T1-Mental Health

Question 1

What is mental health?

Answer 1

More than just the absence of mental illness

Also includes how you feel about yourself and how you adjust to life events

Question 2

What is this:

• People feel good about themselves
• People do not become overwhelmed by emotions
• People have lasting and satisfying personal relationships
• People feel comfortable with others
• People can laugh at themselves and with others
• People have respect for themselves and others, even when there are differences
• People are able to accept life’s disappointments
• People can meet life demands and handle their problems when they arise
• People make their own decisions
• People shape their environment whenever possible and adjust to it when necessary

Answer 2

These are the 10 Characteristics of People who are mentally healthy, cited by the National Mental Health Association

Question 3

How does the textbook (Horwittz) define mental illness?

Answer 3

Having incomprehensibility and cultural relativity

Question 4

Inability to understand the motivation behind the behavior; lack of meaning and comprehensibility of the behavior

Answer 4

Incomprehensibility

Question 5

Behavior is abnormal or pathological as defined by that person’s particular culture and societal norms

Answer 5

Cultural relativity

Question 6

Townsend: Mental illness is “characterized as ____ responses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are _____ with the local and cultural norms and that ___ with the individual’s social, occupation, and/or physical functioning”

Answer 6

maladaptive, incongruent, interfere

Question 7

DSM-5: Characterizes mental disorders as “a clinically significant ____ or ____ syndrome or patter that occurs in an individual [which] is associated with present ___ or ____ or with a significant increased risk of ____.

Answer 7

Behavioral or psychological syndrome or patter

present distress or disability

or increased risk of suffering

Question 8

What are some examples of how individuals response to a stressful situation?

Answer 8

• Perception of the event
• Severity of the event
• # of events
• Temperament
• Learned behavior and responses
• Self esteem
• Developmental maturity
• Existing coping strategies
• Support system of caring others

Question 9

Emotionally stable people who bound back from stressful situations.

Answer 9

Self healers

Question 10

Self healers have good ___ skills, perceive their world as less ____ and with a ____ outlook

Answer 10

• Good COPING skills
• Perceive their world as less THREATENING and
• With a POSITIVE outlook

Question 11

Is the immune system healthier in self healers?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

Numerous research studies report a strong positive correlation with these attitudes listed below and illnesses and aging. What do these attitudes do?

• Suspiciousness
• Angry
• Depressed
• Jealous
• Lack of confidence
• Negative or pessimistic outlook
• Expect the worst
• Few or no close relationships

Answer 12

These attitudes and feelings keep the STRESS RESPONSE ACTIVE and DEPRESS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Question 13

T/F: ALL individuals move along a mental health/mental illness continuum during their lifetime

Answer 13

TRUE!!!