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Defining wellbeing and mental health Flashcards

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Health

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A state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing, and not just the absence of disease or infirmity

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Mental health

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A state of wellbeing in which every individual realises their own potential, can cope with the common stresses of life, work successfully and make relationships

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Mental health condition

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Broad term covering mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities

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Mental disorder

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Syndrome characterised by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation or behaviour

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Psychosocial disability

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disability that occurs when individuals with long-term mental impairments are faced by barriers preventing them from fully participating in society

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Examples of psychosocial disability

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discrimination, stigma & exclusion

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Mental health (WHO)

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  • Basic human right
  • Influences how we think/feel
  • Just as important as physical health
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Mental ill-health linked to poverty

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  • Starts before birth
  • Less financial resources
  • Less able to access healthcare
  • Stigma and discrimination undermine social support structures
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Protective factors build resilience

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Protective factors include positive parenting, quality education and employment, safe neighbourhoods and community cohesion

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WHO initiative for mental health and wellbeing

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Aim: increase mental health care provision, 100 million more people

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Transformation towards better mental health for all

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  • Shifting attitudes to mental health
  • Reshape environments
  • Strengthen mental health care
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Shifting attitudes to mental health

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  • Value mental health as part of own health and wellbeing
  • A basic human right
  • Key part of health, social-wellbeing and sustainable development
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Reshape environments

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Reduce risks and strengthen protective factors

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Strengthen mental health care

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Community-based network of accessible, affordable and quality services

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Wellbeing (WHO) 1946

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Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

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How many articles on wellbeing have been published?

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Since 1999 over 170,000 have been published

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What do most researchers use?

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Assessment of subjective wellbeing (SWB)

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What is happiness?

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life satisfaction, presence of positive mood and absence of negative mood

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Wellbeing Hedonistic view:

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  • Subjective wellbeing
  • Positive mood
  • Avoidance of pain and negative mood
    Ryan & Deci, 2001
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Wellbeing Eudaimonic view:

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  • Psychological wellbeing
  • Self-actualisation
  • Personal growth
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Eudaimonic vs Hedonistic view:

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  • Waterman (1993) - Personal expensiveness
    • Live in accordance with their daimon (true self)
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Wellbeing (I Saw Elephants Playing Everywhere)

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  • Individual
  • Social
  • Economic
  • Political
  • Environment
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How much were the Greater London Authority funded for Well London?

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£9.46m by the BIG Lottery Fund (2007)

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What was phase 1 of Well London?

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developed & delivered in 30 of London’s most deprived neighbourhoods (35,000 people) and 17,000 participants

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Well London improvements on mental health %

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86% improvements in mental wellbeing, 83% in physical activity and 60% for healthy eating

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Well London - Heart of the Community Activities

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Positive psychology approaches to provide advice and information to increase people’s ability to bounce back from adversity

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Well London - Heart of the Community Activities: Haringey

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Complementary therapy for over 50s, Mosaic recycling project, Food for thought and living free training, coach trip to Southend

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Well London - Heart of the Community Activities: Waltham forest

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Women’s pampering session, camping trip and equipment, bike project, parent support group for autistic children

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Defining mental health conditions WHO

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Disturbances to a person’s mental health
→ Combination of troubled thoughts, emotions, behaviour and relationships with others

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Mental health epidemiology

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Study of distribution of mental health conditions

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Prevalence

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Number of active cases in a population at any given period of time (%)

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Incidence

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The number of new cases that occur over a given time - less than the prevalence as excludes existing cases

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Point prevalence

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Estimated proportion of active cases of a condition in a given population at any given point in time

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1 year prevalence

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Everyone who experienced condition at any point in time throughout entire year

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Life-time prevalence

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Number of people with a particular condition at any times in their lives
- Includes both currently ill and recovered individuals

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Findings from a 2014 study done by Steel et al, 136 studies suggested that:

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  • 17.6% experienced a common mental health condition within the past 12 months
  • 29.2% across their lifetime
  • Females more likely to experience mood or anxiety condition
  • Males more likely to experience alcohol or substance abuse
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Global 1 year prevalence (2019)

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  • Prevalence varies with sex & age
  • More women (13.5%, 508 M) c.f. men (12.55, 462 M)
  • Anxiety disorders become prevalent at an earlier age
  • In adults depressive disorders are the most common
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Depression and anxiety in times of COVID-19

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  • Significant increase in numbers of people living with depression and anxiety
  • Countries hardest hit by covid had the greatest increase in disorder prevalence
  • Greater increase in disorder prevalence in women
  • Greater increase among younger age groups than older ones
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DSM-5 Definition of mental disorders

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Mental disorders are clinically significant dysfunctions in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that cause distress in daily functioning.

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Violating a societal norm

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Not following the conventional social and moral rules of their cultural group, could be defined as problematic/disordered

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Homosexuality (WHO)

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considered a disorder by the WHO until 1980

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Violating a statistical norm

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  • Problematic/maladaptive - ‘Away from the norm’
  • Statistically infrequent behaviour could be considered maladaptive
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Personal distress

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Individuals with mental health condition experience distress

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Personal distress does not apply to all disorders

2 points

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  • Conduct disorders, antisocial personality disorder, highs in bipolar disorder
  • Can apply to adaptive/expected responses
    → Bereavement, war
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Disability or dysfunction in behaviour, to the individual:

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Agoraphobia: may become housebound

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Disability or dysfunction in behaviour, to those around the individual:

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Depression: might isolate themselves from friends and family

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Disability or dysfunction in behaviour: to society

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Absenteeism and sick leave, lost work productivity

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Defining a mental health condition

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  • Violation of societal norms
  • Statistical outlier
  • Personal distress
  • Impairing or disabling pattern of behaviour
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Why classify disorders?

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Identify meaningful clusters of maladaptive behaviour

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Classification

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  • Clear definitions of disorder
    • Useful for gathering statistics on disorders
  • Classification is frequently a work in progress
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Advantages of classifying mental disorders

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  • Provides us with common nomenclature
  • Enables us to structure information in a helpful manner
  • Enables us to identify causes and treatments of disorders we classify
  • Practical benefits: insurance reimbursement, recognition of problems
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Disadvantages of classifying mental disorders

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  • Any shorthand leads to the loss of information
  • Stigma of having a mental disorder
  • Stereotyping others
  • Labelling change in self-concept
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Approaches to classification: categorical

2 points

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  • Presence/absence of a symptom pattern
  • Qualitative differences between normal and abnormal
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Approaches to classification: dimensional

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  • Symptoms vary on a continuum
  • Differences are quantitative rather than qualitative
  • Worrying = general anxiety disorder
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How do we explain mental health conditions?: Genetic influences

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  • Most mental health conditions show some genetic influence
  • Abnormalities in genes or naturally occurring variations - polymorphisms
  • Inherit a large number of genes that interact to increase vulnerability
  • Genes affect behaviour indirectly, expression is influenced by internal or external environment
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How do we explain mental health conditions?: Genotype-environment interactions

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  • genetic factors can increase vulnerability when combined with significant stressors.
  • Genotype-environment interactions are hard to identify
    • Many different genetic risk factors, environmental events and large numbers needed for research studies

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