Psych application

• Good mental health is characterized by high self-esteem, autonomy, and an accurate perception of life.
• The Mental Health Act of 1959 was put forward to reduce stigma and discrimination towards people who suffer from mental health conditions.
• Difficulty measuring mental health is due to the fact that not all problems are diagnosed.
• The mental health continuum ranges from healthy normal function to severe persistent functional impairment.
• Neuropsychological tests include the Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST) for frontal lobe function, pet scans for blood flow in the brain, and Beck’s depression inventory (BDI) for severity of depression.
• Anti-depressants are used to treat depression by increasing serotonin to allow neurons to communicate better and decrease depression levels.
• Anti-psychotics are used to treat schizophrenia by blocking dopamine receptors to reduce dopamine levels, thereby preventing psychotic episodes.
• Psychotherapy, which does not include drugs, uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to talk about overcoming negative/irrational beliefs and the ABC model, adding D for disputing beliefs and E for effect of changing approaches to an event.
• Good mental health is defined as high self-esteem, autonomy and an accurate perception of life.
• The Mental Health Act (1959) was put forward to reduce stigma and discrimination towards people who suffer from mental health.
• A difficulty in measuring mental health is that not all problems are diagnosed.
• The mental health continuum ranges from healthy (normal function) to severe disruption (persistent functional impairment).
• The Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST) is a test for frontal lobe function.
• Pet scans are scans for blood flow in the brain.
• Beck’s depression inventory (BDI) is a test for the severity of depression.
• Anti-depressants are used in the treatment of depression by increasing serotonin to allow neurons to communicate better and decrease depression levels.
• Anti-psychotics are used in the treatment of schizophrenia by blocking dopamine receptors to reduce dopamine levels, to then prevent psychotic episodes.
• Psychotherapy, which does not include drugs, uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to talk about overcoming negative/irrational beliefs.
• Psychotherapy also uses ABC model adding D for disputing beliefs and E for effect of changing approaches to an event.