Introduction to Psychological Intervention 1

Question 1

What is the prevalence of Anxiety and Depression?

Answer 1

1 in 6 people

Question 2

How many family members are mentally ill?

Answer 2

1/3 of families include someone who is mentally ill

Question 3

How much mental illness accounts for out of all illnesses?

Answer 3

Mental illness accounts for 40% of all illness

Question 4

What is the average percentage of people not getting treatment?

Answer 4

75% never get treatment

Question 5

As many people kill themselves as die from_______?

Answer 5

war & homicide

Question 6

____% of British teenagers have tried to kill or harm themselves

Answer 6

7%

Question 7

_____% 5-16 year olds suffer from a serious mental health problem

Answer 7

10%

Question 8

50% of serious mental illnesses begin in _______

Answer 8

childhood

Question 9

_______ living with long term physical & mental health problems

Answer 9

4.6 million

Question 10

What is sate mental health?

Answer 10

“A positive state of mind and body, feeling safe and able to cope, with a sense of connection with people, communities and the wider environment.”

Question 11

What influences the level of mental health?

Answer 11

Levels of mental ‘health’ are influenced by:
1 the conditions people are born into
2 grow up in
3 live and work in
Examples, including; access to social support, work, a sense of belonging, quality of housing and levels of crime.

Question 12

Why improving wellbeing and mental health is important?

Answer 12

Researches indicated that improving wellbeing: including mental wellbeing, has a wide range of health, social and economic benefits.

Question 13

What are the benefits of high mental well-being?

Answer 13

1 Reduced risk of mental illness and suicide
2 Reduced health risk behaviours such as smoking. alcohol and drug use
3 Reduced antisocial behaviour and criminality
4 Improved physical health and life expectancy
5 Improved employment rates and productivity
6 Better educational attainment
7 Higher levels of social interaction and participation
8 Supporting recovery and reducing stigma and discrimination faced by people with mental health problems

Question 14

True or false: Mental health is the absence of mental illness or good physical health.

Answer 14

Mental health is more than the absence of mental illness or good physical health. People with good mental health have more positive charactristics.

Question 15

What are the characteristics of people with good mental/emotional health? 8

Answer 15

People:
o Sense of belonging:
Feeling close to family members, friends, co-workers, and enjoying relationships which makes their life meaningful.
Self:
o Self-sufficiency:
Having the confidence to make responsible decisions promotes your sense of independence and self-assurance.
o Healthy self-esteem:
Having healthy self-esteem helps you accept and recover from difficulties and failures.
o Self-actualization
ability to reach your full potential
o Sense of purpose and self-worth:
Recognizing that you have value and importance as a person lets you set and reach goals.
Future:
o Positive outlook:
Seeing the bright side of life reduces stress and increases your chances of success.
Present and past:
o Resilience:
Ability to cope well with stressors and life difficulties.
o Other Personal characteristics
such as flexibility, ability to balance life roles (personal, social, work)

Question 16

What are the ten Leading Causes of Disability in the World?

Answer 16

1 Unipolar major depression
2 Tuberculosis
3 Road traffic accidents
4 Alcohol use
5 Self-inflicted injuries
6 Manic-depressive (bipolar) illness
7 War
8 Violence
9 Schizophrenia
10 Iron deficiency anemia

Question 17

How bad is Mental disorders is affecting the world?

Answer 17

• 2nd greatest contributor to shortened life

- source of significant human suffering throughout the ages of patient, of family, and of community.

Question 18

What people thought about Madness – lunacy – insanity?

Answer 18

o to be a curse (and/or gift) from god(s)
o to be a source of criminality (moral insanity)
o to be a natural symptom of a sick society

Question 19

What are the benifits of Viewing mental illness as medial disease (medical model)?

Answer 19

• Have natural causes mental disorders are related to the physical structure and functioning of the brain (genetics, neurotransmitters)
• Have symptoms Ex. Schizophrenia, depression
• Worthy of care
• (Potentially) curable

Question 20

What are the downsides of Viewing mental illness as medial disease (medical model)?

Answer 20

o Drug treatment, relapse when drugs discontinue
o Dependency on drugs, side effects, treating symptoms only
o Cost of treatment
o Focusing on physical causes vs. environmental, psychological causes
o Labeling and discriminations

Question 21

What is abnormal and how it related to mental disorder?

Answer 21

• deviate in some way from the norm.

- All mental disorders involve abnormal mental states and behaviors.

Question 22

Mental disoders are abnormal mental states and behaviors? true or false

Answer 22

• But, not all mental states/behaviors that deviate from the norm should be considered mental disorders.
  Therefore, Mental disorder is not only abnormal mental states and behaviors; this not a good definition (at least not by itself).

Question 23

What are the other key of mental disorder?

Answer 23

Other than Mental states/behaviors that deviate from norms, mental disorders Involves disturbances in behavior, thought, or emotion, and stems from internal dysfunction: biological, psychological, social

Question 24

When is it a dysfunction?

Answer 24

Involves significant personal distress or impairment.

Question 25

What if the person isn’t distressed?

Answer 25

Historically, what has mattered more is other people’s distress.