You will prepare and submit a term paper on Mental Health in Modern Psychology. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length. Media has portrayed mental health as a crucial concern in modern psychology. Normally criminal behavior and violent a=ones are associated with mental problems in news around the world. Normally, the nexus is simple discrimination and stigmatization of a given group that the society tends to discriminate against. people having psychiatric disorders. This paper looked at the mechanism that the mass media employs the psychiatric psychology in depicting and explaining the violent events. The terminologies normally differentiated from many professional words like the mad, psycho to words that are disrespectful such as the deranged, nuts, and twisted. As unpredictable or unstable are aimed normally used to describe people having psychiatric behaviors, they mean diminished responsibility which is regarded by the authors to explain the socially unacceptable behaviors. The reason why the trend is worrying is tabloids appealing to psychiatric languages helping to perpetuate the society’s negative behaviors towards people having a mental illness. The expectation of the society to the people having psychiatric disorders is the idea of exhibiting the untrustworthy, erratic, unreliable, unsociable, dangerous, unpredictable, transient, unemployed, observed by authors as themes that reoccur in the newspapers. Lauber conducted research analyzing the capacity of people to recognize mental problems. The hypothesis behind the study was a positive correlation between the ability of the people in recognizing the mental illness and the positive notion towards the affected individuals. However, the outcome was a negative correlation implying that people are good at recognizing the mental illness. they are in a position to support the ideas&nbsp.of segregating the people from society. Taking into consideration the individual negative perception with the mental problems will continue to persist, despite the information available on the media’s information on mental health.

Read pages 421 – 442Our textbook mentions the relationship between stress and health and the importance of learning positive measures to ensure our physical and mental well-being. The authors explain “a stressor is a condition or event that challenges or threatens a person” (Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019, p. 425). We also read that, “Burnout occurs when workers are physically, mentally, and emotionally drained” (Leiter, Gascon, & Martinez-Jarreta, 2010 as cited in Coon, Mitterer, & Martini, 2019, p. 423). This highlights the importance of knowing good coping skills and setting boundaries for ourselves where our obligations are concerned. Take the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRSS) on page 424.Reference:Coon, D., Mitterer, J.O., & Martini, T. (2019). Introduction to psychology: Gateways to mind and behavior (15th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.For this week’s main post, answer the following questions. Be sure to include factual, properly cited information in your post.What did you learn about yourself? What stressors and or “hassles” do you recognize in your life? What measures can you take in order to lower your stress and optimize your health and well being? How will this enable you to become a more productive student? Do you see a mind, body, soul connection?**You might also enjoy visiting:http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/self-help-toolsor here:http://marc.ucla.edu/for more information and self-help.REQUIREMENTS:Your initial post (your response to the topic) must contain a citation.  It is your ideas supported by research. Please refer to the APA Power Point in the Start Here section of the classroom for information on proper formatting. There will be a deduction of 20 points for failure to cite a source within your initial post and to provide a reference at the end of your initial post.Your initial post must be a minimum of 200 words and each response must be a minimum of 150 words. Please double-check your word count. Only posts that meet the word count requirements receive credit.Post your word count at the end of each post. There will be a 5 point deduction for each failure to provide a word count.