Psychosocial Health: Achieving Mental, Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Wellness

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Chapter 2
Part 1 Finding the Right Balance

• Psychosocial Health Achieving Mental, Emotional,
  Social, and Spiritual Wellness

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Psychosocial Dimensions OfHealth

• INTELLECTUAL (thinking)
• EMOTIONAL (feeling)
• SOCIAL (relationships)
• SPIRITUAL (being)

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Psychosocial Health

• How we face lifes up and downs
• Challenges
• Disappointments
• Joys frustrations
• Pain
• Complex interaction
• Between a persons history and conscious
  unconscious thoughts interpretations of the past

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Resiliency CharacteristicsPS Health

• Feel good about themselves
• Feel comfortable with people
• Control tension stress
• Meet the demands of life
• Curb hate guilt

• Positive outlook
• Enrich the lives of others
• Cherish things that make them smile
• Value diversity
• Appreciate nature

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Consider Your Personal PsychosocialHEALTH !
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INTELLECTUAL HEALTHThe Thinking You

• The ability to
• reason / interpret / remember
• sense / perceive / evaluate
• solve problems / sort through clutter of life
• Positive / negative development
• develop healthy attitudes beliefs - body,
  family, relationships, and life
• learn, understand, appreciate
• differences / contradictions

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EMOTIONAL HEALTHIntense FEELINGS / SUBJECTIVE

• Minute to minute
• Day to day
• Loving
• Caring
• Hating
• Hurt
• Despair
• Release

• Joy
• Anxiety
• Fear
• Frustration
• Anger
• The emotional experience

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Lazarus - Four Basic TypesEMOTIONS

• Emotions from harm, loss or threats
• From benefits
• Borderline - hope and compassion
• Complex - grief, disappointment, bewilderment and
  curiosity

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EMOTIONAL RESPONSES(Non Life-threatening)
HEALTH vs. UNHEALTHY

• Healthy
• Stable
• Appropriate
• Non-extreme
• Behave consistently
• Adopt an offensive attack mode

• Unhealthy
• Feelings overpower
• Highly volatile
• Unpredictable emotional outbursts
• Frightening responses
• Verbal / physical violence

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Emotions Social Interactions

• Display
• Hostility
• Withdrawn
• Mood fluctuations
• Grumpy
• Nasty
• Hurtful
• Get Help!!!!

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SOCIAL HEALTHInteractions With
OthersAchievement and Maintenance of Health

• Social bonds
• Provide intimacy
• Belonging / integration
• Give / receive nurturance
• Provide reassurance of worth
• Assistance guidance
• Providing advice
• Feel connected to life live

• Unconditional Love?

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Social Support

• Expressive Support
• Emotional Support / Encouragement
• Structural Support
• Housing / Money
• Children - Families
• Expressive Structural
• Adults - Develop Own
• Social network - Friends /
• Family

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Prejudice Cults Social Health

• Extreme groups / belonging support
• Cults
• Elements / social health
• Negative representation
• Aggressive
• Hate
• Bias

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Spiritual HealthDifficult-to-describe Element
That Gives Zest For Life

• A unifying force that gives propose or meaning to
  life
• Nature, family, religion, community
• Egocentric / self orientated
• Clothing, car, home, possessions
• Western civilization denies spiritual until later
  in life
• Death, failed relationships,
• Midlife crisis - sense of spiritual bankruptcy
• What if i die tomorrow

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Factors Influencing Psychosocial Health

• External influences
• Family - adjustments
• Dysfunctional families
• Greater environment
• Where you live
• Education
• Access to health services

• easy to define
• difficult to assess
• Psychosocially well
• Virtually all the time
• Some of the time
• Almost never

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External Influences

• Family Situations
• healthy / supportive /nurturing / happiness
• OR!
• violence / sexual, physical, emotional abuse /
  distrust / anger / dietary deprivation
• Dysfunctional families
• Greater Environment
• Where you live / safety / stressors / threats
• Education / Lifestyle
• Access to health services

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Internal Influences

• Hereditary traits
• Hormonal functioning
• Physical health status
• Formative years
• school, sports, self
• perception, job,
• relationships
• Personal worth
• Self Esteem

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SELF PERCEPTIONBelieving in Yourself

• Belief in your ability to perform a task
  successfully
• Internal resources allow you to control a
  situation
• Past failures influence what you do now - I give
  up / why bother

• Self - efficacy
• Personal control
• Learned helplessness

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Personality Freud

• Unconscious desire for immediate gratification
• wants and needs- disregards laws / society /
  others
• Personality forces that restrain the Id - Satisfy
  the Id in socially acceptable ways
• Personality forces that act as our conscious

• Id
• Ego
• Superego

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Psychology

• B.F. Skinner - all behavior learned by reward and
  punishment
• Right Vs. Wrong
• Personality development of emotional health
  successful completion of tasks at various ages
• Emotional well being based on hierarchy of needs

• Behavioral psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Humanistic psychology

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Life Span and Maturity

• Personality impossible to define
• Dynamic
• Temperaments change as we grow
• Early development or lack can influence our lives
• Self-esteem - sense of self, respect confidence

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Developing and Maintaining Self-Esteem

• Learn To See Yourself

• Perception from others
• Internalized / realized/ demonstrated
• Strength training for self-esteem
• Find A support group peers who share values,
  goals, positive, honest
• Help you develop as a person

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Self-Esteem.., continued

• Forming realistic expectations
• life is not all Or nothing
• Taking and making time for yourself
• Maintaining physical health
• Examining problems and seeking help (if required)

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Getting Adequate Amounts of Rest

• fix worries or grief
• alcohol or smoking
• avoid heavy meals
• reduce caffeine
• avoid daytime naps
• spend an hour resting
• before trying to sleep
• dont worry about sleep
• clocks / out of direct sight
• sleep at regular schedules

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When Thing Go Wrong Depression.

• Facts Fallacies
• Real Depression not a natural reaction to crisis
  and loss
• People will not snap out of depression with a
  little will power - leading cause of suicide
• Frequent crying not related to depression
• Depression is not all in the mind
• Genetic predisposition
• many causes
• many treatments

• Endogenous - biochemical disorder
  (neurotransmitter)
• Exogenous - external cause
• Symptoms Similar
• sadness
• joyless
• loss of interest - work / school
• fatigue
• hopelessness / worthlessness
• sleeplessness

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Depression continued

• Facts Fallacies
• Real Depression not a natural reaction to crisis
  and loss
• People will not snap out of depression with a
  little will power - leading cause of suicide
• Frequent crying not related to depression
• Depression is not all in the mind
• Genetic predisposition
• many causes
• many treatments

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Treating Depression

• Pharmacological
• relieve symptoms - sleep appetite
• Antidepressant drugs - 80
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• shock treatment
• every 5 seconds for 15 to 20
• minutes

• Psychotherapeutic
• social interpersonal
• cognitive - view life rationally / less
  pessimistic
• 6 to 8 months
• interpersonal therapy - correct chronic human
  relationship problems

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Other Disorders...

• Obsessive
• compulsive
• disorder
• - a disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts
  or habitual behavior that can not be controlled

• cleanliness - washing hand 20 times before eating
• pulling out hair
• self mutilation
• causes are unclear
• avoiding deeper problems
• lack of neurotransmitter serotonin ( emotion
  motivation)

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Anxiety Disorders

• Disorders characterized by persistent feeling of
  anxiety in coping with everyday problems of
  living..,
• fatigue, back pains, headaches, unreality,
• weakness in legs, and losing control.

Take a LOOK INSIDE!
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Phobias and others

• Phobias A deep and persistent fear of a specific
  object, activity, situation
• spiders, flying, heights, public speaking, eating
  in public places
• Panic Attacks
• Disabling Terror
• breathing, heart rate, sweating, shaking,
  choking, trembling
• Heart Attack
• Biochemical imbalance

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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Light Therapy
- Mimics Sunlight

• A Type of Depression
• the winter blues
• reduced sunlight
• irritability, apathy, CHO craving,
• weight gain, more sleep sadness.
• Hypothalamus function
• external stimuli
• response regulator
• women 4X more than men
• ages 20 to 40
• Canadians at high risk
• Latitude matters

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Suicide Giving Up On LifeA Cry for Help, Gone
Wrong

• 3,500 each year
• University Students
• poor coping skills
• lack of social support
• low self-esteem
• perspective of negative situation
• women attempt 4X the rate of men
• men are 3X more successful

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Suicide.. Continued...

• Risk Factors
• family history
• previous attempts
• drug / alcohol
• depression...
• financial
• loss of loved one
• death or rejection

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Warning Signals of Suicide

• I cant take it anymore
• I might as well end it
• soon the pain will be over
• giving away prized possessions
• loss of interest
• personality change
• risk taking
• personal appearance
• drug / alcohol use

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Suicide. Continued!

• monitor warning signals
• take threats seriously
• tell them you care are there for them
• listen
• ask directly
• dont challenge the attempt
• alternatives
• get help / remove pills / guns etc..
• tell family members

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When do I need help????

• I think I need it
• mood swings
• problems effect daily life
• withdrawn
• hallucinations
• life - worth living?
• Inadequate / worthless
• emotional response situation dont match
• crises
• Cant get act together

suicidal drugs/alcohol use
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Seeking Professional Help!

• Psychiatrist Licensed Physician specialists
  mental / emotional disorders
• Psychoanalyst reveals past traumas blocking
  personal growth
• Clinical /Psychiatric Social worker Maters
  Degree, work in clinical settings/ sometimes
  insured by employee assistance programs
• Counsellor Wide variety of services, academic -
  family, relationship, self-esteem, behaviours
• Anyone can have the title of Counsellor-
• so check them out!