Psychological Health and Well-Being Part 2 Flashcards
Mental health literacy
Key definition
• refers to the knowledge, understanding, and skills needed to recognize, manage, and support mental health effectively. It
encompasses both individual awareness and the societal capacity to promote mental well-being, reduce stigma, and
encourage appropriate help-seeking behaviors.
Mental health literacy
My personal notes
Does not mean you have all the answer, you have awareness and recognize when someone need support, at lesser to the starting point
Mental health literacy
Who introduced and for what purpose
• This concept was first introduced by Anthony Jorm in 1997, with
a focus on improving public understanding of mental health
In the past it was metal illness focus
Components of Mental Health Literacy
• Knowledge of Mental Health and Illness
• Awareness of Mental Health Promotion
• Help-Seeking Behaviours
• Crisis Management Knowledge
Components of Mental Health Literacy: Knowledge of Mental Health and Illness
Need to understand the character istics, the cause, the signs and symptoms, how it operates( 2 continuum model)
Components of Mental Health Literacy: Awareness of Mental Health Promotion
Knowing how to maintain good mental health, stress management, building resilience, understanding self care behavviours
Components of Mental Health Literacy: Help-Seeking Behaviours
Requires both professional and informal support that are available
Components of Mental Health Literacy: Crisis Management Knowledge
We should all have some kind of basic knowledge ehen someone is in need for urgent care, can also call 911
- Stigma reduction
- challenging negative attitudes and fostering a more supportive environment
Why is Mental Health
Literacy important?
More health literate campus: builds empathy, promotes transparency, building a norm , less burnout and see the signs and symptoms of it for university students
Mental Health Literacy: Build Capacity
• It is important that people working with athletes build
capacity
• Recognize symptoms / signs
• Understand available resources
• Be able to direct to available resources
• “Demystify” and destigmatize
-Mental health needs attention just like physical health
• Promote mental wellbeing and flourishing
- Take steps to continually improve and support (ie don’t just treat
issues when they arise, also take steps to build wellbeing)
• Consider screening tools if possible
Mental Health Literacy: Build Capacity
• “Demystify” and destigmatize
Dealing down myths and any misconceptions about mental health
Mental Health Literacy: Build Capacity
• Promote mental wellbeing and flourishing
It not only about preventing the negative, promoting the positive is just as important
Mental Health Literacy: Build Capacity
• Consider screening tools if possible
Athletes getting screened at the start and though out their season,
Mental Health Assets
• Promotion of mental health through assets-based approach to intervention:
• Mental Health Asset = “any factor (or resources)
which enhances the ability of individuals, groups,
communities, populations, social systems and / or
institutions to maintain and sustain health and well- being and to help reduce health inequities. These assets can operate at the level of the individual, group, community, and/or population as protective (or promoting) factors to buffer against life’s stresses.”
-It can direct where people
Need to putt their time and effort
Resilience: The Sport Context
• Those involved in the sport context will inherently face demands.
• People differ in how they respond to the demands placed on
them.
What is resilience?
(Strümpfer, 1999)
“The ability of a substance to recoil, spring back, or
resume its original shape
after bending, stretching, or compressing”
What is resilience?
(Galli & Gonzalez, 2015)
“The ability to respond
positively to setbacks,
obstacles, and failures ”
What is resilience?
(Best et al., 1990)
“The process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation
despite challenging or threatening
circumstances”
What is resilience? (The common SP definition)
Key definition
(Fletcher & Sarkar, 2012)
“The role of mental processes and behaviour in
promoting personal assets and protecting an
individual from the potential negative effect of
stressors”
What resilience is not.
(Hamel & Valikangas, 2003)
“Resilience is not about responding to a one time
crisis. It’s not about rebounding from a setback.
It’s about having the capacity to change before the case for change becomes desperately obvious.”
What resilience is not:
Key
• Resilience is not:
A rare, elusive quality found in only certain,
extraordinary people
A fixed trait (it’s changeable)
Solely determined by an individual person (There are environmental factors )
An ability to suppress or ignore emotions
Key Points of the Resilience
Definition
• Non-linear
• Dynamic
• Both an outcome and a process
How do we build Resilience?
Started with protective factor then moved to promotive factors
Protective Factors :
- “influences that modify, ameliorate, or alter a
person’s response to some environmental hazard
that predisposes to a maladaptive outcome”
Examples: sleep hygiene, good nutrition, social support, self compassion, self efficacy
