Mental wellbeing chap 9

• Mental health and wellbeing: a beneficial emotional state in which a person realises their abilities, copes with the normal stresses of life, works productively and contributes to their community
• Resilience: the ability to recover from adversity
• Mentally healthy: the state of not having difficulty with everyday with everyday activities and displaying resilience
• high level of functioning: the ability to carry out a wide range of daily activities, attend to self-care, maintain interpersonal relationships and demonstrate resilience in the face of everyday challenges
• Wellbeing: a complex combination of a persons physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual health that is linked to happiness and life satisfaction
• Social wellbeing: relates to the connections you make with other people and your ability to get along with people in a community
• Emotional wellbeing: relates to the ability to feel a range of emotions and express them in a positive way
• Life stressor: an everyday or conceivable event, such as a relationship breakdown, work challenge or failing a test
• Mental health problem: a relatively short-term disruption that impacts on a persons everyday functioning
• Mental disorder: a condition that affects mood, thinking and behaviour and is typically long lasting
• External factor: a factor that influences mental wellbeing and originates from outside a person, such as the physical and social environment
• Internal factor: a factor that influences mental wellbeing and originates from within a person, such as genetics and hormones
• Biological factor: a factor that relates to the physiological functioning of the body
• Psychological factor: a factor the relates to the functioning of the brain and the mind, in including cognitive and affective processes such as thought patterns and memory
• Social factor: a factor that relates to the social components of a persons environment
• Stress: a state of mental or emotional and physiological tension, resulting from factors that are perceived to challenge or threaten our ability to cope
• Anxiety: an emotion akin to worrying and uneasiness that something is wrong or something bad is going to happen, usually accompanied by physiological signs
• Phobia: a persistent, intense, irrational fear of a specific object or event
• Protective factor: a factor that plays a role in decreasing the chance of developing a mental disorder
• biological risk factor: a factor that relates to the physiological functioning of the body, and may contribute to mental disorders
• genetic vulnerability: an increased likelihood that a person will develop a particular mental disorder because of their dna
• Psychological risk factor: a factor that relates to the functioning of the brain and the mind, which may contribute to mental disorders
• Rumination: thinking about and focusing on negative thoughts and experiences
• Self-efficacy: a persons confidence that they can complete life tasks and meet their goals
• Social risk factor: a factor that relates to a persons social contacts and how culture and the social environment can influence the development of mental disorders
• Disorganised insecure attachment: occurs when a child does not receive consistent care or emotional support from a primary caregiver early in life; leads to inconsistent behaviour being displayed towards this caregiver by the child
• Stigma: the feeling of shame or disgrace associated with a personal characteristic that indicates you belong to a culturally devalued group in society-this can be real or imagined
• Mindfulness mediation: the practice of observing the present moment, suspending judgements, and focusing on something calm and peaceful
• Culture: a way of life that is shared and learned
• cultural determinants of wellbeing: cultural factors that influence health and wellbeing
• Cultural continuity: the ability to preserve the historical traditions of a culture and carry them forward with that culture into the future
• Self-determination: the ability to participate in decisions on matters that affect one’s life