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UNIT 1 Flashcards

1
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Define well-being

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Overall state or feeling comfortable, healthy, and happy.

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2
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Define mental-health

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Psychological, emotional, and social aspects of thinking, feeling and behaving

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What is mental health a prerequisite of?

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Realizing potential, being able to cope with normal life stress, and being productive at work or school

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What is eudaimonia translate to

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Happiness which corresponds with the idea of flourishing

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What are the components of well-being

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Mental Health, Physical Health, and Supportive/Secure Environment

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What does mental health embody

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Positive psychological, emotional and social functioning

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What does positive mental health include?

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Feeling happy and satisfied with life, positive functioning and self-realization

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what does mental health contribute to?

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The ability to strive and reach potential, cope with normal life stresses, establish good relationships and be productive at work or study

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What does physical health refer to?

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Taking proper care of your body for optimum health and functioning and disease prevention

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Are physical health and mental health related?

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Yes, in a reciprocal way

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What is a supportive/secure environment?

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Where a person feels socially, emotionally, and physically safe and valued.

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What are the aspects of mental health?

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Realizing your potential: are you achieving what you are supposed to?
Emotional health: feelings and emotions
Psychological health: how you think and feel about things and your feelings
Social connectedness: maintaining good relationships (realize on development of positive social skills such as empathy)

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13
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What does the mental health spectrum show?

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Shows that you can think about mental health states based on certain defined thresholds

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Threshold of the mental health spectrum distress and/or impairement (top to bottom)

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Disorders or illness
Concerns or problems
symptoms
well

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What happens as you go up the mental health spectrum?

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There are fewer people that are likely to meet that threshold

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What is a mental disorder?

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Clinically diagnosed illness that requires evidence-based treatments from healthcare professionals

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17
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What are the clinically significant symptoms of a mental disorder?

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disturbance in thoughts, feeling and perception that negatively affects day to day functioning and causes significant distress and impairment

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What is the definition of a mental health problem?

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The presence of symptoms that persist and are associated with distress or difficulty, but are not severe enough to be considered a diagnosable mental illness, condition, disorder

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What do mental health concerns and problems relate to?

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Persistent or new life events of stress - not technically reflective of a diagnosable mental disorder

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What are the benefits of being mentally well?

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stress and disappointment are more manageable

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Mental health continuum categories

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Healthy, reacting, injured, !!

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What helps to maintain mental health and resilience?

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A healthy lifestyle, good psychological coping, supportive relationships

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23
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Can you have a diagnosed mental illness and be in good well being?

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yes

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24
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What is the current state of student mental health?

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Concerningly high rates

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25
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How many 1st year students according to WHO have been screened positive for a mental disorder specifically anxiety, mood and substance use?

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1/3

25
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Do most people have an onset of prior anxiety or depression before university?

A

yes, a majority do

26
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Student demand for mental health resources

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Increasing since covid

27
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Why is the time of transition to university the AT RISK AGE for mental health?

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a time when the brain is undergoing accelerated growth and development and has not yet fully matured

28
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What are the needs for university mental health services?

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At-risk age
Transition period
Vulnerable brain
Lacking support
Decrease in stigma

29
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Contributors to mental health and academic outcomes in 1st years

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Family factors
Personal factors
Early environment
Psychological
Lifestyle & behaviour

30
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8 goals of well-being and mental health

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Community
Social
Recreational
Career
Academic
Relationships
Cultural

31
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What aspects of your life and academic success can mental health impact?

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Energy levels and Motivation
Concentration and cognition
Self-efficacy
Managing stressful situations
Belongingness

32
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Risk factors of bad mental health

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not enough sleep
recreational drugs
not a good support network
prior mental health condition
culture
avoidance and overthinking problems

33
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What are protective factors

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Characteristics or exposures that lowers the likelihood of negative outcomes or that reduces the impact of risk factors

34
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Protective factors against mental health

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Having a reliable support network
good study-life balance
healthy sleep schedule
feeling included
positive thinking, journaling, relationships

35
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What are stressors?

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Smt that causes a state of psychological strain or tension

36
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What is resilience?

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being able to adjust, adapt, overcome, and cope with a disappointment, stressor, threat or adverse

37
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What are signs and symptoms of being under stress?

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Observable or experienced indicators

38
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Psychodynamic model

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Processes of the mind involves the interplay of psychological forces, and that distress arises because consciousness interpretation of these forces masks true unconscious origin

39
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Is treatment based on the psychodynamic model helpful?

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no strong evidence

40
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Why was the Medical/disease model created?

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It was believed that psychiatric illness were diseases caused by biological and generic malfunction

41
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Mental/disease model

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Views problems of mental functioning from a disease perspective with a biological basis at the core

42
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Behavioural model

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Theorises that how you behave day-to-day is conditioned due to the reinforcement you receive for your actions (more likely to do things that you get a positive reaction from)

43
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Cognitive model

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Assumes your perspective of yourself and the world are the result of your thinking, and errors or distortions in thought process can cause you to be upset or a mental disorder

44
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Cognitive behavioural model

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has a cognitive component, including identifying and correcting errors and biases in thinking

45
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Biopsychosocial model

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Emphasizes the interacting roles of biological factors, psychological factors, and social factors, as contributors to mental illness

46
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What is the osler medical humanist model?

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An alternative of the biopsychosocial model

47
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Osler medical humanist model sections

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Biology, Social, Psychologicla

48
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What does the social model focus on?

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broader holistic community-based influence on mental health including social, cultural, and environmental context

49
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Cultural/minority model

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focuses on voices of experience in response to feeling talked at or over in the medical and social models

50
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What is the mad movement?

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led by those with lived experiences and focuses on non-stigmatizing way of approaching mental health experiences

51
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Is mental health a spectrum

A

yes

52
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Conceptual model

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takes into account early or distal exposures or risk factors and later more proximal risk factors and the cumulative relationship or pathway to mental health and academic outcomes

53
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What are distal risk factors?

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family history and environment, early adversity (abuse, neglect, trauma)

54
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What are proximal risk factors?

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Choices that we make (sleep, substance use, exercise, social support, low self-esteem, stress levels, anxiety and depressive symptoms)

55
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Outcomes of the conceptual model

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determined by a combination of distal and proximal risk factors and stressors

56
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Alternate risk factors of mental health

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Genes
Epigenetics
Environment
Culture

57
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Stress-diathesis model

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Suggests that certain environmental and lifestyle factors can further increase risk in individuals who are already vulnerable or at genetic risk, such as through cannabis use.

58
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What is mental health a component of?

A

Well-being

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