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what is a mental heath problem

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is when a person is experiemcing diffculties in how they behave and think

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what is menatl health state

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is when a person is feeling certain emotions

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how is modern life makes mental health more challening

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modern life nakes elderly people feel isolated by putting them in a captive due tp thoer loses so they are more likely to suffer

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how has social stigma around mental health chnaged

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people were perceived as crazy and lunitics but then more people started to sympathize for the people whp are suffering

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how do different cultures percieve mental health problems

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some menatl health problem are not to be recogmise form anoter culture for exaple hearing voices in western can be seen as hallucinations

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effects of menta; health problems on individula

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on individual
damage to relationships
diffculty in coping day to day life
physical well being

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…..on society

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social care
increased crime rates
econmoy and the cost

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whats the diffenrce between sad and depression

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sad is a normal human emotion whereas depression is a abnormal emotional state

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what is uniplar depresssion and bipolar depression

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unipolar experimceing one emotional state

bipolar two emotional states

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what are the key symptoms of depressions

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low mood
reduced energy levels
loss of interets and pleasure

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what is the biological explanation of depression

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is that we have depression bevause of low levels of serotonin binding into the post synaptic

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the reason why we have low serotonin levels

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is genetic inheritted by parents or ecause of the typhoran ingredn t on making serotonin

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A03

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ONE STRENGTH THERE IS SUPPPRTED EVIDEMCE …

ONE WEKANESS CANT ESTABLISH THE CAUS AND EFFECT

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what is the psychological explaination of depresssion

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faulty thinking when ut focuses on the negatuve aspect of depression and then negative schemas where u have negative scheas about yourself and ten about the future and then the world
attribution making reason on why the person is behaving that way

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A03

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one strength it has world application …

one wekaness it ignored the other reaosn for depression …

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what is an antidepressant

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is a drug that help with depression and improving your mood

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how do we trest depression

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using SSRI it blocks the reuptake of serotonin makes sure ther eis left and remaining of the serotonin so it can bind into the post synaptic

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one weakness it has side effects ….

one weakness isnt due to imvalance of serotonin we have depression …

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what is CBT

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is a therapy were the therpasit focuses on ow the client think and bahviour

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how thinking

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somone who is depressed have irrational thinkng and someone who has good menatl health has rattional thinking

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how about bahvior

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behavior activation where plan out activities that will cause and prodcue pleasnet moods

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how does the therapist tackle with irrational

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they try to dipute and challnge on why they are thinkng this way

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how does the client deals with irrational thiughth

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y having a thought diary

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one strength it long lasting ….

one wekaness requires alot of effert from the patient …

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oulrine wiles study of treating depression
he wanted to see if treatijg depression by using antidepressenat and CBT will be an affecfive way of treating it he assesed the symptoms using the BDI
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one strength found the best ad most effectve way of treating depression and so he imporved and benefited society by fnding the right medication and way of treating depression one strength he used a trsyted resource BDI
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what is addiction
is a mentl health probkem where a person uses a substance for pleasure but then eventually thye become obssessive over it
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what is dependce
is either indicated by a complusio to keep on taking the drug or a continue behaviour by withdrawl symptoms
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whats the difference between misuse and abuse
misuse is that u are taking more drug than you should you are not following the guidelines for it abuse is you are taking the subtance with a bad purpose like euphoria
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dignosising addiction
strong desire for the subtance they see the substance as a high priority than other thungs withdrawl stae diffsult in the controlllibf yse still use despite lnwoing how harmful it is keep on increaing the doses
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what is the heredeitaory factors
the genetuc information that is passed on to the genatration and next
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what is genetic vulnerability
having a hugh risk of developing addiction
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what is kajis study about
his aim he wanted to see if addiction of alcholism is because oif someones genes . he took male sweden twins and atleast one of them experiences alchohol abuse so he inerivewd to get information . he foundout that among those set of twins there was a hugh precenmtage of addiction of alcholism being identical than not so 61 percent oidentical where 39 percent were not so he concluded that alcjolism is related because of somien egenes
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ONE STRENGTH THERE IS SUPOOSRTED EVEIDNECE .... ONE WEKANESSS IS THAT THERE MAY BE OTHER FACTORS ....
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WHAT IS PEER INFLUECE
how do the peers affect us
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what is social learnung theory
you start copying somone moves espically when they are being rearded and you would espically copy if you saw them as an idol and role model and we like to obsevre other people and copy them
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what is social norms
a social norm is used when you dont know how to act in a certian situation so then you start copying other peoples behaviorus bevause you have no idea what to do
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social identity theory
people feel a huge pressure and feeel the ned to conforfrom other peoples groups in ordere to be accepted and liked by these group of people
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oppurtonites
is when your peers would give you cnaces on how and where you shpuld take the substance , instruction provide you a sfae place
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one strength there is supported evidece ..... one wekaness it suggests that peer influence is the one that acses addiction ...
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what is aversion therapy
a form of therapy where the participant wil be exposed to thuer addictive sustance and then they are expsed to some disocomfort and that would eventually be asscoiated with thier substace and makes them stop taking it
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how aversion therapy treats alchoholism
the perosn is exposed to something that makes tem feel nauseous and about to vomit and then they are exposed to their addictict substace and that woud eventually tsop them from taking it
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how we treat gamblers
the person will write down notes for gamling and not gambling phrass whever he reads a gambling note he will get an electric shock so that will eventallu makes the eprson stop wthin the activity if gambling
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treating smokers ?
he person is sent to a romm hwere he will keep on smokig non stop and evetaluu he will feel tired and about to vomit
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one wekaness its not that effective .... one wekaness it may not be suitabe for eveyone ...
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what is slef managment
when someone has a mental helath problem , work on recpebry without any assictmace of help
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what is the 12 step revpevrry prgramme
they are led by a group of alchoholic that is still in use of tofay
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what does it consist of
the hugher power is you are givingup tje addicton that you are expericing to somone wo has hig powers like god admitting and sharing guilt : the adict must accept what they ahve dpne worng and start sharing ther misatkes to others and get any forgivness , publicly announcing ypur guilts makes you feel ashamed and guilty of your doings life long process they knwowlege that addiction is along rev=covery process so the group tale eachother numbers for suport or any needed help
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what is self help group
is a group of people that share a common problem
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one weakness it only works for some people ..... one weakness they dont see it effective as there was no differnce of the rest ....
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clinical depression
a mental disorder characterised by low moods and low energy levels
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reductionist
undertandung the whole of human behaviour didvided into consitunet paprts Like aversion therapy
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holistic
the beleief undertanding the whole human behaviour by undertandng the bigger picture rather than consituent parts Like the self management groups

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