Week 1 - Introduction & History Flashcards
What does ABC stand for in the MSE?
Appearance
Behaviour
Cooperation
What does STAMP stand for in the MSE?
Speech - rate, volume, amount
Thought - form and content
Affect - moment to moment variation in emotion
Mood - subjective emotional tone during the interview
Perception - in all sensory modalities
What does LICKER stand for in the MSE?
Level of Conscoiusness
Insight and Judgment
Cognitive Functions & Sensorium - Orientation, Memory, Attention & Concentration, Reading & Writing
Knowledge base - general knowledge
Endings - suicidal and/or homicidal ideation
Reliability of the information provided
What is epidemiology?
Quantitative study of the distribution of mental disorders in human population.
Data on Incidence & Prevalence.
What is incidence?
Refers to the number of new cases of mental disorders within a healthy population within a given persion of time (incidence or numebr of new cases).
What is prevalence?
Total number of cases, new and existing, in each population during a specific period regardless of when the subject became ill (prevalence or total number of new and existing cases).
What is clinical epidemiology?
Looks at what happens after people with illnesses are seen by a clincal care provider:
-Studies of the natural history of an illness
-Studies of diagnostic screening tests, and
-Observational and experimental studies of interventions used to treat people with the the illness or symptoms.
Define mental illness.
Alterations in cognition, mood, or behaviour that occur with significant distress and impaired functioning.
-All diagnosible mental disorders (DSM-5).
-Mood may be impaired (e.g., depression)
-Behaviour may be impaired (e.g., schizophrenia).
-Or a combination of three types of symptoms.
What is Mental Health?
The capacity of each and all of us to feel, thin, and act in ways that enhance our ability to enjoy life and deal with challenges we face.
A positive sense of emotional and spiritual well-being that respects the importance of culture, equity, social justice, interconnections and personal dignity.
Define Mental Health Problem
A term used when signs and symptoms of mental health illnesses occur but do not meet specified criteria for a disorder (DSM-5).
How did the Epp Report (1988) “Mental Health for Canadians: Striking a balance” describe mental health?
-The need for public policies to support mental health.
-Two continua to show the relationship between mental health and mental disorder.
-Mental health disorder continuum has one endpoint as maximal mental disorder and opposite endpoint as absence of mental disorder-range of impairment and distress.
What four outcomes does Epp’s (1988) depiction of mental health and mental ilnness allow for?
- Maximal mental disorder and optimal mental health.
- Optimal mental disorder and absence of mental disorder.
- Absence of mental disorder and minimal mental health.
- Minimal mental health and maximal mental disorder.
What is the DSM-5?
-Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders provides criteria for diagnosing mental disorders.
-DSM-5 has been revised and is used by health care professionals world-wide and provides a common language for the diagnosis of mental disorders.
-Has expanded cirteria for mental disorder and looks at a person’s symptoms in clusters: includes sociocultural considerations.
-Provides a common laugnuage from a variety of disciplines to communicatie about their patients with the goal to develop more consistent and reliable diagnoses that can be used in the research of mental disorders.
-Official guide for diagnosing 350 disorders.
What is resilience?
Characterized by optimism, sense of mastery, and competence.
Resilence seen as a social construct that has a process and outcome, Closely associated to adapting.
Having resiliency during periods of stressors, tragedies, loss, trauma allows people to recognize feelings, help them deal with them, and learn from experience.
What influences mental health recovery?
-Respect for individual contexts and wishes.
-Hope for a better future.
-Collaboration and reflection.
-Strengths and responsibility.
