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Lecture 1- Defining Mental Health and Wellbeing Flashcards

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What is health?

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A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO, 1946)

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What is mental health?

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A state of wellbeing in which every individual realises their own potential, can cope with common stresses of life, can work productively and successfully.

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What does mental health influence?

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How we think, feel and act

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What is mental health important to?

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Personal, community and socio-economic development

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What are the factors for mental health

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Risk and protective factors

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What do risk factors do to mental health?

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Undermine mental health

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What are examples of risk factors?

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Climate crisis, poor quality infrastructure, poor access to services, injustice, health emergencies, social exclusion

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What do personal factors do to mental health?

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Enhance mental health

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What are examples of personal factors?

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Genetic factors, low education, alcohol, drug use, unhealthy diet, vitamin D deficiency

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What does the interaction between vulnerability and stressors cause?

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Life events and chronic stressors

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What is mental health condition?

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A broad term covering mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities

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What are the risk factors for mental health conditions?

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Conflict, disease outbreaks, social injustice, discrimination, disadvantage

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When do risk factors effect mental health conditions?

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During developmentally sensitive periods

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How does socially marginalisation effect mental health conditions?

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Greater risk of mental health conditions and more difficulty accessing health services

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How does gender and ethnic grouping effect mental health conditions?

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Increase risk of social exclusion and economic adversity

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What does mental health condition disturb?

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Our thoughts and feelings and change behaviours

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What is a mental disorder?

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Syndrome characterised by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation or behaviour that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological biological or developmental processes

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What is the cycle of mental ill-health?

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Starts in birth, poor parenting, poor education, violence, reduced livelihood, mental health conditions, alcohol and drug use, risk taking behaviours

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How does mental ill-health link to poverty?

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Less access to health care, stigma to undermine social support structure, less financial resources to maintain living standards

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What protective factors build resilience?

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Positive parenting, quality education and employment

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What is the aim of the WHO initiative for mental health?

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Increasing mental health care provision to reduce suffering and improve public health and protection of human rights

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What does wellbeing mean?

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The state of feeling healthy and happy, needs to be culturally inclusive for international comparisons

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What are the philosophies for wellbeing?

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Hedonism and eudemonism

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What is the hedonistic view?

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Subjective wellbeing, positive mood, focus on pleasure

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What is the eudemonist view?

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Focus on self- actualisation, personal growth and psychological wellbeing

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What does Waterman say about personal expressiveness?

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Living in accordance to daimon (true self). There should be personal expressiveness and hedonistic enjoyment

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Who looked at the different types of wellbeing?

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La Placa

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What are the 4 different types of wellbeing?

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Individual, community, family and societal

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What is individual wellbeing?

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An active agent to interpret wellbeing that has positive and negative multidimensional evaluations

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What is family wellbeing?

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Negative evaluations about life and work. Families provide resources that can increase or decrease wellbeing

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What is community wellbeing?

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Social, cultural and psychological needs of individuals that can contribute to spiritual, physical and psychological wellbeing

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What is societal wellbeing?

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A positive or negative state from individuals focusing on relations with others where basic needs are met

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Who looked at societal wellbeing?

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Wilkinson and Pickett

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What did Wilkinson and Pickett find?

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Societal wellbeing raises issues around structural social inequalities

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What is used to assess wellbeing?

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SWB (subjective wellbeing)

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What does the SWB assess?

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Happiness through life satisfaction, presence of positive mood and absence of negative mood

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What scale was used to improve wellbeing?

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Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale

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What are the 5 themes of the WEMWBS?

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Psychological, social, arts+culture+environment, physical health promotion and other

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What are the psychological interventions?

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Mindfulness intervention studies, psychoeducation intervention studies, CBT, resilience, self management and wellness

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What interventions (psychological) had a moderate effect?

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Mindfulness intervention studies, psychoeducation intervention studies, CBT

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What interventions (psychological) had a large effect?

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Resilience, self management and wellness

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What are the social interventions?

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Support interventions, parenting intervention studies, community/peer support, social prescribing intervention

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Which social intervention had no effect?

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Community/peer support

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What social intervention had a positive effect?

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Support intervention (6 reported + effect)

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What social intervention had a moderate effect?

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Parenting and social prescribing

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What impact did art have on wellbeing?

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Strong, 75% improvement pre and post

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What impact did physical health interventions have?

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14/18 had a moderate effect and 4 studies on health promotion had a + effect

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What is mental health epidemiology?

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Study of the distribution of mental disorders in a given population

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What is prevalence?

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Number of active cases in a population at any given period of time in a percentage

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What is incidence?

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The number of new cases that occur over a given time

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What are the three types of prevalence?

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Point, 1 year and life time

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What is point prevalance?

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Estimated proportion of active cases of a condition in a given population at a given point in time

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What is 1 year prevalence?

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Everyone who experienced condition at any point in time throughout entire year

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What is life time prevalence?

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Number of people with a particular condition at any time in their lives includes both currently ill and recovered individuals

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What did Kirkbridge et al find?

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In UK schizophrenia is 3 more likely to develop in ethnic minorities than the white population

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What did Steel et al find about common mental health condition in the past 12 months?

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17.6% and 29.2% in the lifetime

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What did Steel et al find out about females in mental health conditions?

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Females are more likely to experience mood or anxiety condition

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What did Steel et al find out about males in mental health conditions?

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Males more likely to experience alcohol or substance abuse

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What disorders are most common?

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Anxiety and depressive disorders

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When are anxiety disorder most prevalent?

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At early ages

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When is depressive disorders most common?

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In adults

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When does prevalence vary for conditions?

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With sex and age

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What happened to depression and anxiety in COVID?

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Increase 28% for depression and 26% for anxiety in young age groups than older

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What are the symptoms of mental health conditions?

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Personal distress, maladaptive behaviour, violating statistical norms, violating a societal norms, social discomfort, irrationality and predictability, dangerousness

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What is dangerousness?

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If the person is a danger to themselves or others

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What did Corrigan and Watson find?

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People with mental illness dangerousness is more the expection than the rule

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What is irrationality and unpredictability?

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Evaluation if the person can control their behaviour

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What is social discomfort?

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When someone violates an implicit social rule causing others to experience discomfort

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What is personal distress?

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Low mood, worry and depression. It doesn’t apply to all disorders

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What does personal distress apply to?

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Adaptive responses such as conflict

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What does maladaptive behaviour apply to?

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The individual, to those around the individual and to society

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What is an example of maladaptive behaviour to the individual?

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Agoraphobia

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What is an example of maladaptive behaviour to those around the individual?

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Depression through isolation from friends and family

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What is an example of maladaptive behaviour to society?

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Sick leave and lost work productivity

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What is violating statistical norms?

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Rate and infrequent behaviour being maladaptive when it is away from the norm

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What is violating a societal norm?

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Not following the conventional social and moral rules of the cultural group that can vary over time such as homosexuality

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What are the advantages of classifying mental disorders?

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Makes a common nomenclature, enables us to structure information helpful, we can identify causes and treatment of disorders

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What are the disadvantages of classifying mental disorders?

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Stigma of having a mental disorder, stereotyping others, loss of information, labelling change in self-concept

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What is stigma?

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Fear and a deterrent for seeking treatment and perpetuation of labelling

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What did Ruscio find?

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A diagnosis can reduce stigma as it provides an explanation of a person’s behaviour

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What did Clement et al find?

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Stigma makes people reluctant to seek help

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What did Graves et al find?

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People tend to avoid those with mental illnesses as there is unpleasant psychophysiological arosal

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What are the categorical approaches to classification?

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Presence/absence of a symptom pattern, a qualitative differences between normal and abnormal

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What are the dimensional approaches to classification?

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Symptoms vary on a continuum, differences are quantitative rather than qualitiative

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How does culture effect mental disorder?

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Shapes the clinical presentation of disorders such as depression

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What did Kleinman find?

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In China individuals with depression focus on physical concerns rather than verbalising feelings

87
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Who explained mental disorders?

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Kraemer et al

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What did Kraemer et al look at?

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If there is association between two variables, if there is a yes they correlate if no then they don’t correlate. If there is a correlation then one variable precedes the others

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What is a necessary cause?

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If X is a characteristic that will exist for a disorder to occur

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What is a sufficient cause?

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If one variable occurs then the other will

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What is a contributory cause?

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If one variable occurs then the probability of other variable occurring increases

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How is mental health conditions explained in ancient times?

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Demonic possession

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What are the theoretical approaches to mental health conditions?

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Biological, psychological and sociocultural and biopsychological

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