Introduction and Etiology Flashcards
T or f? If we looked at mental health 40 or 50 years ago, there may have been more of an influence on personal history of trauma and stress.
T
These types of influences may affect how we understand mental health and the same influences on friends and peers and the influences of the profession itself. T or f?
T
What are the big mental health providers?
Psychiatry
Psychology
Social work
Mental health counseling/substance abuse counseling
How do psychiatry and psychology consider mental health?
Personal way- core issues lie inside a person and are usually more pathologized (stem from something) and something needs to be fixed.
We come from a profession where the larger view tends to be that mental health conditions are usually the result of
The interaction between the person and environment and the problem may not lie within the person but in the difficulty in fitting between them and the world.
The media influences how we see mental health. True or false?
True
What do we use to look at different symptoms?
DSM-5
What else is the DSM-5 known as?
Psych bible or mental health bible
T or f? Insanity and idiocy are stigmatizing words?
T
Idiocy used to be a word to describe cognitive difficulties in the past. T or f?
T
T or f? Melancholia corresponds closely to the modern definition of depression.
T
T or f? Monomania was really used to define obsessive thinking similar to what we see in obsessive-compulsive disorder, but latching onto ideas as we see in delusional thought in schizophrenia.
T
What is the word used in the past for extra alcohol consumption?
Dipsomania
What is a mental illness?
A conglomeration of signs, symptoms, and issues affecting a person’s behavior, thinking, and when normal coping skills fail or are insufficient to meet the person’s needs, results in stress, and impairs daily functioning
What is one-way mental illness is defined?
Culturally
What are some examples of how mental illness is culturally defined?
Homosexuality, hysteria, and religious experience
The Nami definition of mental illness believes mental illness is a medical condition. True or false?
True
APA viewpoint of mental illness is psychological disturbances happening inside an individual. True or false?
True
Who made an attempt to understand how common are mental health conditions?
Dr. Yarvis
T or f? 1 in 4 American adults experience a mental health disorder per year.
T
What percentage of Americans live with a serious (highly impairing) mental health condition at any given time?
6 percent
What are examples of serious mental health conditions?
Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
May include OCD and PTSD
T or f? Serious mental illnesses can include OCD and PTSD?
T
T or f? We can’t diagnose a personality disorder (PD) prior to the age of 18.
T
Tor f? The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 4 of the 10 leading causes of disability in the US and other world countries are mental health conditions.
T
By 2020, what illness will be the leading cause of disability in the world for women and children?
Major depressive disorder
Approximately how many American adults ages 18 and older a year have a given anxiety disorder?
40 million American adults between the ages of 18 (18%)
How many percent of American adults have a mood disorder?
10 percent
What are two of the most common diagnoses in the U.S?
mood and anxiety disorders
T or f? The U.S. has a higher suicide rate than other countries.
T
Approximately how many people in the U.S. die by suicide each year?
40,000
What may be one cause of the increasing number of deaths due to suicide?
The availability of guns
What percentage of American adults have schizophrenia?
1 percent (which is relative to 2.4 million people) and makes up part of that 6 percent of severe mental health illnesses
Approximately how many percent of kids between 3 and 17 have an ADHD diagnosis?
5.2 million
ADHD affects how many percent of adults?
4
What illness may go undiagnosed as adults but is starting to receive more attention?
ADHD
A current significant concern in child mental health, how prevalent is autism?
1 percent
About how many percent of Americans age 12 or older have some kind of past-month substance abuse issue?
9
