Chapter 2, 3, &4 Flashcards
What is mental health?
State of well-being where the person realizes their own abilities, can cope with stress, work productively, and contribute to society
To be considered healthy, what must be true?
You are mentally healthy.
What is cultural idiom of distress?
A linguistic term or way of talking about suffering among individuals of a cultural group (Susto)
What are the 8 dimensions of wellness?
Emotional Financial Social Spiritual Occupational Physical Intellectual Environmental
Dimension of wellness: emotional
Coping effectively and creating relationships
Dimension of wellness: financial
Satisfaction with present and future situations, basic human needs
Dimension of wellness: social
Developing connection, belonging, and support system
Dimension of wellness: spiritual
Sense of purpose and meaning in life
Dimension of wellness: occupational
Personal satisfaction and enrichment from work
Dimension of wellness: physical
Need for healthy food, sleep, and physical activity
Dimension of wellness: intellectual
Creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills
Dimension of wellness environmental
Being in a pleasant and stimulating environment
What is wellness?
Having purpose in life, being happy, having satisfaction in work and play, joyful relationships. It is not the absence of disease or stress
Why are people with mental health problems more likely to die decades earlier than the general public from preventable diseases?
They face social, economics, and environment problems that lead them to have lack of health care, information, and linguistic competent care programs
Mental disorder/illness
A syndrome, or set of symptoms that cluster together that may have multiple causes and may represent several different disease states that have not yet been defined
How are mental illnesses/disorders diagnosed?
Through clusters of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. NOT by biological pathways like blood work or scans
What mental illness is the leading disease burden in middle and high-income countries like the US?
Depression
Epidemiological research
Study of patterns or disease distribution and deft infants of health within populations. It does not determine the cause of illness, but examines associations.
Rate
Cases in population/ total population
Average rate is used for measures that are over specified time periods
Prevalence
Total number of people who have the disorder within a given population at a specified time with no regard of how long ago the disorder started
Point prevalence
Cases at T/ population at T
Who has a disorder at a specific time (ex: April 1, 2020)
What is the DSM-5?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental health disorders
It organizes and diagnoses mental disorders according to behavior and symptom patterns.
What is not included in the DSM-5?
Cultural syndromes don’t meet the criteria. If a behavior is outside of the social norms then it would be considered a mental disorder
What does The World Health Organization’s Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 do?
It measures the amount of impairment a person experiences
_______ becomes difficult when the mental disorder impairs the persons ability to perform ADLs and self-care
Recovery
What is Ataque De Nervios?
It is a cultural syndrome
Frequent episodes of loss of control, uncontrollable crying, tremors, and severe anxiety with somatization symptoms like muscle/headaches, loss of appetite, or insomnia.
Who most commonly experiences Ataque De Nervios?
Women over 45 with little education and who have experienced a loss (divorce) or acute distress.
Define nervios
Idiom in Hispanic culture to describe a wide range of somatic and emotional symptoms like headache, irritability, nervousness, insomnia and difficulty concentrating
What is Susto?
A cultural idiom of distress
Fright characterized by symptoms of psychomotor agitation, anorexia, fever, diarrhea, confusion, apathy and depression following emotional trauma or witnessing a traumatic event.
It causes the soul to leave the body according to Central/South America
Cultural syndrome
Group of co-occurring symptoms that happen in 1 culture
What is a stigma?
It is a stereotype and offers major barriers to treatments, recovery, and social integration. These are often negative
Public stigma
A person is public ally “marked” as having a mental illness. These people are at risk for discrimination and prejudice. Common stereotypes are dangerous, unpredictable, etc.
Self-stigma
Occurs when negative stereotypes are internalized by people with mental illness. Patients become aware of the negative public view on mental illness and agree with pubic view. They develop low self-esteem
“I have mental illness, therefore, I am incompetent”
Label avoidance
Avoiding treatment or care to not be labeled as mentally ill and avoid the stigma.
Asian cultures often ignore mental illnesses
______ is the single most important goal of having a mental illness
Recovery
What is recovery?
Process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness. It focuses on illnesses
What are the 4 requirements for recovery?
Health, home, purpose, community
Recovery-oriented treatment
Based on belief that mental illness and disturbances are treatable and recover is an expectation
T/F
Trauma is a universal experience for people with mental and substance abuse disorders
True
What are some guiding principles of recovery? (9 things)
Recovery is hope, person driven, holistic, supported by peers, supported by relationships, culturally based and influenced, based on respect, supported by addressing trauma, and involves individual/family/community
All cultural groups possess what 3 things?
They have the same beliefs, values, and patterns of accepted behavior
What is culture?
A way of life for people who identify with one another on the basis of some common purpose, need, or similar background as well as the learned socially transmitted beliefs, values, and behaviors. Culture is dynamic and includes race, ethnicity, age, gender, etc.
Cultural competence
The ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures which involves academic and interpersonal skills that are respectful to health beliefs/practices, and linguistic needs
Health literacy
Ability to use reading, writing, and verbal numerical skills in the context of health
What are the 4 domains for promoting health literacy?
Spoken communication
Written communication
Self-management and empowerment
Supportive systems
_____% of white people live below poverty level
12.3%
___% of blacks live below poverty level
26.4%
___% of Hispanic Americans live below poverty level
20.9%
____% of people below the poverty line is single moms and their kids
22.2%
Hispanic Americans have what view on mental health?
Use all other resources before going to a medical professional. They are the largest underrepresented group in the US.
Barriers: cost of care, availability of services, immigration status, and they believe facilities don’t accommodate their cultural needs
Blacks and African Americans have what viewpoint of mental health?
They believe that youth should be self-reliant and solve their own problems, they don’t trust their providers, and care is not affordable.
Often misdiagnosed with schizophrenia
Blacks and African Americans face what double stigma?
Double stigma from their culture and longtime racial discrimination
Asian Americans, Polynesians, and Pacific Islanders view on mental health
They deny or disguise their mental illness which can be characterized by fatigue, weakness, poor concentration, memory loss, irritability, and sleep disturbances.