Health Sciences 1001A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Lithium Carbonate, Light Therapy, Cognitive Model
4 Feb 2013
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Psychological health mental health, defined either negatively as the absence of illness or positively as the presence of wellness. Our capacity to think, feel and behave in ways that contribute to our ability to enjoy life and manage challenges. With good psychological health people have a sense of emotional and spiritual well being that values, fairness, culture, dignity and interpersonal connection. Positive definition psychological health as the presence of wellness is a more ambitious outlook that encourages us to fulfill our own potential. Wrote a book called toward a psychology of being describes an ideal of mental health. Suggested that people have a hierarchal of needs. Self-actualization the highest level of growth in maslow"s hierarchy (an ideal to strive for) Realism self actualized people are realistic and are able to cope with the world as it exists without demanding that it be different; they know what they can change and what they can not.
