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Psychosocial Health

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Encompasses emotional, mental, social, and spiritual states.

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Mental health

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Thinking part.
Perceive reality as how it is, respond to challenges, develop rational strategies for living

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Emotional health

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Ability to express and acknowledge one’s feelings and mood.

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Emotional intelligence

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Ability to recognize and manage our own emotions and influence emotions of other people

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Social health

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Interact effectively with other people and the social environment

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Social support

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Care and security that friends, family, colleagues provide

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Spiritual health

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Ability to identify our purpose and experience the fulfillment of achieving our full potential

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Spiritual intelligence

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Enhance individual capability and qualities

Compassion, creativity, wisdom.

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Social responsibility

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Governments, organizations, people, contribute to welfare of society

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Mental disorder

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A behavioral or psychological syndrome that shows an underlying mental health issue.

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Mental illness

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Reduced ability to function and is associated with dysfunction and impaired functioning over an extended period

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Anxiety

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Feeling of apprehension and dread

Can lead to

asthmatic attacks, digestive disorders, hypertension, heart attacks, immune disorders

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Anxiety disorders

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GAD, panic attacks, panic disorder, phobias

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GAD

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Excessive or unrealistic apprehension causes physical symptoms.

6months or longer

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Panic attacks

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Heart immediately start racing, light headed or dizzy

Happens in 10 minutes then they dread for another one

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Panic disorder

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Panic attacks recur or person thinks about them and the person cannot function normally.

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CBT

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Talk based therapy

Change how people think so changes behaviour.

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Mindfulness Based CBT

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Both mindfulness and CBT

Breathing exercises and meditation

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Medication

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Prevent, treat, cure a disease

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Phobia

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Irrational, intense, excessive, unreasonable, persistent fears of objects and situations

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Behavioural therapy

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Gradual, systematic exposure to the fear

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Social anxiety disorder

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People are fearfully shy.

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Social isolation

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People withdraw and avoid eye contact and experience high level anxiety

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ADHD

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Inattentive type

Hyperactive

Combined

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ADHD inattentive

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Hard time finishing tasks, following directions, forgetful and disorganized

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ADHD hyper active- impulsive

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Fidgety and restless.

Talk alot, constantly on the go, acting before thinking

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ADHD combined type

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People that display both inattentive and hyperactive

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Bipolar disorder

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Mood swings, from euphoric and energetic to depressive.

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Depression

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Feeling unhappiness and despair. Unable to function normally.

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Depression

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Feeling unhappiness and despair. Unable to function normally.

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Depressive disorder

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Sustained depression, withdrawals a person from tasks

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Ssri

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Treatment of depression, anxiety, personality disorders.

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Ssri

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Treatment of depression, anxiety, personality disorders.

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Wide range of physical and emotional symptoms 5-11 days before period

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Seasonal depression disorder

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Depression symptoms during the fall and winter times.

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Common obsessions;

Violence, contamination, and doubt.

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Post dramatic stress disorder

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Re experience terror and helplessness experienced over and over in dreams or intrusive thoughts

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Schizophrenia

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Impairs persons ability sense of reality

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Suicide

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Talking ones life.

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Stress

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Physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension.

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Stressor

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Things that excite or upset us

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Acute time limited stressor

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Anxiety provoking situations

Short term relate to events coming up

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Brief stressor

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Meeting a deadline,

Occur in day to day life.

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Life changing events

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Decisions made or tragic event.

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Chronic stressor

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Ongoing demands that build up stress over a time period

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Distant stressor

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Occurred long time ago such as child abuse

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General adaptation syndrome

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Body strives to maintain homeostasis. Leads to body releasing adaptive response

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Cognitive transactional model of stress and coping

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Primary appraisal process - an event a threat or challenge

Secondary appraisal process - ability to manage the threat or change

Coping responses - stress outcomes depend on persons ability

Stress outcomes

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Psychoneuroimminology

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Relationship between brain response to stress and immune system

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Psychoneuroimminology

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Relationship between brain response to stress and immune system

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Autonomic nervous system

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Regulates internal organs,

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Systematic nervous system

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Release stress hormones that increases heart rate

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Hypothalamus

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Acts as the control centre, reacts to stress hormones

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Epinephrine

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Adrenaline. Increases blood flow

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Adrenocorticotrophic hormone

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Tells the glands they need to release cortisol;

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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Slowed down other systems simulated by stress response. Restored homeostasis

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Complicated grief

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Intense and extended period of grief linked to loss and death

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Discrimination

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Biased and unjust treatment of people in the unfair justification of age race culture sex

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Digital dementia

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Grey matter in hippocampus of brain and cognitive reasoning gone

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