Psychological Psychology Flashcards
What is wellbeing?
Wellbeing is a combination of the physical, emotional, mental and social aspects in a person’s life. The outcome of all these aspects results in how well that person’s wellbeing is.
What is flourishing?
Flourishing is a state in which one is at their best point or at a high point of their well-being and thriving in many aspects of their life.
Biopsychosocial model and what activities can be implemented for a persons wellbeing
The biopsychosocial model represents all the aspects from biological, psychological, and social factors that can impact mental health. To better the wellbeing of a person according to the BSP model can include eating healthier foods and a better sleep schedule to improve the biological aspect of the model, meditation to improve the psychological aspect of the model, and volunteering work and maintaining relationships to improve the social aspect of the model.
Resilience and dimensions of resilience
Things that can be incorperated into a person’s life based on the 5 dimensions of resilience can include journaling to work on emotional resilience, joining activity groups or a club to work on social resilience, exercising to work on physical resilience, meditation or yoga to work on spiritual resilience, and setting simple goals for the day to work on mental resilience.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs are the needs for survival in an individual to continue life. This hierarchy of needs expresses the amount on needs of certain things in life to live. This is presented in a triangle shape, the base of the triangle are the things people need most to live, the next one a little bit less and less and less the sections get closer to the top of the hierarchy (triangle) it shows the less importance it is compared to the one below it e.g. food and water is more needed than traveling and meeting personal goals.
