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Understanding Mental Health and Wrong Perceptions about Mental Illnesses

Coursework Instructions:

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Issue/Event: For this section of your presentation, you will introduce the issue or event and how it relates to issues of wellness and any of the topics that have been discussed in the course.
A. Using appropriate research strategies, describe a social or global issue or event that is related to issues of wellness. [IDS-402-03]
i. What is the origin of the issue?
ii. What is the issue about?
B. Using appropriate research strategies, describe the impact of the issue or event on society. [IDS-402-03]
i. Who is impacted by the issue?
ii. What is important to know about those who are impacted by the issue?
C. Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess how society impacts the chosen issue. [IDS-402-06]
II. Yourself: This section of your presentation explores how studying wellness influences your individual framework of perception with respect to your
discipline of study or profession.
A. How has critically analyzing your issue or event in wellness informed your individual framework of perception? Consider how your analysis has
altered the way you perceive the world. [IDS-402-05]
B. How can critically analyzing wellness influence your field of study or profession? How can studying wellness inform your understanding of the
next big topic of study in your field or profession in the next five to ten years? [IDS-402-01]
III. Society: This section of your presentation explores how studying wellness enhances your ability to engage constructively in society.
A. How does critically analyzing wellness add value to how you interact with people and understand social or global issues or events? Supplement
your reasoning with examples. [IDS-402-04]
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B. Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal and professional goals. What might this look like in your
everyday life? Consider how wellness can be used to address the day-to-day responsibilities or questions faced by practitioners in your field or
discipline. [IDS-402-04]
IV. Conclusion:
A. Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess the benefits and challenges of addressing issues in wellness. [IDS-402-06]
B. Explain how critically analyzing wellness adds value to interactions with people in personal and professional contexts. [IDS-402-02]
V. Presentation: Throughout your presentation, you will be assessed on your ability to use effective communication skills to deliver your message to your
audience.
A. Construct your presentation in a way that ensures the audio and visual elements are logically organized in order to convey your message to your
audience. [IDS-402-05]
B. Provide supporting evidence in your presentation that supports the importance of the chosen issue or event and its impact within wellness. [IDS402-05]
C. Develop the audio narration to logically flow with the presentation to articulate the importance of critically analyzing the chosen issue or event
and its impact within wellness. [IDS-402-05]

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Slide 5.
Health and wellness have been one of the oldest topics in human civilization. Yet we are still far from finding out the truth about several topics that afflict a significant majority of us.
One of these fields that we have yet to understand fully is that of mental health.
Today:
Today, we know that mental health illnesses result from a combination of factors that causes physiological changes in the body. Mainly, modern science has found proof that hormonal imbalances within our bodies may cause this.
However, negative perceptions (i.e., stigma and persecution) of Mental Health issues have their origins in ancient cultures, for example:

  • Ancient Egyptians viewed mental illnesses as a demonic possession

  • Early Romans, Indians, and related Western cultures viewed this as a religious or spiritual problem.


●     Ancient stigma and perception led to barbaric approaches such as “trepanning” (UniteForSight.Org)
 
 
Slide 6
 
Today, we might think that we have already removed these wrong perceptions about mental health. However, studies show that
Mental health illnesses are still some of the most common yet ‘misunderstood’ problems around the world
◦       Statistics:
○     In the World: about 10.7% or 792 million were reported to have a diagnosable mental illness in the year 2017 (Dattani, 2021) 
○     Accordingly, in the United States alone: about 26% of Americans ages 18 and older suffer from a mental health illness (Johns Hopkins Medicine) 
This should signify our need for better approaches and understanding of wellness and mental health illnesses. Yet, as we can see, mental health issues still receive the most incredible stigma related to other illnesses.
 
 
Slide 7.
Before moving forward, I believe it is essential to understand that mental health problems are global problems.
On the one hand, being a global problem can afflict anyone worldwide. On the other hand, a global problem could also be construed as creating various direct and indirect problems for everyone.
Let me discuss some of the typical direct and indirect problems that afflict not only an individual but the whole society:
○     Economic problems: lack of motivation to work, unemployment, low levels of education (MayoClinic.Org, 2019)
■     First, mental health illnesses affect our economy. One of the most common manifestations of several mental health illnesses is a lack of motivation to get work, anxiety, and others that hinder the individual’s capacity to make a living. Our economy will be affected if this happens ...
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