Chapter 8 - Mental Wellbeing

Question 1

Define mental wellbeing

Answer 1

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

Question 2

High levels of functioning

Answer 2

• Carry out basic everyday tasks, such as maintaining personal hygiene and dressing appropriately
• Be productive in completing daily tasks
• Set goals and take steps towards
  achieving them
• Be independent
• Adapt to changes in the environment.

Question 3

Low levels of functioning

Answer 3

• Struggle to carry out basic tasks
• Unproductive in achieving tasks
• Lack of direction or be able to set goals in life
• Be unable to cope with changes in the environment.

Question 4

High levels of resilience

Answer 4

• Seek solutions to problems
• Use appropriate coping strategies
• Be flexible in changing circumstances
• Be optimistic and hopeful.

Question 5

Low levels of resilience

Answer 5

• Experience enduring feelings of being overwhelmed when problems arise
• Rely on unhealthy or unhelpful coping strategies
  -Be unable to adapt to change
• Lack of hope and optimism.

Question 6

Social wellbeing

Answer 6

Involves the ability of an individual to form and maintain meaningful bonds with others, and adapt to different social situations

Question 7

Emotional wellbeing

Answer 7

Ability for an individual to appropriately control and express their own emotions in an adaptive way, as well as understand the emotions of others

Question 8

High levels of social wellbeing

Answer 8

• Have a strong support network
• Be able to form and maintain meaningful
  relationships
• Be able to effectively communicate with others.

Question 9

Low levels of social wellbeing

Answer 9

• Isolated or lack support from others
• Have difficulty forming and maintaining
  meaningful relationships
• Struggle to effectively communicate with others.

Question 10

High levels of emotional wellbeing

Answer 10

• Be aware of their own and others’ current emotional state
• Experience a wide range of emotions
• Express emotions at appropriate times.

Question 11

Low levels of emotional wellbeing

Answer 11

• Be unable to understand or name their own and others’ emotions
• Feel numb or be unable to experience certain emotions
• Express emotions inappropriately

Question 12

Internal factors

Answer 12

Factors that arise from within the individual

Question 13

External factors

Answer 13

Factors that arise from an individual’s environment

Question 14

Stress

Answer 14

Is 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

Stress dot points

Answer 15

• Normal part of day-to-day life
• Distress and Eustress
• Stress is usually in response to a known cause, which differentiates it from anxiety.

Question 16

Anxiety

Answer 16

psych + physio response that involves feelings of worry and apprehension about a perceived threat.

Question 17

Anxiety dot points

Answer 17

• Anxiety typically only involves negative feelings (distress)
• May be due to an unknown stimulus
• Future-oriented, meaning that it involves worrying about events that may happen in the future

Question 18

Specific phobia

Answer 18

• Excessive fear when encountering or anticipating the encounter of a particular stimulus
• Diagnosable anxiety disorder

Question 20

Physical chnages through specific phobia exposure

Answer 20

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