Definitions of Abnormality: Deviation from Ideal Mental Health

Question 1

What are the six elements in Jahoda’s (1958) conditions of ideal mental health?

Answer 1

• Self-attitudes.
• Personal growth and self-actualisation.
• Integration.
• Autonomy.
• Having an accurate perception of reality.
• Mastery of the enviroment.

Question 2

What are self-attitudes?

Answer 2

Having high self-esteem and a strong sense of indentity.

Question 3

What is personal growth and self-actualisation?

Answer 3

The extent to which a person develops their full capabilities.

Question 4

What is integration?

Answer 4

Being able to cope with stressful situations.

Question 5

What is mastery of the enviroment?

Answer 5

The ability to love, the ability to funtion at work and in interpersonal relationships, the ability to adjust to new situations and solve problems.

Question 6

What is a strength of Jahoda’s (1958) conditions of ideal mental health?

Answer 6

It’s a positive approach.

Question 7

What are the weaknesses of Jahoda’s (1958) conditions of ideal mental health?

Answer 7

• It’s an unrealistic criteria.
• Suggests mental health is the same as physical health.
• It’s culturaly relative.