HLTHAGE 2G03- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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It"s not up to you, but your social context. Disorder model (aka categorical model: when someone had oor mental health they must have a discreet illness or a. Distress model (dimensional: not about illness people have or get, but the spectrum of human experience, mi are independent entities but on a continuum of psychological distress, part of everyday life. What defines poor mental health is just as contested as good mental health . How a diagnosis is formed: through an interview, not physical exam, thus diagnosis is made by self-reporting, observations of close one can figure. Factors driving mental health and illness: social determinants, e. g. education, culture, income, neighbourhood. Individual experiences: e. g. physical, chaotic house, abusive parent, etc, biological factor, genetics predisposition for good or bad mental health, socially we create labels to describe these experiences as health/normal/safe or problematic, e. g.
