deviation from ideal mental health

Question 1

marie johada

Answer 1

wrote a report for mental health
drew views of others and tried to identify common concepts that were used when describing mental health
6 categories refer to when describing mental health

Question 2

6 categories

Answer 2

enviromental mastery-succesfullu work, love and enjoy lesisure
self attitudes-e.g good self esteem
resitance to stress-can cope with stress
autonomy-independent
perception of relaity-rational and percieve yourself and the world accurtely
personal growth-sef actualisation (reach full potential)

Question 3

strength of ideal mental health

Answer 3

definition is postive. focuses on what people should be like rather than devaition
makes less of aneagtive judgament on them within society

Question 4

weakness of ideal mental health

Answer 4

criteria may be too strict
e.g difficult for a person to consisinetly meet all 6 criteria for ideal mental health
therefore, all considered to be abnormal at some pont
therefore, makes potentially invalid as a dfeinition of abnormality