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What is Mental Health?

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State of balance both within and with the environment

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Why is it important to have positive mental health?

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Realize abilities
Copes with the normal stresses in life
Works productively
Contribute to the community

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4 Determinant Dimensions of Mental Health

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Thoughts
Emotions
Body Reactions
Behavior

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Mental Health Frameworks

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Mental Health Continuum
Corey Keyes’ Dual Continuum Model
Flourishing Languishing
PERMA Model

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Flourshing

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mental stability

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Languishing

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Generally disinterested or dreary affect
Minimal goal-seeking behaviors

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Mental Health Continuum

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Healthy
Reacting
Injured
Ill

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Corey Keyes’ Dual Continuum Model

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flourishing wo illness
flourishing w illness
languishing wo illness
languishing w illness

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PERMA Model

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Positive emotion - cultivated/learned
Engagement - lives in present moment
Positive relationships
Meaningful life
Accomplishment - mastery from work

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Stress

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Tension, discomfort, or physical symptoms that arise when a stressor strains our ability to cope effectively

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Stressors

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Events that cause a stress reaction

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Eustress

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Optimal amount of stress needed to promote wellbeing

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Distress

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Effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors

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Traumatic Event

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Event so severe that has the potential to produce long-term psychological or health consequences

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Stress impact on PERCEPTION (Distress - Eustress)

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negative threat - positive challenge

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Stress impact on EMOTIONS (Distress - Eustress)

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anxiety - excitement

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Stress impact on PRODUCTIVITY (Distress - Eustress)

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procrastination - motivation

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Stress impact on PERFORMANCE (Distress - Eustress)

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diminution - enhancement

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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Study of the relationship between the immune system and central nervous system

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(T/F) People with serious mental health conditions are at high risk of experiencing chronic physical conditions

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True

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(T/F) People with chronic physical conditions are at risk of developing poor mental health

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True

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Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome

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All prolonged stressors take us through 3 stages of adaptation:
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion

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Coping Strategies

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Behavioral and psychological actions taken to master, tolerate, reduce or minimize the effect of stressors

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2 Ways of Coping

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Problem - focused
Emotion - focused

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Other ways of coping
Individual differences Gaining control Social support Healthy lifestyle
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Psychological Disorder
Collection of problems in thinking, in emotional responding or regulation, and in social behavior Form of deviant behavior that is bizarre, irrational or usually distressful
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4D’s (+1A) of Abnormality
Distress Deviance Dangerousness Dysfunction Absence of Pathology
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Distress (4D's)
Emotional or physical pain
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Deviance
Highly unusual behavior based on social/cultural norms
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Dangerousness
Potential harm to the self and others
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Dysfunction
disrupted ability to daily function
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Absence of Pathology
No signs of symptoms
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Chronic vs Acute
long duration low intensity; short duration high intensity
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Neurosis vs Psychosis
High levels of unrealistic anxiety; Loss contact with reality
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Common Known Causes of Abnormality
Heredity Biochemical factors Substance abuse Schizophrenogenic parenting and destructive family interactions Cultural differences Trauma Life stress
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Psychopathology
Study of abnormal behavior, the nature of disease including causes, development and outcomes
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Psychological Viewpoints of Psychopathology
Psychoanalytic theorists - stems from repressed conflicts Behaviorists - as learned Cognitive theorists - irrational beliefs and illogical patterns of thought
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Biopsychosocial Model
Biological factors Psychological factors Socio-cultral factors
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Biological factors
Behavior caused by biological changes in the chemical, structural, or genetic systems of the body
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Psychological factors
Cognition, mood, personality, and behavior Coping mechanisms, level of insight, intelligence, emotion regulation
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Socio-cultural factors
Cultural relativity Culture-bound Systems Situational Context
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Cultural relativity
need to consider the unique characteristics of culture in which behavior takes place
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Culture-bound Systems
disorders found only in a particular culture
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Situational context
social or environmental setting of a person’s behavior Subjective discomfort - emotional distress Maladaptive - does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life
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Stress Vulnerability Model
general disposition + bio-psychosocial stressors = mental illness
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Vulnerability
basic susceptibility to health disorders
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Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5)
Official listing of mental disorders; updates
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Generalized Anxiety Disorders: has to be as long as
Over at least a month
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Causes
* Biological: chemical imbalances in nervous system * Cognitive: illogical irrational thought processes (magnification, all or nothing thinking, overgeneralization, minimization) * Psychoanalytic: repressed urges and desires that are trying to come into conscious, * Behaviorists: learned through both positive and negative reinforcement
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Types
Panic - sudden and intense Phobic - persistent for specific cause Obsessive Compulsive - Repetition of normal doubts and routines Post Traumatic Stress - Develops through exposure to a traumatic event
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Bipolar Disorders
Mood is severely disturbed
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Manic
quality of excessive excitement, energy and elation or irritability
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Depressive
very “down”, sad, indifferent or hopeless periods
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Depressive Disorder
Suffer depression without mania; lethargy, loss of will to life and hopelessness lasting at least 2 weeks
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Depressive Disorder Causes
Learned helplessness Cognitive theories: Distorted, illogical thinking Biological: function of serotonin, norepinephrine
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Schizophrenia
highly disordered thought process, bizarre behavior, hallucinations, unable to distinguish reality between fantasy and reality
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Hallucination
break away from ability to perceive what is real and what is fantasy
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Delusions
false beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness
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Schizophrenia Types
Disorganized Paranoid Catatonic Undifferentiated
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Schizophrenia Causes
* Psychoanalytic: severe breakdown of ego, overwhelmed demands of id, results childish infantile behavior * Behaviorists: reinforcement, observational learning and shaping * Cognitive: severely irrational thinking * Biological explanation: dopamine, structural defects in the brain, inflammation and genetic influences
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Types of Therapy
Biological Psychotherapy
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Kinds of Bio Therapy
Pharmacotherapy - meds Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - electrical pulse
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Types of Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic Humanistic Behavior Cognitive
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Mental Health Act RA 11036
* All Filipinos are mentally healthy, able to contribute to the development of the country, can attain better quality of life * Promotes mental health and the protection of rights and freedom of people with mental health needs * Provides direction for the Philippines’ mental health problems, concerns and efforts

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