet the demands of everyday life to regulate emotions and striving to achieve goals

Question 6

Mentally healthy eg

Answer 6

• Function independently
• High levels of resilience
• Regulating emotions to suit the situation
• High levels of functioning
• Striving to achieve goals

Question 7

Mental health problem

Answer 7

affects the way a person thinks, feels and behaves, is more mild/less severe and a shorter duration than MD

Question 8

Mental health problem eg

Answer 8

• Not functioning at optimal individual level
• Doesn’t require a diagnosis
• Struggling to concentrate
• Temporary amplified emotions

Question 9

Internal factors

Answer 9

biological, psychological

Question 10

INTERNAL FACTORS: Biological

Answer 10

genetic predisposition, neurotransmitter function, sex, hormones, immune function, nervous system activity and physical health

Question 11

INTERNAL FACTORS: psychological

Answer 11

states of thinking (e.g rumination), beliefs and attitudes, emotions, learning and memory and personality traits

Question 12

External Factors

Answer 12

social

Question 13

EXTERNAL FACTORS: social

Answer 13

loss of significant relationship, level of education, experiencing difficulty (school, work), access to support services, early life experience, income, social support, stability of accommodation, experience of abuse, cultural values, employment and discrimination

Question 14

Stress

Answer 14

a psychological and physiological experience that occurs when an individual encounters something of significance that demands their attention and/or efforts to cope

Question 15

Anxiety

Answer 15

a psychological and physiological response that involves feelings of worry and apprehension about a perceived threat

Question 16

Stress and anxiety differences

Answer 16

• S=known cause A=can be unknown
• S =positive (eustress) and negative (distress) A=only negative (distress)

Question 17

Stress and anxiety similarities

Answer 17

• Both psychological and physiological
• Both can contribute to a mental disorder

Question 18

Phobia

Answer 18

a type of diagnosable anxiety disorder that is categorised by excessive and disproportionate fear when encountering or anticipating the encounter of a particular stimulus (heights, spiders, small spaces_

Question 19

Specific phobia often aware that their levels of fear and anxiety is disproportionate to the phobic stimulus -> unable to control these feelings -> due to sympathetic nervous system is dominant when an individual is exposed to their phobic stimulus -> result in physiological stress responses;

Answer 19

• Increased heart rate
• Rapid breathing
• Increased perspiration
• Dilated pupils

Question 20

For it to be a phobia a person must;

Answer 20

• Experience or the anticipation of experience of the object or situation as extremely anxiety-provoking, if not terrifying
• Must seek to avoid or minimise exposure to the object or situation
• Be impaired in their social and occupational functioning as a consequence
• Acknowledge the fear is unreasonable
• The person may adapt their lifestyle to take into account their phobia