Mental Health Conditions, Addiction, and Disease Diagnosis

Common Mental Health Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

A group of disorders characterized by intense fear or anxiety.

Depression

The most common mental illness. Symptoms include excessive sadness and a lack of interest in previously enjoyable activities.

Eating Disorders

Often beginning in adolescence or young adulthood, these are a significant concern, especially for women. Examples include anorexia nervosa and bulimia.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Characterized by difficulties in controlling

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Enhancing Performance: Training, Assessment, and Common Pitfalls

Key Elements of Performance Management

Basics: A Tiered Approach

  • Training: Focuses on the operational level
  • Training: Focuses on the tactical level
  • Development: Focuses on the strategic level

Core Concepts

  • Sense
  • Concepts

Performance Evaluation

  • Concepts
  • Objectives
  • Person-Made Fitness Scheme

Common Problems in Performance Assessment

Steps for Effective Evaluation

Traditional Evaluation vs. 360° Feedback

  • Concept of 360° Feedback
  • HR Role in Performance Evaluation

Also Know This Performance Assessment:

  1. Halo Effect:
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Understanding Knowledge: Individual and Social Construction

The Individual and Social Construction of Knowledge

Subjective Construction of Knowledge

There is no knowledge without a knowing subject; this is someone who can know. So, the question of how knowledge arises must be based on studying how it originates and develops at a subjective level.

The Role of Feelings

Living things have in common that they are sensitive to external stimuli. While each organism expresses this sensitivity in different ways, the sense organs are the structures by which the nervous

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Navigating Aging: Preparation, Impact, and Positive Perspectives

Aging as a Project: Early Preparation

Become aware of the attention given to aging. Be the master of your old age and even death. Prepare by knowing the real condition of the elderly, maintaining a critical attitude towards the social perception of old age, and cultivating your desires.

Impact of Aging

Chronic Diseases

Chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and cerebrovascular accident (CVA) can significantly impact aging.

Psychological Loss

Fluid

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Understanding Beliefs, Disease, and Stress Responses

Beliefs and Social Cognition

Beliefs involve the internalization of values and are part of the world of ideas and thoughts. All human beings have them. They are intelligible and externalized. The Social Cognition Model, proposed by Bandura (1987), suggests that increased risk awareness and knowledge of the prerequisite conditions for change, along with media resources, influence the skills or ability to execute behavior.

Rosenstock’s Model states that for people to get moving and adopt acceptable

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Understanding Personality Disorders: Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic, and Avoidant

F60.3 Borderline Personality Disorder (301.83)

A pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and affect, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following items:

  1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior if covered in Criterion 5.
  2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating
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