TCOLE Basic Correctional Officer:
Mental Health & Suicide: Module 5
Mental health - ANSa individual's circumstance in regards to their psychological and
emotional nicely-being.
Intellectual illness - ANSAn contamination, disorder or situation, apart from epilepsy,
dementia, substance abuse or highbrow incapacity
Five distinguished categories of mental contamination: - ANS➢ Mood Disorders
➢ Schizophrenia/Psychotic disorders
➢Dementias
➢ Anxiety Disorders
➢Eating disorders
Two maximum common temper disorders encountered by jailers - ANS➢Depression
➢Bi-Polar Disorder
principal depressive disorder - ANSA depressed mood or loss of hobby of at least two weeks
length followed with the aid of signs together with weight loss/advantage and issue
concentrating.
Major depressive episode - ANSdepressed mood lasting from 1 day to at least one week.
Schizophrenia - ANSdelusions, hallucinations, disorganized wondering, grossly disorganized
or bizarre motor behavior
fantastic signs of schizophrenia - ANS➢Delusions of false and persistent ideals that aren't
part of the character's subculture
➢ Hallucinations that encompass hearing, seeing, smelling, or feeling matters, that others
cannot
Dementia - ANSan umbrella term used to explain a decline in reminiscence or mind function
that affects an person's each day lifestyles.
Signs of dementia - ANS➢Memory Problems
➢Confabulation
➢Impaired Thinking
anxiety problems - ANSare a group of intellectual disturbances characterized by using
tension as a principal or core symptom.
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