AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The associations between mental and physical health are: Poor mental health is a risk factor for chronic physical conditions. People with serious mental health conditions are at high risk of experiencing chronic physical conditions. People with chronic physical conditions are at risk of developing poor mental health.

Detailed explanation-2: -A good risk assessment will combine consideration of psychological (e.g. current mental health) and social factors (e.g. relationship problems, employment status) as part of a comprehensive review of the patient5 to capture their care needs and assess their risk of harm to themselves or other people.

Detailed explanation-3: -People with mental illness are treated, in research, as a ‘class’ or category who are vulnerable, without always being clear why they should be treated as such, not why an individual, rather than the class, is vulnerable. The two main reasons given are lack of competence and power imbalance.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ethical issues of beneficence, nonmaleficence, confidentiality, altruism, justice and nondiscrimination, professionalism, trust, and other seemingly abstract concepts regularly emerge in the daily work of psychiatrists.