What Is Mental Health Literacy

Question 1

Do Canadians have difficulty recognizing and identifying mental disorders correctly?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

Do you Canadians prefer psychosocial explanations for mental disorders over biomedical ones. For example preferred think that mental illnesses are mostly due to the life stressors.

Answer 2

Psycho social

Question 3

Do Canadians know how to deal with people with mental illness? Do Canadians associate mental illness with psychotic disorders and are fearful of those labelled mentally ill?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Are Canadians often reluctant to seek professional help even if they need it? Do they have negative attitudes towards medication’s that effectively treat mental illnesses?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

Why are Canadians often reluctant to disclose mental disorders

Answer 5

They fear stigmatization and discrimination.

Question 6

What mental illnesses feared and highly stigmatized?

Answer 6

Psychosis.

Question 7

Why do people remain concerned about this closing their mental illness, especially in the workplace?

Answer 7

The fear discrimination.

Question 8

Is there stigmatization against effective treatments for mental disorders? Is there stigmatization towards medicine and evidence-based psychotherapies?

Answer 8

Yes. It’s common.

Question 9

What are the four parts to mental health literacy?

Answer 9

1. understanding how to obtain and maintain good mental health. 2. Understanding mental disorders and their treatments
2. Decreasing stigma for.
3. Enhancing help-seeking efficacy.

Question 10

Is mental health one of the most common childhood illnesses?

Answer 10

Yes.

Question 11

What are the consequences of not receiving treatment for mental health illnesses?

Answer 11

Failing or dropping out of school. Addiction or involvement with the youth justice system.

Question 12

How can mental health be supported in grade school?

Answer 12

By teaching kids, parents, teachers and other staff working in schools how to identify when a child is sick and how to get them help.

Question 13

What are the 2 big barriers to supporting our kids mental health?

Answer 13

1. Lack of access
2. Stigma

Question 14

What is stigma?

Answer 14

Ignorance.

Question 15

How can stigma be overcome?

Answer 15

By using early intervention by teaching mental health literacy in grade schools.

Question 16

Mental health literacy allows

Answer 16

Self of identification of mental health concerns, who to talk to,

Question 17

What does a mental health literate environment do?

Answer 17

It teaches them mental health diagnosis, signs and symptoms and treatments. Treatment and referrals could be provided or started at the school.

Question 18

What will kids learn?

Answer 18

We all have strengths and challenges in learning growing and how our brains work.
It’s normal for brains to sometimes get sick.