Class 12 Education Chapter 6 Mental Health & Hygiene

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Class 12 Education Chapter 6 Mental Health & Hygiene

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Mental Health & Hygiene

Chapter: 6

EDUCATION

(a) Write true or false

1. Mental health is the ability to adjust oneself with the environment.

Ans : True.

2. Maintenance of mental health depends on fulfillment of needs.

Ans : True.

3. Mental health is a static state of mind.

Ans : True.

4. Mental health is related to the social values, norms and standard.

Ans : True.

5. Mental health means absence of mental illness.

Ans : True.

6. Mental hygiene is related with the curative aspect of mental disorder.

Ans : True.

7. Harmonious mental and physical health is an important condition of mental health.

Ans : True.

8. Mental health is a normative concept.

Ans : True.

9. Function of mental health is to preserve mental health.

Ans : True.

10. Mental hygiene aims at preservation of mental health.

Ans : True.

11. Mentally healthy person has a balance personality.

Ans : True.

12. Mental illness are curable.

Ans : True.

13. There is no influence of heredity on mentally illnesses.

Ans : True.

14. 14. A Mentally healthy person is emotionally stable. 

Ans : True. 

15. Mental hygiene is the end and mental health is the mean. 

Ans : False. 

16. A physically healthy person may not be mentally healthy. 

Ans : True. 

17. A mentally healthy person may not be socially well adjusted.

Ans : False. 

18. ‘Mental health like physical health is a matter of degree’ 

Ans : True. 

19. Mental health is a static state of mind. 

Ans : False.

20. Attainment of mental health is possible in social setup.

Ans : True.

21. Harmonious adjustment is an essential condition of mental health.

Ans : True.

22. Habits and attitudes are also determiner of mental health of a person.

Ans : True.

23. Mental health is an absolute concept.

Ans : False.

24. Acquisition of complete mental health is an ideal.

Ans : True.

25. Goal of mental hygiene and education are identical.

Ans : False

26. Mental hygiene is needed by a mentally healthy person also.

Ans : True.

(b) Fill up the gaps :

27. Mental health of an individual is determined by his adjustment in __.

Ans : Environment.

28. Mental hygeine is the __ to maintain mental health.

Ans : Systematic process.

29. Mental hygiene helps in ___ development of personality.

Ans : Mental.

30. Curing mental disease is the __function of mental hygiene.

Ans : Main.

31. Mental hygiene is the __ and mental health is the__.

Ans : Means and end.

32. Mental hygiene is the adjustment with maximum __ and minimum __.

Ans : Mental health, mental unhygeine.

33. Objective of mental hygiene is to obtain ___.

Ans : Mental health.

34. Mental hygiene has three important aspects preventive, curative and __.

Ans : Preservative.

35. ___function of mental hygiene is related with check of mental disorders.

Ans : Preventive.

36. __ function of mental hygiene is related with promotion of mental health of a person.

Ans : Curative.

(c) Give Short Answer (preferably in one sentence) :

37. Mental hygiene is a science that deals with the human welfare and pervades all fields of human relationship”. Who said this? 

Ans : Crow and Crow.

38. “Mental hygiene is concerned with the maintenance of mental health and the prevention of mental disorders” – who said this? 

Ans : Hadfield. 

39. “Mental like physical health is a matter of degree” who said this 

Ans : Professor Homal.

40. Write whether a delinquent student may be mentally healthy or not. 

Ans : False (No) 

41. ‘Mental hygiene means investigation of the law of mental health and the taken for advocacy of measures for its preservation.’ Who gave this definition? 

Ans : Draver. 

42. Write whether a delinquent student may be mentally healthy or not. 

Ans : A deliquent student may not be mentally healthy. 

43. Why mental hygiene is considered as a lifelong process? 

Ans : Mental hygiene is considered as a lifelong process because it aims to prevention of mental ill-health, preservation and cure. 

44. Which is the most significant function of mental hygiene? 

Ans : The most significant fraction of mental hygiene is preservation.

45. Mention a condition of family life which may cause mental health problem. 

Ans : Disorganisation of the family a condition of family life which may cause mental health problem. 

46. Mention one social quality of a mentally healthy person. 

Ans : Person fulfills his objectives in harmony with other peoples.

1. Write the concept of mental health. 

Ans : Mental health very simply means the state of being mentally free from illness or injury. In other sense it means illness free or injury free mental condition of an individual. It has the most important necessity for a better and balanced society. Different thinkers defined definition of mental health. 

Some of them are : In the words of Hilgard (1962), ‘mental health means absence of mental illness : more positively, a state characterized by  adjustment, a reproductive orientation and zest. To means mental illness he further explains,’ Mental illness means emotional, motivational and social maladjustments serve enough to Infer with the ordinary conduct of life.’

In the words of Kisher (1964), ‘The progress took the form of the expansion of mental hospitals, the after-case movement, the family care system, the open-door policy and the mental hygiene movements.’ It was Evnil Kraepelin who was the pioneer worker of the late nineteenth and early tweentieth centuries in classificatiin of’ mental illnesses. This was primarily leased on the course of the disease, its symtoms and cause as well.

2. Define mental hygiene. 

Ans : Psychologists have forwarded many definitions of mental hygiene. some of the definitions are as given below :

(i) In the words of Coville, ‘Mental Hygiene consists of measures to reduce the incidence of mental illness through prevention and early treatment and to promote mental health.’ 

(ii) In the words of Singh, ‘Mental Hygiene is that science that which studies laws and means of curing and preventing mental disease, personality disorders and other abnormalities for balancing adjustment and healthy development of personality.’ 

(iv) In the word of Crow and Crow, ‘Mental Hygiene is a science that deals with the human welfare and pervades all fields of human relationship.’

(v) In the words of Hadfield, ‘Mental Hygiene is concerned with the maintenance of mental health and the prevention of mental disorders.’

3. Write two purpose of mental hygiene. 

Ans : The purpose of mental hygiene are :

(a) The development of an understanding of the relationship that exist between personality development and life experiences; 

(ii) The preservation and improvement of the mental health of the individual and of the group; and 

(iii) The discovery and use of techniques through which assistance can be given to those who are mentally ill.

4. Write two important functions of mental hygiene. 

Ans : The main important functions of  mental hygiene may be discussed under the specific ways. 

They are :(a) Preventive function : The main function of mental hygiene is the prevention of mental illness, personality disorders and the problems of adjustment. Mental hygiene helps us to understand the causes of mental illness, personality disorders and the problems of adjustments of the human child. 

(b) Curator function : Curative function of mental hygiene emphasises on the treatment techniques. Mental hygiene not only helps to know the problems of mental illness, problem of personality disorder and the adjustment problem of the human individual. It also helps to know the techniques of treatment to get relief from the problems.

(c) Preservative Function : Preservation of mental health has special importance of individuals and society as well. Without sound mental health the prosperity of individual and social life both are not possible. The preservative function of mental hygiene specially helps us to know the importance of mental health and the measures, techniques, procedures that are to be followed for its preservation. This function is specially concerned with the welfare of human life and society as well.

5. ‘Mental health is a relative concept’- Give reason. 

Ans : With the term mental health there is another term; i.e. Mental Hygiene which has very close connection. In modern perspective, hygiene very simply means ‘an art of living.’ This art is very important art of keeping the body and mind health. Thus hygiene is in art of leading healthy life. Healthy life is generally means disease free physical and mental life. 

6. What is preventive function of mental health? 

Ans : The preventive function of mental health is the prevention of mental illness, personality disorder and the problems of adjustment.

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