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Mental Wellbeing

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The ability to cope with stress in life it involves our emotionally, psychologically and socially being healthy and secure

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Levels of functioning

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refers to the degree to which an individual can complete day to day tasks in an independent and effective manner.

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High levels of functioning

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  • carry out everyday basic tasks

-productive in daily tasks

-set goals and take steps to achieve them

-independent

-adapt to changes in environment

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Low levels of functioning

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  • Struggle to carry out everyday tasks
  • feeling tired which decreases productivity
  • lack direction or able to set goals in life

-unable to cope with changes in the environment

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Resilience

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ability to cope and manage change and uncertainty

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High levels of Resilience

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  • seek solutions to problems
  • use appropriate coping strategies
  • flexible in changing circumstances
  • optimistic and hopeful
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Low levels of resilience

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  • experience enduring feelings of being overwhelmed when problems arise
  • rely on unhealthy or unhelpful coping strategies
  • be unable to adapt to change
  • lack hope and optimism
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Social wellbeing

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ability to form and maintain healthy relationships with others

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High levels of social wellbeing

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  • strong support network
  • able to form and maintain meaningful relationships
  • able to effectively communicate with others
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Low levels of social wellbeing

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  • isolated or lack support from others
  • difficulty forming and maintaining meaningful relationships
  • struggle to effectively communicate with others
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Emotional wellbeing

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ability to regulate one’s own emotions

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High levels of emotional wellbeing

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  • aware of own and other’s current emotional state
  • experience a wide range of emotions
  • express emotions at appropriate times
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Low levels of emotional wellbeing

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  • unable to understand or name their own emotions and other’s
  • unable to experience certain emotions
  • express emotions at inappropriate times
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Multidimensional

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made up of different components

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holistic

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reflects an approach to wellbeing that considers the whole person including mental, social, physical and spiritual needs.

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Mental Wellbeing as a continuum

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changes over time depending on the person’s psychological state at that point in time

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Stress

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A psychological and physiological response that occurs when something demands attention or effort to cope

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Anxiety

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psychological and physiological response that involves feelings of worry and apprehension about a percieved threat

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Specific Phobia

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excessive or disproportionate fear over a particular stimulus

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Similarities between anxiety and stress

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both on the ‘functioning’ on the Mental Health continuum

Experienced from time to time

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Differences between anxiety and stress

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Stress - response to a threat in a situation

Anxiety - reaction to the stress

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Protective factors

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influences that enable an individual to promote and maintain high levels of MWB

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Biological PF

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Adequate hydration, sleep and nutrition

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Psychological PF - Cognitive Behavioural Strategies

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Cognitive - Replacing dysfunctional thoughts with functional ones

Behavioural - Replacing dysfunctional behaviour with functional ones

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Psychological PF - Meditation

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focus on present experiences to promote calmness and peacefulness

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Social PF

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Genuine and effective assistance from friends, family and other close people/community

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Biological Factors - GABA Dysfunction

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The insufficient neural transmission or reception to GABA in the body, it prevents overexcitation and uncontrolled firing of the PSN

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Biological Factors - LTP (Long Term Potentiation)

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long lasting and experiences that strengthen the synaptic connections which are regularly activated

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Precipitation

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Trigger, normally through Classical Conditioning

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perpetuation

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Maintain Phobia, normally through Operant Conditioning

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Cognitive Bias

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predisposition to think and process information in a certain way

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Memory Bias

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inaccurate or overexagerated memory of events that make the memory worse than what it was

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Catastrophic Thinking

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Event or stimulus is predicted to make it worse than it normally seems

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Social Factors - Specific Environmental Triggers

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Stimuli in someones environment that elicits an extreme stress response

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Social Factor - Stigma

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Feeling of shame or disgrace when seeking help

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Biological intervention - GABA agonist

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a type of drug that imitates neurotransmitters and works to imitate a neural response

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Biological Intervention - Benzodiazpenes

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anti anxiety drugs that lower the activity in the CNS. They are taken in small doses as they are addictive and makes you more drowsy

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Biological Intervention - Breathing Retaining

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slow breathing technique that manages the effects of hyperventilation. It calms the NS and lowers anxiety

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Psychological intervention - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

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Changes negative thoughts to positive behaviour, it uses a combination of verbal and behavioural techniques to help change irrational patterns of thinking.

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Psychological Intervention - Systematic Desenisitiation

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First teach relaxation techniques then if that fails they expose an individual to a fear heiarchy with slowly exposing higher levels of fear

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Social Intervention - Psychoeducation

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Challenging unrealistic thoughts and behaviours. Also discourages avoidance behaviours

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