PSYC 3490 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11 & 12: Clozapine, Comorbidity, Heart Failure
7 Feb 2018
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Chapter 11 mental health issues and treatment. Factors that influence the mental health and social well-being of older adults: retirement, changes in income, physical changes, changes in social support networks. It provides health and social service providers with current evidence-based approaches in the application of mental health promotion concepts and principles for older adults. Increase resilience and protective factors: decrease risk factors, reduce inequities. Dsm-5: major psychiatric manual in canada and the u. s, factors that contribute to diagnosis, meet minimum number of specific criteria, severity of symptoms, how much stress the individual experiences, overall level of functioning. Diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm), which is the major reference used by mental health professionals. In some other countries, clinicians and researchers use the internal statistical classification of diseases and related health. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders: the term schizophrenia refers to a disorder in which individuals experience distorted perception of reality and impairment in thinking, behaviour, affect, and motivation.
