HSCI 214 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mental Status Examination, Endocrine System, Sweat Lodge
4 Apr 2016
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No single deiniion of mental health is widely accepted according to who. For most part, mental health = absence of mental disorders, emoional problems, or distress, but also the presence of factors such as ability to enjoy oneself and the capacity to paricipate meaningfully in daily life. Good mental health associated with posiive self-esteem, happiness, interest in life, work saisfacion, mastery and sense of coherence, and enables individuals to realize their potenial and contribute to society. At populaion level, good mental health associated with good physical health, economic producivity, and greater social cohesion and stability. Mental status examinaion: a structured assessment of the paient"s behavioral and cogniive funcioning. Health of the human mind: brain versus mind. Brain is physical organ of the body that produces mental acivity, mind is set of funcions and experiences resuling from combinaion of brain acivity and environment where it operates. Cultural, historical, educaional inluences play large role in shaping the mind.
