FRHD 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vitamin Deficiency, Environmental Health, Behaviour Therapy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2060
• Professor: Scott Maitland

Document Summary

Mental health: the ability to strike a balance in all aspects of your life: social, physical, spiritual, economic, and mental, characteristics of healthy people. Growth and self actualization: characteristics of mental pathology. Behaviours that are harmful to oneself or others. Perceived as distressing, disrupting, abnormal, or maladaptive: adaptive advantages. Health problems increase with age, may manifest in personality. Still often normative with aging: 2. Normative age changes can mimic certain mental disorders. Normative changes can mask true pathology: 3. Differences cross cultures to be discussed later: 4. 60+ have lower rates of mental health problems: goes against the stereotype that older people are depressed, possibly because the depressed ones died already. Ethnicity, gender, aging, and mental health: older minorities may have experience. Multidimensional assessment: measure, understand, and predict behaviour, mini-mental status exam (mmse) Used for evaluation of capacity and competence: assessment methods. Performance based assessment: principles of multidimensional assessment. Age and function are not linearly related in clinical settings.