Mental Health - Answer State of well being in which each individual is able to realize his or her own potential, cope with normal stress, work productively, and make a contribution to the community.
Mental Illness - Answer Refers to all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses. ...
N222 Quiz 1 Revision Exam Questions
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Mental Health - Answer State of well being in which each individual is able to realize his or her own
potential, cope with normal stress, work productively, and make a contribution to the community.
Mental Illness - Answer Refers to all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses.
- manifested in significant dysfunctions that may be related to developmental, biological, or physiological
disturbances in mental functioning.
- evolves over time
- in the past was applied to behavior that was considered "strange/different"
- listed in the DSM-5
According to the US department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 2014: - Answer - 1:5 American
adults experienced a mental health issue
- 1:10 young people experienced a period of depression
- 1:25 Americans lived with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major
depression
- suicide was the 10th leading cause of death
Resilience - Answer the ability and capacity for people to secure the resources they need to support
their well-being
- Does not mean unaffected by stressors: social, economic, and environmental
- effective at regulating their emotions ex) not falling victim to negative, self-doubting thoughts
"it's the ability to bounce back"
Mental health
Recovery - Answer "a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness,
live a self-directed
, life, and strive to reach their full potential."
- living your best life from illness
- not cured, individualization
Mental illness
- discovered under NAMI
Name topics that fall under stressor categories - Answer Social: family, peer groups, school
Economics: work, social economics status "keeping up with the jones"
Environmental: political, climate change, cultural considerations
- Nature + Nurture = combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
- Assertion = most psychiatric disorders result from a combination of genetic vulnerability and negative
environmental stressors
Comorbility - Answer more than one mental disorder or another medical disorder
Incidence - Answer number of new cases
- risk of contracting a disease, new cases of mental disorders in a healthy poulation w/in a given period
of time
Prevalence - Answer total number of cases
- in a given population, during a specific time, regardless of when they became ill
What did George H.W. Bush designate in the last 1900s? - Answer "Decade of the Brain"
- us initiative stimulated a worldwide growth of scientific research
What was published in 1999 on mental health? - Answer Surgeon General's report on mental health.
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