HLTHAGE 3N03 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Mental Disorder, Anxiety, Stereotype
11 Oct 2018
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HLTHAGE 3N03
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Fall 2018
AGING AND MENTAL HEALTH
HLTHAGE 3N03 FALL 2018
INTRODUCTION TO AGING AND MENTAL HEALTH
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Identify and describe several theoretical perspectives of mental health and aging
2. Describe the experience of different mental illnesses, including the signs and
symptoms, assessment protocols and treatment for the illnesses
3. Describe the context in which mental health and aging occur in Canada including
consideration of the healthcare system, changing family structure, and cultural
context
4. Use critical thinking to challenge the way in which aging and mental health is
represented in society
5. Apply your knowledge to develop a plan of care for an older adult with mental
illness or mental health problems
LECTURE OBJECTIVES
1. Understand the different ways to define aging
2. Define mental health and mental illness and understand the difference between
the 2 terms
3. Identify the various terms used to represent mental health in the literature
4. Explain the ill being/well-being dimensions model
5. Articulate why understanding mental health and mental illness is so important
on a micro-macro scale
6. Define stigma and its various type
DEFINITIONS OF AGING: WHAT IS NORMAL AGING?
• NORMAL OR USUAL AGING
o aging without biological or mental pathology - no sickness or disease
• OPTIMAL OR SUCCESSFUL AGING
o like a utopia, not only do you have no pathologies in physical or mental
sense but you're also striving at old age, e.g. age friendly environment -
exceeding what's normal)
• PATHOLOGICAL AGING
o pathology - physical or mental defined by signs, symptoms etc.
• Terms all medicalized, around illness or disease
• Mental illness should not be a normal part of aging
HOW DO YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE?
1. STATISTICAL
o Normal distribution curve (bell curve)
o 68% of people would fall around average, on the right end a little above
average and left is a little below average, far R/L are extreme
• Could define aging statistically using a normal distribution
2. FUNCTIONAL
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o Assessing an everyday function someone would do
• E.g. standing up and walking from a chair, dressing yourself,
making meals
o Assess performance based on function in order to examine the impact
aging has on everyday regular activities
• No one way to define aging
• Generally chronological number and can often be predicted
WHAT IS MENTAL HEALTH?
• Public health agency of Canada: the capacity of each and all of us to feel, think
and act in ways that enhance our ability to enjoy life and deal with the challenges
we face. It is a positive sense of emotional and spiritual well-being that respects
the importance of culture, equity, social justice, interconnections and personal
dignity
• World health organization: The state of well-being in which every person realized
their own potential can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively
and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to their community
o Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease (not static - don’t just achieve and forever have
it, can fluctuate, dynamic)
WHAT IS MENTAL ILLNESS
• A recognized, medically diagnosable illness that results in the significant
impairment of an individual’s cognitive, affective or relational abilities
o Result from biological, developmental and or/psychosocial factors
o Can be managed using approaches comparable to those applied to
physical disease (e.g. prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation)
o Mental health is different from mental illness, not polar opposites though
• Mental health problems
o Broader term that includes both mental illnesses and symptoms of mental
illnesses which may not be severe enough to warrant a diagnosis
COMMON MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES
• WELL BEING
o Optimal physiological functioning and experience
o One facet of mental health
• SELF ESTEEM
o Self-worth, self-respect, self-regard, self-acceptance
o The sum of evaluations across important attributes of one’s self
• Global self-esteem, domain specific self-esteem (school, social, etc.)
• AFFECT
o Emotion
• STRESS
o Stressors (daily hassles, major events)
o Coping style (problem focused vs emotion focused)
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Document Summary
What is mental health: public health agency of canada: the capacity of each and all of us to feel, think and act in ways that enhance our ability to enjoy life and deal with the challenges we face. Prevelence in canada: one in five canadians will experience a mental health problem or illness in any given year. It is estimated that 10-20% of canadian youth are affected by a mental illness: approx. 8% of adults will experience major depression at some time in their lives: more people die by suicide than by homicide or motor vehicle accidents, 4th leading cause of disability in the world (important) Across the lifespan: as you age the prevalence of mental illness decreases. Stigma: social stigma, a negative stereotype of a group of people (e. g. those with mental illness, can lead to discrimination (the behavior that results from negative stereotype, self-stigma.
