Chapter 1

• What is health and wellbeing?


  The state of a person's physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual existence, characterised by an equilibrium in which the individual feels happy, healthy, capable and engaged. 
• What is the WHO definition of health?


  A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing; it is not merely the absence of disease of infirmity.  
• What is infirmity?


  The quality or state of being weak or ill; often associated with old age.  
• What is wellbeing?


  A complex combination of all dimensions of health (social, emotional, physical, mental and spiritual) 
• What is physical health and wellbeing?


  Relates to the functioning of the body and its system; it includes the physical capacity to perform daily activities or tasks.  
• What is social health and wellbeing?


  The ability to form meaningful and satisfying relationships with others and the ability to manage or adapt appropriately to different social situations. 
• What is emotional health and wellbeing?


  The ability to recognise, understand and effectively manage and express emotions as well as the ability to display resilience. 
• What is mental health and wellbeing?


  Relates to the state of a person's mind or brain and the ability to think and process information.  
• What is spiritual health and wellbeing?


  Relates to ideas, beliefs and values and ethics that arise in the mind and conscience of human beings. 
• What is resilience?


  The ability to manage adversity and stress effectively and in a way that increases the ability to respond to future adversity. 
• What is adversity?


  A difficult or unpleasant situation - (from Oxford Languages Dictionary – online search) 
• What does 'dynamic' mean?


  Continually changing
• What is emotional intelligence?


  An individual's ability to recognise and respond to either their own or other emotions. 
• What is self-esteem?


  Reflects a person's overall subjective emotional evaluation of someone's worth. It is a judgement of oneself as well as an attitude towards the self. 
• What is subjective wellbeing?


  Refers to how people experience the quality of their lives and include both how they feel about their lives and what they think about their own personal circumstances. 
• What does 'cognitive mean'?


  The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience and the senses. 
• What is 'self-disclosure'?


  The process of communication by which on person reveals information about their selves to another – can be a form of feelings, thoughts, fears, likes and dislikes.  
• What does 'equilibrium' mean?

  A state of which opposing forced or influences are balanced – synonyms; balance, symmetry (definition from dictionary)