FRHD 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Substance Dependence, Personality Disorder, Comorbidity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3060
• Professor: Jason Wilson

Document Summary

Mental health is distinct from mental illness and each is on a separate continuum. Mental health is not simply the absence of mental illness, but rather on a continuum, with (cid:498)flourishing(cid:499) at the one end and (cid:498)languishing(cid:499) at the other. Mental health can be promoted and supported (or neglected and undermined) wherever the individual is situated on these continua. A person with a mental illness can have better (flourishing) or worse (languishing) mental health as can a person without a mental illness. Social determinants of mental health: sanitation, violence, poverty, homelessness, social exclusion, pollution, racism, overcrowding, abandoned housing, access to food, safety, access to healthcare, green space, justice, sustainable resources. In this positive sense, mental health is the foundation for individual well-being and the effective functioning of a community. Tend to focus more on younger populations. Life course perspective: thinking about how impacts of mental illness in younger people affect them as they age.