Community Flashcards
What is the primary difference between community psychology and more traditional psychological approaches?
Community psychology advocates for a conceptual shift away from individual factors of mental health to more environmental ones
Through what Act did the federal government provide funding and guidelines for community mental health centers, which is now estimated to provide approximately 23% of all mental health treatment in the country at its centers?
Community
Mental
Health Act
________ prevention attempts to avoid the
development of illness before it has a chance to
occur; ________ prevention attempts to detect
illness early on, thereby increasing opportunities
for intervention and preventing progression of the
illness; and ________ prevention attempts to
prevent the recurrence of an illness (after onset)
and reduce its long-term duration and
consequences (after treatment).
Primary;
secondary;
tertiary
What percentage of people who unsuccessfully attempt suicide eventually go on to complete suicide?
10%
What are the risk factors for suicide in terms of age, race, sex, and marital status?
More suicides are completed by: people over age 65, with highest rates for people over 85; whites; males (females unsuccessfully attempt more); single and especially divorced individuals
In terms of mental health, people possessing what diagnoses are at the highest risk of suicide?
Depressive disorder, substance use disorders, and schizophrenia
This is viewed as the single most central psychological factor in suicide.
Hopelessness
Suicide is the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ leading cause of death for adolescents, with the most common method being \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
Third; use of a gun
What are the 3 most consistent predictors of adolescent suicide?
Diagnosis of depression, use of drugs and alcohol, and antisocial behavior
A voluntary relationship between a professional helper and an individual or group that can be terminated at any time is referred to as \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, while \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is provided continuously by a person of authority and is focused on general work-related activities of the supervisee.
Consultation;
supervision
Of the 4 types of mental health consultation
discussed by Caplan, ________ involves helping
the consultee develop plans to work more
effectively with a client; ________ focuses more
on the consultee’s issues (e.g.
countertransference, lacking skill) than the
client’s; ________involves working with
administrator’s to assist in program development,
expansion, or modification; and ________
focuses problems that limit the consultee’s
administrative effectiveness.
Client-centered case consultation; consultee-centered case consultation; program-centered administrative consultation; consultee-centered administrative consultation
Typically the focus of consultee-centered case consultation in organizations, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ occurs when an unresolved conflict affects the consultee's perception or handling of a work-related problem.
Theme
interference
(Caplan)
What type of consultation focuses on changing consultees or clients through the use of techniques such as shaping, modeling, direct instruction, and homework assignments?
Behavioral (or
educational)
consultation
One assumption of this type of consultation is that increased satisfaction among an organization's members will improve the whole organization, hence the focus on improving interpersonal skills and bettering the relationships between individuals and subsystems.
Systems (or
process)
consultation
A consultant whose activities serve to further the goals of a disenfranchised group (e.g., minority groups) by focusing on institutional (e.g., political) change rather than changing the consultee's organization is performing what type of consultation?
Advocacy
consultation
