Week 1

Question 1

Mental Health

Answer 1

Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community

 Underpins our individual and collective abilities to make decisions and build relationships

 Basic human right

 Crucial to personal, community and socio-economic development

Question 2

Mental Illness

Answer 2

a condition that causes alterations in an individual’s thoughts, mood and/or behavior and includes significant functional impairment?

 an impairment in functioning with diagnosable signs and symptoms.

Question 3

Wellbeing

Answer 3

a state that occurs when individuals have the psychological, social and physical resources they need to meet a particular challenge

Question 4

Mental Health Problems Symptoms:

Answer 4

 Extreme mental distress

 Mental changes (thinking, mood, and behavior) that significantly affect the way a person copes or functions.

 Extended/significant distress, coping and impaired functioning

Question 5

Who can diagnose mental illnesses?

Answer 5

 Medical doctors including psychiatrists

 Psychologists

Question 6

Mental health and mental illness:

Answer 6

 They are conceptualized as 2 intersecting continua

 two distinct, related dimensions

 From poor mental health to optimal mental health & From no symptoms of mental illness to serious mental illness

Question 7

What causes mental illness:

Answer 7

There is no single cause of any mental health problem or illness.

 Most studies suggest that a combination of factors contribute to the:
-gentic factors
- biological factors
- environmental factors
- physical factors

Question 8

Social determinants of Health:

Answer 8

 Basic needs including housing, social connections, and food security are important for good mental health

 Top 3 determinants that effect mental health are:
1) social inclusion
2) freedom from discrimination and violence and
3) access to economic resources

Question 9

Incidence

Answer 9

of new cases in a given timeframe

Question 10

Prevalence

Answer 10

total # of cases overall

Question 11

Stigma

Answer 11

negative attitudes and beliefs (prejudice)

Question 12

Discrimination

Answer 12

Negative responses = behaviour that results from stigma

Question 13

Ableist language

Answer 13

devalues anyone with a disability e.g., crazy, lunatic, psycho,“so depressed my favourite show is being canceled”