Mental Ill-Health

According to Merriam-Webster, mental health illness is described as a broad range of medical conditions (such as major depression, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, or panic disorder) that are marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, or emotions to impair normal psychological functioning and cause noticeable grief or disability and that are usually related with a disruption in standard judgement, feeling, mood, behavior, interpersonal interactions, or daily functioning. Mental health is described as a level of psychological comfort, or the absence of a mental illness. It is the "psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment from the perspective of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an person 's capability to enjoy life, and produce stability connecting life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. The World Health Organization, suggests mental health illness includes "subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, inter-generational dependence, and self-actualization of one 's intellectual and emotional potential, among others. The WHO further states that the well-being of an individual is encompassed in the recognition of their capabilities, managing with normal stresses of life, constructive work and involvement to their community. Ethnic differences, prejudiced evaluations, and competing professional

Proof written by David Auburn goes through the life of an esteemed mathematician plagued by mental illness. In the beginning of the play Proof we are introduced to a professor at a local Chicago College named Robert. We first are introduced to Robert through a delusion of Catherine’s, another main protagonist of David auburns play. Auburn shows Robert’s genius and madness at various stages throughout the play. Auburn goes on throughout his play to exemplify the impact mental illness has on everyday family life.

Research Stimulation Task: The evaluation of mental illnesses to those that are being diagnosed serve as a basis to alter their way of living, that is to make effective and positive changes. Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health condition disorders that affect your mood, thinking, and behaviour. It is irresistible to act upon knowing the illness you hold and what level it is in the spectrum, and the clarity of your reactions becomes intuitive to society.

The role of preventing mental health from a younger age is important because according to Beyond Blue Youth, “Evidence suggests three in four adult mental health conditions emerge by age 24 and half by age 14.” This is terrible, we should focus on decreasing this so it doesn’t lead to a bigger suicide rate. In 2012 Beyond Blue Youth states, “Suicide is the biggest killer of young Australians and accounts for the deaths of more young people than car accidents.” Preventing mental health from a younger age will not only decrease the suicide rate but how many adults have a mental health issues will decrease. As the conditions won’t emerge before the age of 24, giving the younger generations more chance to not have a mental issue in their adult lives.

In this paper I plan to discuss the developmental stages of adolescence. Adolescents are also referred to as "teenagers" or "young adults." Adolescence begins after the childhood stage and ends right before adulthood. The years of adolescence range from 12 years old to 21 years old. The years of adolescence can be quite a roller coaster ride. Young people in this stage encounter a great deal of changes in their life as they prepare for adulthood. I will discuss emotional, intellectual, physiological, and social domains of development and how it relates to adolescents. I will also discuss some helpful tips for teachers to aide in communicating effectively to adolescents and understanding their

This research article was an analysis run by Pashak, Handal, and Scales (2016) to evaluate the developmental assets model that has been effectively used on children to create a new survey to test on emerging adults. The researchers named their creation the Young Adult Developmental Assets Survey (YADAS). The Search Institute had already developed the 40 assets that were evaluated within YADAS, and as a nonprofit for advancement of health the institute has conducted research over the last 50 years on young people and their success or failure. Their model is one of the most widely cited youth development approaches. It is divided into categories of external assets or internal assets, both which aid in the formation of young people. Their model is known as the PSL-AB. Other researchers have studied what makes emerging adults (18-29) thrive in emerging adulthood, and those findings were also included in the introduction. For this study, researchers aimed to test the efficacy of the PSL-AB, and also to test if the program could act a support and intervention tool for universities to promote young adults’ mental and physical health.

Psychological disorders are stated to be abnormalities of the mind, known as mental disorders (Klasco, 2011). Abnormalities of the mind cause persistent behaviors that affect an individual’s daily function and life (Klasco, 2011). The different types of psychological disorders include mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders (Klasco, 2011). The causes of these disorders are unknown, but factors that contribute to these disorders include childhood experiences, chemical imbalances in the brain, illnesses, heredity, stress, and prenatal exposures (Klasco, 2011). Psychological disorders can be serious and can be life-threatening

According to the 2011 results on the AIHW report, 93% of young Australians rate their physical and mental health status as 'good', 'very good' or 'excellent'. However, some serious health problems specific to this age group have the potential to undermine their wellbeing, among them mental disorders, sexual health, overweight, obesity or problems with substance use can affect their physical and mental health. Certain mental issues like such as depression disorder, anxiety and physical disorders like sensory impairments, obesity can have implications for a young person’s psychosocial growth and development, health care needs, educational and occupational attainment, and involvement with the justice system (AIHW, 2011).

When you turn on the news and see mass shootings, what do you think of? The thoughts that come to my mind are what could drive these people to hurt innocent citizens. There has to be some voice in these people’s heads telling them to pull back the trigger or a reason why they act out the way they do. Something in the biology of their human brain has malfunctioned. These people have a mental illness. In my paper I will informing you with the biology of a mental illness. The specific information of the biology of a mental illness I will be telling you about is what the biology of a mental illness it, diagnosing a mental illness, and how the biology of mental disorders has affected the world.

Poor mental health represents a significant problem worldwide and in the UK, with approximately 16% of the population being affected at any given time (Foresight, 2008 and Department of Health, 2009). This is a particular concern in Scotland where approximately one in six individuals show signs of poor mental health (Audit Scotland, 2009). Scotland also has particularly high suicide rates which exceed those for the rest of the UK (Smith-Merry et al., 2009 and Mok et al., 2012). In addition to the personal cost to the individual, poor mental health has significant societal and economic implications, representing a £22.5 billion a year direct cost to the English economy alone (McCrone et al., 2008). In Scotland, the direct and indirect costs of poor mental health are estimated to be £10.7 billion (Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH), 2011). Subsequent understanding of what factors have an impact upon mental health at the individual and societal level is of great importance to future research and intervention.

Psychology is the study of the human behavior and many. For many years, psychologist and researchers have formed their own theological perspective on human nature.Through years of research and experimentation, psychologist sought to find why we behave the way we do. One goal of a psychologist is to assess and treat mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. These disorders, may range from short term crises, resulting from childhood or adolescent conflicts, to more severe chronic conditions such as schizophrenia. Through counseling sessions, psychologist aim to give clients insight into their behavior, thoughts andor disorders, and teach the client to adapt positive coping strategies to implant in their every lives to avoid relapse.

Adolescence is the transitional period in a persons life time that links childhood and adulthood. The factors that influence development during adolescence include genetic/biological and environmental/social. There are many developmental issues that take place during the transition from an adolescent to a young adult. The issues of emerging adulthood(18-25) are characterized by new experiences, experimentation, exploration as well as new developmental tasks.

Adolescence is the distinct transitional stage between childhood and adulthood in human development, extending primarily over the teenage years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached (Rathus, 2014). However in some instances, this biological, cognitive, social and emotional maturity may not be reached until a later stage and may be dictated by gender. Adolescence is characterised by rapidly changing and unpredictable behaviour (Freud, as cited in Rathus 2014), heightened and unstable emotions (Hall, as cited in Rathus 2014), disturbances in identity, the gradual development of one’s moral reasoning (Kohlberg, as cited in Rathus, 2014) and the gradual establishment of one’s independence. Several of these changes may occur at differing phases in adolescent growth. This development is categorized into three separate stages; early adolescence, middle adolescence, and late adolescence. Early Adolescence, commencing from the ages of eleven or twelve until the age of fourteen, comprises of several features such as rapid biological development and maturity, heightened stress levels and limited coping capabilities. On the other hand, middle adolescence, from the approximate age of fourteen to sixteen, involves the gradual cease of biological change, an increase in coping strategies and declined stress levels. Furthermore, late adolescence, commencing from the age of sixteen until the age of eighteen or nineteen, encompasses physical maturity, whereby the

This report will first define what mental illness is, the distinctive characteristics that this illness places on this diverse population and the various impacts that mental illness has had on young New Zealanders, aged 12 – 18, their families and society. This report will also look at historical evidence of mental illness within New Zealand and relevant statistics and the resulting legislation and policies that look to improve the mental health of all New Zealanders.

Youth and adolescence are words which often get confused with each other. The term can get crossed over with one another as they cover a timeframe that is sometimes viewed as the same transition period. Pierre Bourdieu (1978) claims “youth is just a word” however youth is used to describe a person as well as a time in a person’s life. Adolescence on the other hand is used to describe the same stage in life but tends to be more specific to teenage years, once puberty had started. Youth is a wider age range with no specific factors contributing towards it apart from age or place in society. Coleman (1992) implies that an adolescence is a “social phenomenon” social setting and experiences to which the pressures of social expectations start to form. Youth can be a more political word or act as a signifier which can offer recognition to the experiences or struggles young people can go through. Adolescence is quite often seen in a positive life as it is a stage in life everyone on must pass through whereas youth is commonly seen as negative term to describe young people. The Oxford English dictionary (2016) describes youth as “a period between childhood and adult age”. The Oxford dictionary