Evolution of Mental Health Flashcards
Unconventional therapies
Complimentary therapies
Spectrum of practices and beliefs. Use of herbs, visual imagery, acupunctures, and massage therapy
Complimentary therapies
Proclamation by the state explaining mental illness as a disease
Decade of the brain
Emphasizes significance of technological advances in neurobiology & genetics and its impact on understanding mental illness
Decade of the brain
Caring for previously hospitalized people outside the hospital
Deinstitutionalization
In the community rather than state facility
Deinstitutionalization
Began 25 yrs ago - Focuses on human treatment of the mentally ill
Mental health movement
Advocates the release of pt from state institutions to community mental health centers
Mental health movement
Humane treatment of the mentally ill
Moral treatment
Used to affect behavior, mood, & feelings
Psychotropics
Example of psychotropics
Antidepressants, antipsychotics, antimanic, antianxiety drugs
Biology of the nervous system (brain)
Neurobiology
Science and study of the CNS
Neuroscience
Insanity was associated with demonic possession.
Early history (ancient times)
Healers extract unseen spirits through rituals using herbs, ointments and precious stones.
Early history (ancient times)
Mental illness was perceived as incurable, and treatment of the insane was sometimes inhumane and brutal
Early history (ancient times)
Often imprisoned or forced to live in streets and beg for food.
Mentally ill people in the Middle ages
For more humane treatment, depends on charity of religious groups, who dispenses alms or food or other donations to the needy or poor and ran almshouses and general hospitals.
Mentally ill people in the middle ages
First mental asylum (middle ages)
St. Mary of Bethlehem
When & where was st. Mary of B built
London, England. 14 century
Conceived as a sanctuary or refuge for the destitute and afflicted. Model for similar institutions elsewhere.
St. Mary of Bethlehem
Continued skepticism about the curability of mental illness.
The 15th-17th Centuries
repositories for prolonged enclosure of the mentally ill.
Asylum in 15th to 17th centuries
Insane people were treated more like animals than humans.
The 15th-17th centuries
Inhabitants were poorly clothed and fed; often chained and caged, and deprived of heat and sunlight
The 15th-17th centuries
The insane was no longer treated as less than human.
The 18th Century- Period of Enlightenment
The concept of asylum developed from the humane efforts of PINEL & TUKE
The 18th Century- Period of Enlightenment
Significant people in the 18th century
Benjamin Rush
Philippe Pinel
William Tuke
Franz Anton Mesmer
Emphasized the need for pleasant surroundings and diversional and moral treatment of the mentally ill.
Benjamin Rush (1745-1813)
Treatment include (considered controversial): bloodletting and the administration of cold and hot baths, harsh purgatives, and emetics.
Benjamin Rush (1745-1813)
Considers inducement of fright or shock would cause the mentally ill to regain their insanity.
Benjamin Rush (1745-1813)
the mentally ill’s extremities is strapped down and this reduces motor and pulse rates; thought to produce calming effect
Tranquilizer chair