Health Sciences 1001A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Abraham Maslow, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Tantrum

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1001A/B
• Professor: Shauna Burke

Document Summary

Psychological health (or mental health) contributes to every dimension of wellness. It can be very difficult to maintain emotional, social, or even psychical wellness if you are not psychologically healthy. Psychological, or mental, health, is defined either negatively as the absence of illness or positively as the presence of wellness. Psychological or mental health can be defined as our capacity to think, feel, and behave in ways that contribute to our ability to enjoy life and manage challenges. Our psychological wellness can be supported or sabotaged by a variety of factors, such as dietary choices, sleep patterns, and relationship issues. With good psychological health, people have a positive sense of emotional and spiritual well-being that values fairness, culture, dignity, and interpersonal connections. A positive definition psychological health as the presence of wellness is a more ambitious outlook that encourages us to fulfill our own potential. During the 1960s, abraham maslow described such an ideal of mental health in his book.