Mental health
- Ability to perceive reality, to respond and develop strategies for coping
- Good mental health means you can go through conflicts and distress with resilience and growth
Emotional health
- Good sense of moods and good ability to express them in productive ways
- See situations as half full
- Conscious mental reaction, usually directed towards a specific object or person
- An emotional healthy person: Understands they are not the center of the universe, can respond property to very good and very bad situations
- Control over decisions
- High level of optimism
- A passion for work and play
Emotional intelligence (EQ)
- Ability to understand your emotions, and the emotions of others
- Important to balance intellect with emotions
- Stay in the now
- Self-awareness, altruism, personal motivation, ability to love and be loved
Spiritual intelligence
- Capacity to enhance individuals’ capabilities and qualities such as compassion, creativity and wisdom
- Improving the self-awareness and feelings of connection with divine energy
- Listen to your heart not head
Describe maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Pyramid (from the bottom up)
- Physiological needs: Fulfillment of needs for food, water, shelter, sleep, sexual expression
- Safety- security: Ability to protect oneself from harm
- Love and belonging: Ability to give and receive affection
- Self- esteem: Respect for self-respect of others
- Self-actualization: fulfillment of one’s potential
Instrumental values
Ways of thinking and acting
Terminal values
Represent end goals or states we strive towards
Feelings
bodily sensations that indicate that we are feeling a type of emotion
Mood
Sustained emotional state, often linger without a cause
Emotion
A natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others
Define mental illness
- “Changes in thinking, mood, or behaviours associated with significant distress and impaired functioning over an extended period of time”
- What are some trends related to gender and mental health?
Components of emotional intelligence
- Self-awareness
- Altruism: acts of giving to others without thoughts of benefit
- Personal Motivation
- Empathy
- The ability to love and be loved
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
takes into consider, the role of early and unconscious behaviours actively shaping behaviour
Psychoneuroimmunology
Acknowledges the interactions between psychological factors, our central nervous system and our immune function that is regulated by our neuroendocrine system
Interpersonal therapy
Focuses on relationships and unrecognized feelings
Cognitive behavioural therapy
Focuses on bad thoughts to break out of a bad way of thinking
Psychiatric drug therapy
Alter brain chemistry
Alternative mind- mood medicine
Increasingly consumers are trying natural products, such as herbs and enzymes that claim to have psychological effects
