L2- mental health Flashcards
What is the definition of mental health?
- easier to define when you dont have mental health
- abnormal psychology: ‘not normal’ or when behaviour goes wrong.
- WHO definition: “a state of week being whereby individuals recognise their abilities, are able to cope with normal stresses of life, work productively and fruitfully to make a contribution to their communities
What are the four parameters? What are these for? Can these define what mental health is?
show the norms within parameters, which show on a ‘spectrum’ an individuals qualities and if they are “normal/ abnormal”
Not one parameter can help to define mental health conditions . But use of several can provide help.
Statistical norms
Social normals
Maladaptive behaviour
Distress
What is stigma of mental health
🗣Crisp et al 2000
1700 people; questionaires on perception of those with mental health disorders
- people with MHD are dangerous
- issues such as eating disorders and substance abuse are viewed a self conflicted
- people with mental health problems are hard to talk to
How common are health problems
APMS 2007:
1 in 4 people have has at least one mental health disorder
APMS 2014 found within 1993 and 2014 there was a 20% rise in mhd numbers
How has the perception of mental health issues changed over time
-drastically more accepted
Perception of what was a MHD used to be gay and also brain damage.
How has the treatment for mental health disorders changed?
- blood letting
- cutting brain parts and body parts out
- asylums
- shocktherapy
What are the models for explaining MHD? How these have changed over time
Demonology, to a medical model (biological causes), to a psychological model (underlying cognitive causes)
Today, biological and psychological are considered.
What are the four psychological models?
-psychoanalysis model=
Freud
Defence mechanisms
Difficult to test
-behavioural model
Skinner etc
Behaviour therapy
Not applicable to all disorders
-cognitive model
Beck
Cbt
Most widely used
-humanist model
Rogers
Client centred therapy
Difficult to test
What are the problems with DSM IV
Labelling- may lead to stigma
Categorisation- conflicts with the idea of continuums
Comorbidity-clients often have more than one mental health problem
What is the difference between DSM|V and DSMV
New features: lifespan approach, cultural context, more distinct chapters and more linking to distinct disorders.
DSMV now includes
- some dimensionality
- some syndromes
- includes cultural context
- each chapter has a chronological approach
What are the new features of the DSM V?
- lifespan approach
- cultural context
- more distinct chapters
- more linking to distinct disorders
What is the DSM used for?
To define conditions of mental health
