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Mental Health Flashcards

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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

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Individual differences
Gaining control
Social support
Healthy lifestyle

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Psychological Disorder

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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

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Distress
Deviance
Dangerousness
Dysfunction
Absence of Pathology

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Distress (4D’s)

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Emotional or physical pain

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Deviance

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Highly unusual behavior based on social/cultural norms

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Dangerousness

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Potential harm to the self and others

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Dysfunction

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disrupted ability to daily function

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Absence of Pathology

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No signs of symptoms

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Chronic vs Acute

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long duration low intensity; short duration high intensity

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Neurosis vs Psychosis

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High levels of unrealistic anxiety; Loss contact with reality

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Common Known Causes of Abnormality

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Heredity
Biochemical factors
Substance abuse
Schizophrenogenic parenting and destructive family interactions
Cultural differences
Trauma
Life stress

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Psychopathology

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Study of abnormal behavior, the nature of disease including causes, development and outcomes

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Psychological Viewpoints of Psychopathology

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Psychoanalytic theorists - stems from repressed conflicts
Behaviorists - as learned
Cognitive theorists - irrational beliefs and illogical patterns of thought

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Biopsychosocial Model

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Biological factors
Psychological factors
Socio-cultral factors

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Biological factors

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Behavior caused by biological changes in the chemical, structural, or genetic systems of the body

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Psychological factors

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Cognition, mood, personality, and behavior
Coping mechanisms, level of insight, intelligence, emotion regulation

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Socio-cultural factors

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Cultural relativity
Culture-bound Systems
Situational Context

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Cultural relativity

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need to consider the unique characteristics of culture in which behavior takes place

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Culture-bound Systems

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disorders found only in a particular culture

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Situational context

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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

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general disposition + bio-psychosocial stressors = mental illness

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Vulnerability

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basic susceptibility to health disorders

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Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5)

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Official listing of mental disorders; updates

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Generalized Anxiety Disorders: has to be as long as

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Over at least a month

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Causes

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  • 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

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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

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Mood is severely disturbed

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Manic

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quality of excessive excitement, energy and elation or irritability

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Depressive

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very “down”, sad, indifferent or hopeless periods

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Depressive Disorder

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Suffer depression without mania; lethargy, loss of will to life and hopelessness lasting at least 2 weeks

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Depressive Disorder Causes

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Learned helplessness
Cognitive theories: Distorted, illogical thinking
Biological: function of serotonin, norepinephrine

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Schizophrenia

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highly disordered thought process, bizarre behavior, hallucinations, unable to distinguish reality between fantasy and reality

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Hallucination

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break away from ability to perceive what is real and what is fantasy

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Delusions

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false beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness

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Schizophrenia Types

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Disorganized
Paranoid
Catatonic
Undifferentiated

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Schizophrenia Causes

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  • 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

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Biological
Psychotherapy

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Kinds of Bio Therapy

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Pharmacotherapy - meds
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - electrical pulse

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Types of Psychotherapy

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Psychoanalytic
Humanistic
Behavior
Cognitive

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Mental Health Act RA 11036

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  • 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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