Foundations of Mental Health Exam Practice Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+
Define Mental Health - Answers Attributes of Mental Health:
Accurately appraise reality
Love and experience joy
Deal with conflicting emotions
Live without fear, guilt or anxiety
Take responsibility for one's own actions
Control behaviour
Think clearly (problem solve, good judgment, logical reasoning, insightful conclusions, be creative)
Relate to others (form close, loving, adaptive relationships, experience empathy, manage interpersonal
conflict)
Attain self-defined spirituality
Negotiate each developmental task
Be able to work and be productive
Maintain healthy self-concept and self-value
Be able to play and laugh
*one of the most valuable attributes a person can have
- the way you feel, think, act, and relate to others
Defining concepts of mental health - Answers Shaped by: culture, social values, reflect changes in
cultural norms, society's expectations, dominant medical discourse, corporate and political climates
** in the past "mental health" was seen as 'strange' or 'different'
Define Mental Illness/ disorder - Answers Alterations in cognition, mood, or behaviour coupled with
significant distress and impaired functioning. All mental disorders with definable diagnosis.
,Cognition may be impaired (alzheimer's), mood may be affected (major depression), behaviour may
change (schizophrenia) or all three.
- Impacting person's quality of life (engaging in community, leaving house, or things we want to do)
- Requires medication and/or treatment
** second leading source of disease burden
** depression ranked leading cause of disability
Identify Key Issues that have arisen in Canada in these 3 Historical Periods in regards to understanding
Historical Treatment of People with Mental Illness.
How they may have affected current perceptions, attitudes, or beliefs of mental health treatment
providers? - Answers 1. Before Contact and Colonization:
- Indigenous people had distinct ways of addressing mental health and spiritual concerns
2. First half of the 20th Century:
- treatment focused primarily on institutionalization in large psychiatric hospitals
3. Period after Deinstitutionalization-Now
- many vulnerably housed individuals suffer from serious and persistent mental illnesses (substance use
disorders)
Epp Report - mental health continuum - Answers this depiction of mental health and mental illness
allows for 4 possible outcomes:
1. maximal mental disorder and optimal mental health
2. optimal mental health and absence of mental disorder
,3. absence of mental disorder and minimal mental health
4. minimal mental health and maximal mental disorder
Contributing Factors to Mental Illness/Health (Epidemiology) - Answers Factors that affect the severity
and progression of mental illness (need to be evaluated and factored into plan of care)
- Available support (family, friends, community)
- Spirituality, Religion
- Family influence
- Developmental Events
- Personality traits and states
- Demographic and geographic location
- Negative influences (psychosocial stressors, poverty, impaired/inadequate parenting)
Resilience - Answers the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from
adversity and even trauma
Mental Health Recovery Key Concerns - Answers - Respect for individual contexts and wishes
- Hope for a better future
- Dignity and self determination
- Collaboration and reflection
- Focus on strengths and personal responsibility
Epidemiology of Mental Health
- what have researchers obtained info on
- challenges they face - Answers Obtained info on:
- how mental health and illness are distributed accross population
- percentages of people with good or poor mental health between: (males vs females) (children vs
adults)
Challenges:
, - obtain good quality info that involves very large studies that represent larger population
Epidemiology of Mental Illness - Answers
Compare and Contrast: Mental Health vs. Mental Illness - Answers * Differentiating mental health from
mental illness is to consider culture regards as acceptable or unacceptable behaviour--- mentally ill
people are those who violate social norms. ex. Japanese = suicide is horror VS. Middle East = bombers
are considered holy warriors
Mental Health:
- Accept self and others
- Ability to cope or tolerate stress
- Can return to normal
- Able to form close long-term relationships
- Sound decision making
- Accepts responsibility for actions
- Optimistic
- Identify limitations
- Can function effectively, independently
- Ability to perceive reality
- Ability to develop potential and utilize potential
Mental Illness:
- Feeling of inadequacy/ poor self concept
- Incapability to cope
- Maladaptive behaviour
- Inability to establish a meaningful relationship
- Display poor judgement
Define Mental Health - Answers Attributes of Mental Health:
Accurately appraise reality
Love and experience joy
Deal with conflicting emotions
Live without fear, guilt or anxiety
Take responsibility for one's own actions
Control behaviour
Think clearly (problem solve, good judgment, logical reasoning, insightful conclusions, be creative)
Relate to others (form close, loving, adaptive relationships, experience empathy, manage interpersonal
conflict)
Attain self-defined spirituality
Negotiate each developmental task
Be able to work and be productive
Maintain healthy self-concept and self-value
Be able to play and laugh
*one of the most valuable attributes a person can have
- the way you feel, think, act, and relate to others
Defining concepts of mental health - Answers Shaped by: culture, social values, reflect changes in
cultural norms, society's expectations, dominant medical discourse, corporate and political climates
** in the past "mental health" was seen as 'strange' or 'different'
Define Mental Illness/ disorder - Answers Alterations in cognition, mood, or behaviour coupled with
significant distress and impaired functioning. All mental disorders with definable diagnosis.
,Cognition may be impaired (alzheimer's), mood may be affected (major depression), behaviour may
change (schizophrenia) or all three.
- Impacting person's quality of life (engaging in community, leaving house, or things we want to do)
- Requires medication and/or treatment
** second leading source of disease burden
** depression ranked leading cause of disability
Identify Key Issues that have arisen in Canada in these 3 Historical Periods in regards to understanding
Historical Treatment of People with Mental Illness.
How they may have affected current perceptions, attitudes, or beliefs of mental health treatment
providers? - Answers 1. Before Contact and Colonization:
- Indigenous people had distinct ways of addressing mental health and spiritual concerns
2. First half of the 20th Century:
- treatment focused primarily on institutionalization in large psychiatric hospitals
3. Period after Deinstitutionalization-Now
- many vulnerably housed individuals suffer from serious and persistent mental illnesses (substance use
disorders)
Epp Report - mental health continuum - Answers this depiction of mental health and mental illness
allows for 4 possible outcomes:
1. maximal mental disorder and optimal mental health
2. optimal mental health and absence of mental disorder
,3. absence of mental disorder and minimal mental health
4. minimal mental health and maximal mental disorder
Contributing Factors to Mental Illness/Health (Epidemiology) - Answers Factors that affect the severity
and progression of mental illness (need to be evaluated and factored into plan of care)
- Available support (family, friends, community)
- Spirituality, Religion
- Family influence
- Developmental Events
- Personality traits and states
- Demographic and geographic location
- Negative influences (psychosocial stressors, poverty, impaired/inadequate parenting)
Resilience - Answers the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from
adversity and even trauma
Mental Health Recovery Key Concerns - Answers - Respect for individual contexts and wishes
- Hope for a better future
- Dignity and self determination
- Collaboration and reflection
- Focus on strengths and personal responsibility
Epidemiology of Mental Health
- what have researchers obtained info on
- challenges they face - Answers Obtained info on:
- how mental health and illness are distributed accross population
- percentages of people with good or poor mental health between: (males vs females) (children vs
adults)
Challenges:
, - obtain good quality info that involves very large studies that represent larger population
Epidemiology of Mental Illness - Answers
Compare and Contrast: Mental Health vs. Mental Illness - Answers * Differentiating mental health from
mental illness is to consider culture regards as acceptable or unacceptable behaviour--- mentally ill
people are those who violate social norms. ex. Japanese = suicide is horror VS. Middle East = bombers
are considered holy warriors
Mental Health:
- Accept self and others
- Ability to cope or tolerate stress
- Can return to normal
- Able to form close long-term relationships
- Sound decision making
- Accepts responsibility for actions
- Optimistic
- Identify limitations
- Can function effectively, independently
- Ability to perceive reality
- Ability to develop potential and utilize potential
Mental Illness:
- Feeling of inadequacy/ poor self concept
- Incapability to cope
- Maladaptive behaviour
- Inability to establish a meaningful relationship
- Display poor judgement
