Exam 1 Flashcards
What is mental health?
Mental health is a state of emotional, psychological and social wellness evidenced by satisfying relationships, effective behaviors and coping, positive self-concep and emotional stability. Although, no single, universal definition exists.
What are the three factors influencing mental health?
Individual, interpersonal and social/cultural
What is mental illness?
It is a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with apparent distress or disability or with a significantly increased risk of suffering, death, pain, disability or an important loss of freedom.
What are the three categories of mental illness and cite one example for each.
Mood: Depressed
Behavior: Pacing
Thinking: racing thoughts
What factors on the individual level contribute to mental illness?
Biological makeup, intolerable or unrealistic worries or fears
What factors on the Interpersonal level contribute to mental illness?
Ineffective communication, inadequate social support
What factors on the social/cultural level contribute to mental illness?
Unwarranted negative view of the world, discrimination (stigma, racism, classism… etc.)
What the DSM-V?
It is the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental disorders.
What are the purposes of the DSM-V?
To standardize nomenclature and language, present defining characteristic or symptoms and to assist in identifying causes of disorders.
What is the DSM classification?
Major psychiatric disorders, medical conditions and psychosocial and environmental problems
What and when is the period of enlightenment?
In the 1790s, it is the creation of asylums and moral treatments. Those were created by Dorothea Dix.
Freud also developed his scientific study at this time.
What is psychopharmacology?
It was developed in the 1950s. It is the development of psychotropic drugs.
What is the community mental health movement?
Deinstitulization, legislation for disability income and changes in commitments laws.
How expensive is Mental Illness in the 21st century?
It costs more than all type of cancers.
What is the revolving door effect?
