Chapter 17 Flashcards
These efforts are targeted at the general public or a whole population group.
Universal interventions.
These efforts are aimed at a specific subgroup of the population whose risk of developing a mental health problem is thought to be significantly higher than average
Selective interventions.
Thes eefforts are directed toward high risk individuals who are identified as having minimal but detectable symptoms of mental disorder but who do not meet the criteria for clinical diagnoses.
Indicated intervention.
This research strategy involves identifying high risk individuals and providing special approaches to circumvent their problems, for example, identifying adolescents at risk for abusing alcohol or committing suicide and implementing a program to prevent the problem behaviour.
Intervention programs for high risk populations.
__________________________ for prevention begin with promoting adaptive lifestyles. Many of the gaols of health psychology can be viewed as universal prevention strategies.
Biologically based universal strategies.
The first requirement for _________________ is that aperson develops the skills needed for effective problem solving, for expressing emotions constructively, and for engaging in satisfying relationships with others.
Psychosocial health.
_________________ efforts toward universal prevenetion are focused on making the community as saef and attractive as possible for the individuals within it.
Sociocultural.
What are the two drugs most abused by adolescents?
Alchohol and tobacco.
In creating a therapeutic community, all the ongoing activities of he hospital are brought into the total treatment program, and the environment, or milieu, is a crucial aspect of the therapy. This approach is thus often referred to as _______________.
Milieu therapy.
Three general principles guide the approach to milieu therapy…. what are they?
1.. Staff expectations are clearly communicated to patient.
2. Patients are encouraged to become involved in all decisions made and all actions taken, concerning them.
3. All patients belong to social groups on the unit.
Considerable effort has been devoted to reducing the population of inpatients by closing hospitals and treating patients who have mental health disorder as out patients. This effort, which is referred to as __________________, was initiated to prevent the negative effects for many psychiatric patients.
Deinstitutionalization.
Community based treatment programs, now referred to as __________________, are live in facilities that serve as a home base for former patients as they make the transition back to adequate functioning in the community.
Aftercare programs.
People who have not committed crimes but who are judged to be potentially dangerous because of their psychological state may, after ______________ procedures, be confined in a psychaitric hospital.
Civil commitment.
Most states have stringent safeguards to ensure that any person who is the subject of a petition for commitment is grnted due provess, including right to formal hearings and the right to legal counsel at commitment hearings. This right was granted by the supreme court in the case of ______________.
Memmel vs. mundy.
