Mental Health Basics
This term refers to overall emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
What is mental health?
This is the most common category of mental illness in the U.S
What are anxiety disorders?
Primary prevention aims to do this.
What is prevent mental illness before it occurs?
This class of drugs slows brain activity.
What are depressants?
This type of injury is deliberate.
What is intentional injury?
This term includes both mental health and substance use conditions.
What is behavioral health?
These factors increase the likelihood of developing mental illness.
What are risk factors?
Secondary prevention focuses on this.
What is early detection and treatment?
This class increases alertness and energy.
What are stimulants?
This includes abuse between family members.
What is interpersonal violence?
This describes diagnosable conditions that affect thinking, mood, or behavior.
What is mental illness?
Examples include strong social support and coping skills.
What are protective factors?
Tertiary prevention aims to do this
What is reduce disability and improve functioning?
This term refers to needing more of a substance to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
This includes war and terrorism.
What is collective violence?
This classification includes disorders that significantly interfere with major life activities.
What is Serious Mental Illness (SMI)?
This term describes the ability to recover from adversity.
What is resilience?
Negative attitudes and discrimination toward mental illness is called this.
What is stigma?
This strategy aims to reduce negative consequences without requiring abstinence.
What is harm reduction?
This tool analyzes factors before, during, and after an injury.
What is the Haddon Matrix?
This classification includes diagnosable mental disorders but may not severely impair functioning.
What is Any Mental Illness (AMI)?
This public health approach studies distribution and determinants of mental disorders.
What is epidemiology?
This tool measures health-related quality of life over time.
What is HRQOL-14?
This is one of the five components used to assess substance use disorders and indicates pattern of use.
What is frequency?
Key nursing strategy when caring for victims of violence.
What is ensuring safety and providing trauma-informed care?