Mental health/wellbeing Flashcards
What is wellbeing?
A state in which an individual is mentally, physically and socially healthy and secure
What is mental wellbeing?
An individuals psychological state, indicating their ability to think, process information and regulate emotions.
What are the ways of considering mental wellbeing?
Resilience
Levels of functioning
Social wellbeing
Emotional wellbeing
What is resilience?
The ability to cope with and manage change and uncertainty.
High levels- seeks solutions to problems.
Low levels- lack hope and optimism.
What is levels of functioning?
The degree to which an individual can complete day to day tasks in an independent and effective manner.
High levels- be productive in completing daily tasks.
Low levels- lack direction and unable to set goals.
What is social wellbeing?
The ability for an individual to form and maintain meaningful bonds with others, and adapt to different social situations.
High levels- have a strong support network.
Low levels- be isolated and have lack of support from others.
What is emotional wellbeing?
The ability for an individual to appropriately control and express their own emotions in an adaptive way, as well as understand emotions in others.
High levels- experience a range of emotions.
Low levels- expressing emotions at inappropriate time and places.
What is the social and emotional wellbeing framework? (SEWB)
A framework that includes all elements of being, and therefore wellbeing, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people.
What is in the SEWB framework?
Connection to body
Connection to mind and emotions
Connection to family and kinship
Connection to community
Connection to culture
Connection to country
Connection to
What is connection to body?
Connecting to the physical body and health in order to participate fully in all aspects of life.
What is connection to mind and emotions?
Ability to effectively manage
thoughts and feelings.
What is connection to family and kinship?
Connecting to immediate and
wider family group.
What is connection to community?
Connecting to wider social systems, allowing families to connect with and support one another.
What is connection to country?
Connecting to traditional lands
of a particular language or cultural group, both geographically as well as spiritually, emotionally, and
intellectually.
What is connection to spirituality and ancestors?
Connecting to all things, shaping
beliefs, values, and behaviors, and guiding knowledge systems and culture. Understanding that one’s ancestors are connected with Creation spirits and Country and guide and protect families in the physical and
spiritual world.
What is the mental wellbeing continuum?
A tool used to track fluctuating mental wellbeing.
What is stress?
A state of mental which describes our emotional and physiological tension from a existing stressors.
What is anxiety?
A psychological and physiological response that involves feelings of worry and apprehension by a perceived threat.
What is specific phobia?
A type of diagnosable anxiety disorder that is categorized by an excessive fear when encountering the encounter of a particular stimulus.
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
A holistic interdisciplinary framework for understanding the human experience in terms of the influence of biological, psychological and social factors.
What are biological factors?
Internal, genetic and/or physiological based factors. Such as a GABA dysfunction and long term potentiation.
What is GABA?
Its the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the nervous system.
What is long-term potentiation?
The long-lasting and experience-dependent strengthening of synaptic connections that are regularly coactivated.
What is psychological factors?
Internal factors relating to an individuals mental health processes, including their cognition, affect, thoughts, beliefs and attitudes. This includes classical conditioning, operant conditioning and cognitive bias.
What are precipitating factors?
Factors that start and develop a phobia most noted in classical conditioning.
What are perpetuating factors?
Factors that continues the phobia most noted in operant conditioning.
What is cognitive bias?
A predisposition to think about and process information in a certain way.
What is memory bias?
When a memory is over exaggerated caused by the phobia.
What is catastrophic thinking?
When an individual thinks something bad will occur if they come into contact with the phobia.
What are social factors?
External factors that contributes to an individuals interactions with the external environment such as relationships and community involvement. This includes environment triggers and stigma.
What is environmental triggers?
Stimuli that occurs in a individuals environment that can evoke high stress leading to a phobia.
What is stigma?
The feeling of hopelessness and shame experienced by an individual.
What is an agonist?
a type of drug that imitates neurotransmitters and works to initiate a neural response (excitatory or inhibitory) when it binds to the receptor sites of a neuron.
What is Benzodiazepine?
a type of medication that depresses central nervous system activity and is often used as a short-acting anti anxiety medication
What is breathing retraining?
A method where breathing techniques are taught in order to reduce physiological arousal
What is systematic desensitization?
When a patient is incrementally exposed to the fear stimuli in combination with relaxation techniques in order to overcome a phobia.
What is cognitive behaviour therapy? (CBT)
A form of psychotherapy that encourages individuals to substitute dysfunctional cognition and behaviours with more adaptive ones.
What is pychoeducation?
To teach families and supporters of individuals to better understand their mental disorder and deal/ treat their disorder.
What is protective factors?
Influences that enable an individual to promote and maintain high levels of mental well-being
What is biological protective factors?
Influences that stem from an individuals brain and/or body that can maintain or promote mental wellbeing. This includes sleep and adequate nutrition and hydration.
What is psychological protective factors?
Influences that relate to mental processes that can maintain and promote mental well-being. This includes cognitive behavioural strategies and mindfulness meditation.
What is cognitive behavioural strategies?
Techniques that utilise traits of cognitive behavioural therapy, particularly recognising and changing dysfunctional thoughts and behavioural patterns.
What’s mindful meditation?
The practice of meditation in which an individual focuses on their present experience to promote feelings of calm and peace.
What is social protective factors?
Influences that exist in an individual’s social environment that can maintain and promote mental wellbeing. This includes support from family, friends and the community.
