Chapter 7- Mental Disorders

Question 1

Mental Disorder

Answer 1

a psychological, biological, or behavioural dysfunction that interferes with daily life, ‘alterations in thinking, mood, or behaviour…associated with significant distress and impaired functioning’

Question 2

Self Stigma

Answer 2

individuals internalize the label of mentally ill as well as its evaluative components, becoming less likely to conform to treatment regimens or even to seek treatment.

Question 3

Discrimination Paradigm

Answer 3

the experience of mental illness is primarily one of prejudice, discrimination, and stigmatization.

Question 4

Disease Paradigm

Answer 4

the experience of mental illness is primarily one of experiencing illness, the signs and symptoms of the disorder, which subsequently hinder the individuals effective functioning and quality of life

Question 5

Deinstitutionalization

Answer 5

the social control of mental illness in community based programs rather than in institutions

Question 6

history of social control of mental illlness

Answer 6

Demonic Possession-treated with physical torture
Witches or Heretics-alligned with the devil, put to death
Madhouses-18th century, only to warehouse them not treat them
Asylums- tried to treat them
Now known as mental hospitals or psychiatric institutions
Led to deinstitutionalization

Question 7

Least Restrictive Alternative

Answer 7

involuntary admission can occur only if there are no reasonable non-institutional alternatives

Question 8

Relationship between mental health care system and criminal justice system

Answer 8

hydraulic, one expands the other contracts