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Mental health according to WHO - Answer "A state of well-being in which each individual
is able to realize his or her own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work
productively and fruitfully, and make a contribution to the community." Mental health is
described as more than merely the absence of mental disorders or disabilities
Mental Illness - Answer alterations in cognition, mood, or behaviour that are coupled
with significant distress and impaired functioning. refers to all mental disorders with
definable diagnoses
Epp Report - Answer (1988) highlighted the importance of issues related to mental
health and mental illness in Canada. It proposed 7 guiding principles for the
development of public policies to support mental health. Proposed two continua to
depict the relationship between mental health and mental disorder. The mental disorder
continuum assigns one endpoint as maximal mental disorder and the opposite endpoint
as absence of mental disorder allowing for a range of impairment and distress
4 outcomes of mental health and mental illness - Answer 1. a person may have a severe
mental disorder and optimal mental health
2. no mental illness and good mental health (ideal)
3. poor coping skills and no resilience when faced with stressors and yet not have a
mental disorder
4. a person who has a severe mental disorder and poor mental health
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) - Answer classifies
around 350 mental disorders with evidence that suggests the symptoms and causes of a
number of them are influenced by cultural and ethnic factors
Resilience - Answer A characteristic of mental health increasingly being promoted as
essential to the recovery process. closely associated with the process of adapting,
resilience helps people face tragedies, loss, trauma, and severe stress.
Epidemiology - Answer is the quantitative study of the distribution of mental disorders in
human populations. two different but related words used in epidemiology are incidence
and prevalence.
Incidence - Answer refers to the number of new cases of mental disorders in healthy
population within a given period of time (i.e. # of Vancouver adolescents who were
diagnosed with major depressive disorder between 2008-2018)
, Prevalence - Answer describes the total number of cases, new and existing, in a given
population during a specific period of time, regardless of when the subjects became ill
(i.e. the # of adolescents who screen positive for major depressive disorder in Toronto
schools between 2008-2018)
comorbid condition - Answer more than one mental disorder at a time
Clinical Epidemiology - Answer is a broad field that addresses what happens after
people with illnesses are seen by clinical care providers (i.e. studies of the natural
history of an illness, studies of diagnostic screening tests, observational and
experimental studies of interventions used to treat people with the illness or symptoms
Categories for the DSM-5 - Answer 1. Neurodevelopmental disorder
2. Schizophrenia spectrum disorder
3. bipolar and related disorders
4. depressive disorders
5. anxiety disorders
6. obessive-compulsive disorders
7. trauma and stressor disorders
8. dissociative disorders
9. somatic symptom disorders
10. feeding and eating disorders
11. elimination disorders
12. sleep-wake disorders
13. sexual dysfunctions
14. gender dysphoria
15. disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders
16. substance and addictive disorders
17. neurocognitive disorders
18. personality disorders
19. paraphilias
20. other disorders
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