Ch. 9 Mental Health Flashcards
Mental health
The psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioural adjustment.
Mental health problem
A disruption to an individual’s usual level of social and emotional wellbeing.
Resilience
An individual’s ability to properly adapt to stress and cope with adversity.
Mental disorder
The psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioural problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention
Hypochondria
A preoccupation with minor bodily problems and the presence of illnesses that appear to be imaginary.
Risk factors
Factors that impede or have a negative effect on the health of an individual.
Predisposing risk factors
Factors that increase vulnerability to develop a mental health problem.
Precipitating risk factors
Factors that trigger the onset or exacerbation of a mental health problem.
Perpetuating risk factors
Factors the prolong the course of the mental health problem and inhibit recovery.
Protective risk factors
Factors that enhance or have a positive effect on the health of an individual.
Biopsychosocial model
An approach that proposes that health and illness outcomes are determined by the interaction of biological, psychological and social factors.
Rumination
The compulsively focused attention on the symptoms of one’s distress and on its possible causes and consequences, as opposed to its solutions.
Self-efficacy
An individual’s belief in their capacity to execute behaviours necessary to produce specific performance attainments.
Biological risk factors
Genetic vulnerability
Poor responses to medication
Poor sleep
Substance use
Psychological risk factors
Rumination
Impaired reasoning and memory
Stress
Poor self-efficacy
