Mental Health

Question 0

Mental illness

Answer 0

A mental disorder that affects one or more functions of the mind, can interfere with a persons thoughts, emotions, perceptions and behaviour

Question 1

Mental health

Answer 1

State of emotional and social wellbeing. A person can cope with everyday stressors, realise their own potential and can work productively.

Question 2

Sociocultural normality

Answer 2

Behaviour that is accepted in a particular society eg. Married to one person at a time in Australia

Question 3

Abnormality

Answer 3

A pattern of thoughts, feelings or behaviours that is deviant, distressing or dysfunctional.

Question 4

Deviant

Answer 4

When the behaviour is considered different from the social or cultural norm.

Question 5

Distressing

Answer 5

When thoughts feelings or behaviours are unpleasant and upsetting to the person experiencing them”

Question 6

Dysfunctional

Answer 6

Thoughts feeling or behaviours that interfere with a persons ability to carry out daily activities.

Question 7

Biopsychosocial framework

Answer 7

Describes how biological, psychological and social factors combine and interact to influence a persons physical and mental health.

Question 8

Strengths and limitations of categorical approach

Answer 8

Disorders are arranged in a particular manner and order
Consistent diagnoses from hospital to hospital
Does not accommodate for atypical symptoms, boxes people into categories.

Question 9

Strengths and limitations of dimensional approach

Answer 9

Does not label individuals
Can see improvement quicker
Greater inconsistencies
argument about how many dimensions exist.

Question 10

Stress

Answer 10

A state of physiological arousal produced by internal and external stressors that are perceived as exceeding a persons coping abilities.

Question 11

Physiological response to stress

Answer 11

Involuntary major and minor changes in bodily functions that occur when we become aware of a stressor.

Question 12

Fight or flight response

Answer 12

Involuntary reaction resulting In a state of physiological readiness to deal w a threat by confronting it or running away.

Question 13

HPA axis

Answer 13

Hypothalamus stimulates the pituatary gland which produces ACTH ( adrenal glands).
Increased heart rate, blood pressure and respiration rate makes more oxygen available for fight or flight response

Question 14

Eustress

Answer 14

Positive psychological response to a stressor.

Question 15

Distress

Answer 15

Negative psychological response to a stressor.

Question 16

Problem focused coping

Answer 16

Change the source of problem. 
Reappraise the stressor from new perspectives
Obtain more info about stressor
Redefining a stressor
Change what us changeable
Learn new skills to manage stressor

Question 17

Emotion focused coping

Answer 17

Strategies to attend to emotional responses to stressor.
Denial
Distancing
Avoiding
Minimising
Wishful thinking
Acceptance 
Physical exercise
Distracting

Question 18

Strengths of transactional model

Answer 18

Emphasises personal nature ans individuality of stress
Allows fro variability in human stress response
Reappraisal allows for stressors to change over time

Question 19

Limitations of transactional model

Answer 19

Difficult to test through experimental research

Doubts that there needs to be an appraisal to have a stress response.