Exam 1 - Chapter 1 Flashcards
What skills do individuals with good mental health have?
- Ability to recognize own potential
- Cope with normal stress
- Work productively
- Make contribution to community
What are traits of good mental health?
- Think rationally
- Communicate appropriately
- Learn
- Grow emotionally
- Be resilient
- Have a healthy self-esteem
- Realistic goals and reasonable function within individual’s role
Disorders with definable a definable diagnosis are what?
Mental illness
Mental illness includes significant dysfunction in mental functioning related to what?
- Developmental
- Biological
- Physiological disturbances
Is mental illness culturally defined?
Yes
The ability and capacity to secure resources needed to support well-being is called what?
Resilience
What is resilience characterized by?
- Optimism
- Sense of mastery
- Competence
Is resilience essential to recovery?
Yes
Is mental illness versus physical illness just a perception?
Yes (they work together)
What model signifies nature versus nurture theory in relation to mental illness?
Diathesis-stress model
What does diathesis stand for in the diathesis-stress model?
A biological predisposition
What does stress stand for in the diathesis-stress model?
Environmental stress or trauma
What is the most accepted explanation for mental illness?
Diathesis-stress model
What model signifies the the combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors?
Diathesis-stress model
The assertion of what implies that most phychiatric disorders result from a combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors?
Diathesis-stress model
What does the study of distribution or mental disorders identify?
- High-risk groups
- High-risk factors
The number of new cases in a given time is called what?
Incidence
The number of cases regardless of when they began in called what?
Prevalence
The risk that one will develop a disease in the course of a lifetime is called what?
Lifetime risk
Groups treated for specific mental disorders are studied for what?
- Natural history of illness
- Diagnostic screening tests
- Interventions
The results from groups treated for specific mental disorders is used to describe the frequency of what?
- Mental disorders
- Symptoms appearing together
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition?
DSM-V
What is the official medical guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association for diagnosing?
DSM-V
What is based on specific criteria influenced by multiprofessional clinical field traits
DSM-V
