PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Preventive Healthcare, Mental Disorder, Psychopathology
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Lecture 9 mental health in the community. Prevalence of disorder outstrips availability of help: how often it occurs, where it occurs, 1/10 for schizophrenia (common, depression is a 25% chance (super common, depression is not the most common, anxiety is the most common. There are many ways to reduce stress. Vacation, music, sports etc: identify where the problem may be coming from, understanding the prevalence of disorders and the genetic and environmental component of psychopathologies. Primary: reduced the incidence: from stopping it from happening in the first place. Secondary: treatment: can be psychosocial or biological. Tertiary: covers rehabilitation: rehab, involves stopping a behaviour and maintain stopping that behaviour. Universal approach: everyone, stop everyone from doing it. Selective prevention: a particular group of people have a problem and you prevent that particular group. Mental health promotion in canada preventative medicine. It"s proactive: you can"t see cigarets, you have to ask for them, preventative medicine.
