Chapter 6- Mental illness across the lifespan

Question 1

What is mental illness?

Answer 1

Aka psychological dysfunction.
Involving:
Distress
impaired ability to cope with everyday life
thoughts feelings and behaviour that are not typical of the person
inappropriate to culture or society.

Question 2

Psychotic illness

Answer 2

 Psychotic illness- loss of contact with reality
 Difficult making sense of your thought/ feelings
 Live in a reality of their own mind
 Delusions (false beliefs that do not reflect reality)
 Hallucinations (hear, see, smell things that are not there)

Question 3

Non-psychotic illness

Answer 3

 Remain in touch with reality despite their dysfunctional thoughts, feelings and behaviours
 Intense and/or prolonged feeling of sadness, anxiety and fear
 Difficult coping with daily activities

Question 4

Incidence in Australia

Answer 4

 IN 2007, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) questioned 16-85 year olds.
Almost half (45%) indicated having had experienced a mental of illness at some stage in their life.
45% That is almost half!

Question 5

Outline of ADHD

Answer 5

Inattention and hyperactive behavior at home, school and social settings
Inappropriate to that person’s age
Impulsive behaviour
Attention problems
Hyperactivity and impulsive

Question 6

The Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

Answer 6

• The system most widely used by metal health professionals throughout the world to identify and classify mental illnesses for the purposes of diagnosis is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the DSM as it is more commonly called
• An important features of the DSM-IV-TR is that it does not suggest causes of specific disorders unless a cause can be definitely established
• It simple names the disorders and describes then in specific terms

Question 7

mental health problem

Answer 7

short term symptoms such as feeling sad or unhappy

Question 8

mental health illness

Answer 8

long term symptoms