HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Salutogenesis, Stereotype, Psychotherapy
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Mental health = a state of well-being, where a person: Mental health: reaches her/his optimal abilities, can cope with normal stresses, can meet their needs, can work productively, has a sense of achievement, can contribute to her/his community. Best approach: salutogenic models optimal, focus on promoting good mental health and preventing illness, differs from focus on illness and treatment. Optimal mental health flourishing minimal mental health languishing. Languishing: neither mentally healthy or ill ex) less severe than mental illness, feelings of distress, emptiness, stagnation, impairment of mental abilities, failure to achieve goals, destructive behaviours, entrenchment of inequities. Mental illness/disorder recognized, medically diagnosable illness results in the significant impairment results from biological, developmental and/or psychosocial factors. Managed using approaches similar to those for physical disease: ex) prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Absence of mental illness maximal mental disorder. Absence of mental illness: absence of psychiatric symptoms, effective prevention or cure. Maximal mental disorder: greatest severity, frequency, and range of psychiatric symptoms.
