Guide To Mental Health Flashcards
In 1900’s individual with mental health were described as
Lunatics and believed insanity was caused by a full moon
Phillips pinnel
Pineal strict, nonviolent non-medical management style became known as “moral treatment”
Trephination
Removal of small part of skull with saw
Bloodletting and purging where thought of as
Help heal unbalances in body
Lobotomy
Designed to disrupt circuits in brain-surgical cutting or removing the connections between prefrontal cortex and frontal lobes of brain
Mental health professional are now focusing in
Mental wellness
The combination of treatment used today
Psychotherapy, biomedical treatment
The year the mental health commission of Canada released the country’s first national mental health strategy and its entitled
2012
Changing direction, changing lives
Mental health act
Ontario law which regulates the administration of mental health care
Form 1
Authorizes the holding of a person for up to 72 hours at psychiatric facility
Form 2
Authorizes the detention of a person just long enough for a doctor to make an initial examination
Causes of mental health disorders
Biological factors
Childhood experiences
Social and cultural factors
Stressful life events
Poor physical health or disability
Four types of therapy
Psychoanalysis
Behaviour therapy
Group therapy
Family therapy
Stigma is
The negative stereotype and discrimination is the behaviour that results from this negative stereotype