Chapter 11

Question 0

A term that refers collectively to all diagnosable mental disorders

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Mental Illness

Question 1

The emotional and social well-being, including ones psychological resources for dealing with day-to-day problems of life

Answer 1

Mental Health

Question 2

Health conditions that are characterized by alternations in thinking, mood, or behavior associated with distress and/or impaired functioning

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Mental Disorders

Question 3

The complex physiological responses resulting from exposures to stressors

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General Adaption System (GAS)

Question 4

An alarm reaction that prepares one physiologically for sudden action

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Fight or Flight Reaction

Question 5

The assumption that environmental changes could affect an individual’s mind and thus alter the behavior

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Moral Treatment

Question 6

Use of electric current to induce a coma or convulsions

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Electroconvulsive (ECT)

Question 7

Surgical severance of nerve fibers of the brain

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Lobotomy

Question 8

The process of discharging, on a large scale, patients from state mental hospitals to less restrictive community settings

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Deinstitutionalization

Question 9

Treatment Goals for Mental Disorders

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• to reduce symptoms
• improve personal and social functioning
• to develop and strengthen coping skills
• to promote behaviors that make a persons life better

Question 10

3 Basic Approaches to Treating Mental Disorders

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• psychotherapy
• psychopharmacology
• psychiatric rehabilitation

Question 11

Examples of Self-Help Groups

Answer 11

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Recovery Inc., Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

Question 12

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.

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Cultural competency

Question 13

An affective disorder characterized by a dysphoric mood, usually depression, or lose of interest or pleasure in almost all usual activities or pastimes.

Answer 13

Major Depression

Question 14

Diseases that result from chronic exposure to excess levels of stressors, which produce a General Adaptation Syndrome response

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Diseases of Adaptations

Question 15

The nation’s leading mental health research agency, housed in the National Institutes of Health

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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Question 16

The first and most famous antipsychotic drug, introduced in 1954 under the brand name Thorazine

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Chlorpromazine (Thorazine)

Question 17

Drugs that reduce nervous activity; another term for antipsychotic drugs

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Neuroleptic drugs

Question 18

A drug that subdues a mental patient’s behavior

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Chemical Straightjacket

Question 19

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)

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Tardive Dyskinesia

Question 20

A law that made the federal government responsible for assisting in the funding of mental health facilities and services.

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Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers (CMHC) Act

Question 21

A fully staffed center originally funded by the federal government that provides comprehensive mental health services to local populations

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Community Mental Health Center (CMHC)

Question 22

Transferring patients from one type of public institution to another, usually as a results of policy change

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Transinstitutionalization

Question 23

An effective disorder characterized by distinct periods of elevated mood alternating with periods of depression

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Bipolar Disorder

Question 24

A treatment that involves verbal communication between the patients and a trained clinician

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Psychotherapy

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Treatment based on learning new thought pattern and adaptive skills, with regular practice between therapy sessions.

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

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Treatment for mental illness that involves medications

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Psychopharmacological Therapy

Question 27

Outcomes ought by most people with mental illnesses; includes increased independence, effective coping, supportive relationships, community participation, and something gainful employment

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Recovery

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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

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation

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Ways do delivering services to people using scientific evidence that shoes that the services actually work

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Evidenced-Based Practices

Question 30

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)

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Self-Help Groups

Question 31

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

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National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Question 32

The manages care term for mental health and substance abuse/dependence care services

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Behavioral Health Care Services

Question 33

The concept of equality in health care coverage for people with mental illness and those with other medical illnesses or injuries

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Parity