MENTAL HEALTH Flashcards
● State of wellbeing in which every individual realized his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community
MENTAL HEALTH
Was established to enhance the delivery of mental health services and to promote and protect the rights of the Filipinos utilizing psychiatric, neurologic and psychosocial health services.
MENTAL HEALTH ACT & UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE LAW
a. Entail that a child was deprived of material things (food, shelter) or can also be things like love, care
Early deprivation or trauma
Also referred to as psychopathology (literally means pathology of the mind) is the study of abnormal behavior
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
FACTORS AFFECTING MENTAL HEALTH (3)
- Early deprivation or trauma
- Inadequate parenting
- Inadequate and irrational
communication in the family
The scientific study of the mental pathology that underlies the symptomatology of psychiatric diseases. It is general when the symptoms studies are common to a number of diseases; and special, when the symptoms studies are idiopathic to particular diseases.
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
● Result of divine intervention (di ka daw kasi mabait, masama kang tao, may ginawa kang di maganda and pinarusahan ka ni lord)
Supernatural model
THIS PERSON Rejected possession
Paracelus
Suggested that the movement of
the moon and the stars have an
effect on human behavior
○ Coined the term “lunatic”
○ Not well researched
Paracelus
○ Father of modern medicine
Hippocrates:
Suggested that psychological
disorders can be treated like other
diseases
○ Can be caused by trauma or
genetics.
Hippocrates
○ Disease as a unitary concept: no distinction between mental and physical disease
○ All problems are caused by imbalance in the body
Galen’s 4 humors:
Four humors:
■ Blood
■ Black bile
■ Yellow bile
■ Phlegm
proponent of this:
○ Causes of maladaptive behavior:
■ Social and cultural
influences
■ Learning that took place in
that environment
○ Precursor to modern psychosocial approaches
Plato
○ 19th century psychosocial
approach to mental disorders
Moral therapy
○ Suggested to his patients that
their problem was caused by an
undetectable fluid found in all
living organisms called ‘animal
magnetism’ which could become
blocked.
anton mesmer
● A broad concept that is roughly equivalent to mental health.
NORMALITY
Behavior that is socially acceptable to the standards of society
NORMAL BEHAVIOR
CRITERIA FOR NORMALITY
Average
social conformity
Personal comfort
- the view that there are no universal standards or rules labeling a behavior as abnormal. Behaviors can only be considered abnormal based on or relative to cultural norms.
Cultural relativism
- behaviors which are considered unusual or deviant are considered as abnormal behaviors. This is ties to cultural relativism since the culture dictates what is usual or unusual
Unusualness
- behaviors should be considered abnormal only if the individual suffers from distress and wishes to be rid of the behaviors
Distress
- behaviors are not considered abnormal unless they are a part of a mental illness.
Mental illness
FOUR D’s OF ABNORMALITY
● Dysfunction
● Distress
● Deviance
● Dangerousness
FOUR D’s OF ABNORMALITY
○ When a person is going through a
mental illness, he isn’t able to do
the basic things he has to do
Dysfunction