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Mental Health and Mental Illness: Basics
Mental Illness/Disorder 2
Mental Health 2
Legal Definition of Mental Illness 2
Positive Mental Health: Jahoda’s Six Major Categories 2
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs 3
General Adaptation Syndrome 4
Fight-or-Flight Response 4
Theories of Personality Development 5
Psychoanalytic Theory 5
Topographic Model of the Mind 5
Key Defense Mechanisms 6
Stages of Personality Development 7
Freud’s Psychosexual Development 7
Sullivan’s Interpersonal Theory 7
Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory 8
Mahler’s Theory of Object Relations 8
Peplau’s Interpersonal Theory 9
Biological Aspects of Mental Illness 10
Central and Peripheral Nervous System 10
The Brain 11
Limbic System 12
Autonomic Nervous System 13
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Effects 13
Synapse Transmission 15
Neurotransmitters 16
Neurotransmitter Functions and Effects 16
Legal-Ethical Issues 16
Confidentiality 16
Dos and Don’ts of Confidentiality 16
When Confidentiality Must Be Breached 17
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
(HIPAA) Act (1996) 17
Types of Commitment 18
Restraints and Seclusion – Behavioral Healthcare 18
A Patient’s Bill of Rights 19
Informed Consent 20
Right to Refuse Treatment/Medication 20
Mental Illness/Disorder 2
Mental Health 2
Legal Definition of Mental Illness 2
Positive Mental Health: Jahoda’s Six Major Categories 2
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs 3
General Adaptation Syndrome 4
Fight-or-Flight Response 4
Theories of Personality Development 5
Psychoanalytic Theory 5
Topographic Model of the Mind 5
Key Defense Mechanisms 6
Stages of Personality Development 7
Freud’s Psychosexual Development 7
Sullivan’s Interpersonal Theory 7
Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory 8
Mahler’s Theory of Object Relations 8
Peplau’s Interpersonal Theory 9
Biological Aspects of Mental Illness 10
Central and Peripheral Nervous System 10
The Brain 11
Limbic System 12
Autonomic Nervous System 13
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Effects 13
Synapse Transmission 15
Neurotransmitters 16
Neurotransmitter Functions and Effects 16
Legal-Ethical Issues 16
Confidentiality 16
Dos and Don’ts of Confidentiality 16
When Confidentiality Must Be Breached 17
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
(HIPAA) Act (1996) 17
Types of Commitment 18
Restraints and Seclusion – Behavioral Healthcare 18
A Patient’s Bill of Rights 19
Informed Consent 20
Right to Refuse Treatment/Medication 20
Mental health is defined as: a state of successful performance of mental
function, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other
people, and the ability to adapt to change and cope with adversity. (US
Surgeon General Report, Dec 1999)
Wellness-illness continuum – Dunn’s 1961 text, High Level Wellness, altered
our concept of health and illness, viewing both as on a continuum that was
dynamic and changing, focusing on levels of wellness. Concepts include:
totality, uniqueness,
The legal definition of insanity/mental illness applies the M’Naghten Rule,
formulated in 1843 and derived from English law. It says that: a person is
innocent by reason of insanity if at the time of committing the act, [the
person] was laboring under a defect of reason from disease of the mind as
not to know the nature and quality of the act being done, or if he did know
it, he did not know that what he was doing was wrong.There are variations
of this legal definition
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow developed a hierarchy of needs based on attainment of
self-actualization, where one becomes highly evolved and attains
his or her full potential.
The basic belief is that lower-level needs must be met first in order
to advance to the next level of needs. Therefore, physiologic and
safety needs must be met before issues related to love and
belonging can be addressed, through to self actualization.
SELFACTUALIZATION
(The individual
possesses a
feeling of selffulfillment
and
the realization
of his or her
highest potential.)
SELF-ESTEEM
ESTEEM-OF-OTHERS
(The individual seeks self-respect
and respect from others, works to
achieve success and recognition in
work, and desires prestige from
accomplishments.)
LOVE AND BELONGING
(Needs are for giving and receiving of
affection, companionship, satisfactory
interpersonal relationships, and
identification with a group.)
SAFETY AND SECURITY
(Needs at this level are for avoiding harm, maintaining
comfort, order, structure, physical safety, freedom from
fear, and protection.)
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS
(Basic fundamental needs include food, water, air, sleep, exercise,
elimination, shelter, and sexual expression.)
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