Unit 1

• Mental health - state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, copes with the normal stresses of life, works productively and fruitfully, and makes contributions to the community.
• Mental health - considered to be the foundation for well-being and effective functioning for an individual and for a community
• RA 11036 - aka the Mental Health act
• Mental health condition - a diagnosable illness that affects a person's thinking, emotional state and behavior; disrupts a person's ability to work and carry out other daily activities. May also cause severe disability
• Identify whether it pertains to 'Distress' or 'Disorder'

  Common

  Distress
• Identify whether it pertains to 'Distress' or 'Disorder'

  Often with high severity

  Disorder
• Identify whether it pertains to 'Distress' or 'Disorder'

  Diagnosis isn't needed

  Distress
• Identify whether it pertains to 'Distress' or 'Disorder'

  Caused by having a vulnerability to a disorder, and then triggered by significant stress

  Disorder
• In the Mental health continuum model, Healthy coping and Reacting fall under the Self-care and social support zones
• In the Mental health continuum model, Poor mental health and mentally ill fall under the Professional care zones
• Social stigma - kind of stigma that involves the prejudiced attitudes that others have around mental illness
• Self-perceived stigma - kind of stigma that involves internalized stigma that the person with the mental illness suffers from
• Institutionl stigma - kind of stignma that is more systemic, involving policies of goverment and private organizations
• Deviance - One of the Four D's, where the behavior displayed is not considered normal anymore in our cultural context
• Dysfunction - One of the Four D's, that interferes in the individual's life in some major way.
• Distress - One of the Four D's, one of its essential components is the extent to which the issue affects the individual, not the objective measure of the severity of the dysfunction
• Danger - One of the Four D's, if the individual is becoming a harmful to their self or to others
• The Biopsychosocial model was developed by George Engel
• Biopsychosocial model - examines biological, psychological, and social factors affecting an individual, to examine how and why disorders occur
• Protective factors - characteristics associated with a lower likelihood of negative outcomes or that reduce a risk factor's impact
• Risk factors - characteristics at the biological, psychological, family, community, or cultural level that precede and are associated with a higher likelihood of negative outcomes
• A referral for counseling should be considered when you believe a friend's problems go beyond your own control and expertise or when you feel uncomfortable helping them with some issue