Mental Health General Flashcards
What is the differences between mental health and mental illness?
Mental health is a state of emotional and social wellbeing while mental illness has psychological dysfunction.
Mental health an individual can cope with normal stresses of life while mental illness involves distress and impaired coping ability.
Can work productively and contribute to their community in mental health while there is atypical thoughts/feelings/behaviours in mental illness.
What is the functional approach to normality?
Thoughts, feelings behaviours are viewed as normal if the individual is able to cope with living independently (‘function’) in society, but considered abnormal if the individual is unable to function effectively in society.
What is the medical approach to normality?
Abnormal thoughts, feelings or behaviours are viewed as having underlying biological approach and can usually be diagnosed and treated.
What is the situational approach to normality?
Within a society or culture, thoughts, feelings and behaviours that may be considered normal in one situation may be considered abnormal in another.
What is the statistical approach to normality?
Based on the idea that any behaviours or characteristics in a large group of individuals is distributed in a particular way; that is normal in distribution. Large majority is ‘statistical average’ considered normal. Small minority is ‘statistical extremity’ and is then considered abnormal.
What is the difference between a stress and stressor?
The stressor is any person/situation/event that produces stress while stress is the physiological and psychological response to internal or external sources of tensions that challenge a person’s ability to cope.
What are the five types of stress?
Eustress: positive response to stressor.
Distress: negative response to stressor.
Acute: high level of arousal occurring quite suddenly.
Mild: form of stress that is minimal.
Chronic: prolonged periods of stress.
What is a mental health problem?
Occurs when the difficulties experienced by a person are mild, temporary and able to be treated within a relatively short period of time.
