Deviation from Ideal Mental Health

• Deviation from Ideal Menal Health

  -normal mental health defined like normal physical health
• Jahoda-6 criteria

  P-Personal growth

  R- Reality accurate perception

  I-integration

  M-Mastery of enviroment

  A-Autonomy

  S-Self Attitudes
• AO3-Unrealistic criteria


  E-most people abnormal

  -hard to reach all 6 criteria

  L-Difficult to measure

  H- unusable to measure abnormality
• AO3- Positive Approach


  E- positive and humanist mindset on life

  -focuses on desirable ideal instead of undersirable

  L-identify thhat people need to be mentally healthy rather than identifying problems

  -theraputic aimsa nd goals are set in treatment

  H- Positive as it is useful for people deemed mentally unwell
• AO3- Equates medical and physical health


  E- applies principes of physical health to mental health

  -physical health is easy to diagnose

  -possible that mental health conditions are beacuse physical causes

  L- many however aren't , and are through life experiences

  H- unlikely that we could diagnose mental abnormalitiy in te same way we diagnose physical abnormality
• AO3- Cultural Relativism


  E- Jahodas criteria is too culturally bound

  E- Self actualisation is only relevant for peolpe in individalistic cultures, and not those who promote the needs of the group

  L-higher abnormality in collectivised cultures comapred to individualistic ones

  H- limitis the usefullness of the definition to search in many cultural groups