Chapter 11 Flashcards
A term that refers collectively to all diagnosable mental disorders
Mental Illness
The emotional and social well-being, including ones psychological resources for dealing with day-to-day problems of life
Mental Health
Health conditions that are characterized by alternations in thinking, mood, or behavior associated with distress and/or impaired functioning
Mental Disorders
The complex physiological responses resulting from exposures to stressors
General Adaption System (GAS)
An alarm reaction that prepares one physiologically for sudden action
Fight or Flight Reaction
The assumption that environmental changes could affect an individual’s mind and thus alter the behavior
Moral Treatment
Use of electric current to induce a coma or convulsions
Electroconvulsive (ECT)
Surgical severance of nerve fibers of the brain
Lobotomy
The process of discharging, on a large scale, patients from state mental hospitals to less restrictive community settings
Deinstitutionalization
Treatment Goals for Mental Disorders
- to reduce symptoms
- improve personal and social functioning
- to develop and strengthen coping skills
- to promote behaviors that make a persons life better
3 Basic Approaches to Treating Mental Disorders
- psychotherapy
- psychopharmacology
- psychiatric rehabilitation
Examples of Self-Help Groups
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Recovery Inc., Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Service provider’s degree of compatibility with the specific culture of the population served, for example, proficiency in language other than English, familiarity with cultural idioms of distress or body language, folk beliefs, and expectations regarding treatment procedures (such as medication or psychotherapy) and likely outcomes.
Cultural competency
An affective disorder characterized by a dysphoric mood, usually depression, or lose of interest or pleasure in almost all usual activities or pastimes.
Major Depression
Diseases that result from chronic exposure to excess levels of stressors, which produce a General Adaptation Syndrome response
Diseases of Adaptations
The nation’s leading mental health research agency, housed in the National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
The first and most famous antipsychotic drug, introduced in 1954 under the brand name Thorazine
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine)
Drugs that reduce nervous activity; another term for antipsychotic drugs
Neuroleptic drugs
A drug that subdues a mental patient’s behavior
Chemical Straightjacket
Irreversible condition of involuntary and abnormal movement of tongue, mouth, arms, and legs, which can result from long-term use of certain antipsychotic drugs (such as chlorpromazine)
Tardive Dyskinesia
A law that made the federal government responsible for assisting in the funding of mental health facilities and services.
Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers (CMHC) Act
A fully staffed center originally funded by the federal government that provides comprehensive mental health services to local populations
Community Mental Health Center (CMHC)
Transferring patients from one type of public institution to another, usually as a results of policy change
Transinstitutionalization
An effective disorder characterized by distinct periods of elevated mood alternating with periods of depression
Bipolar Disorder
A treatment that involves verbal communication between the patients and a trained clinician
Psychotherapy
Treatment based on learning new thought pattern and adaptive skills, with regular practice between therapy sessions.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Treatment for mental illness that involves medications
Psychopharmacological Therapy
Outcomes ought by most people with mental illnesses; includes increased independence, effective coping, supportive relationships, community participation, and something gainful employment
Recovery
Intensive, individualized services encompassing treatment, rehabilitation, and support delivered by a team of providers over an indefinite period to individuals with severe mental disorders to help them maintain stable lives in the community
Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Ways do delivering services to people using scientific evidence that shoes that the services actually work
Evidenced-Based Practices
Groups of concerned members of the community who are unites by a shared interest, concern, or deficit not shared by other members of the community (Alcoholics Anonymous, for example)
Self-Help Groups
A national self-help group that supports the belief that major mental disorders are brain diseases that are of genetic origin and biological in nature and are diagnosable and treatable with medications
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
The manages care term for mental health and substance abuse/dependence care services
Behavioral Health Care Services
The concept of equality in health care coverage for people with mental illness and those with other medical illnesses or injuries
Parity