Introduction and Etiology

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

T

Question 2

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?

Answer 2

T

Question 3

What are the big mental health providers?

Answer 3

Psychiatry
Psychology
Social work
Mental health counseling/substance abuse counseling

Question 4

How do psychiatry and psychology consider mental health?

Answer 4

Personal way- core issues lie inside a person and are usually more pathologized (stem from something) and something needs to be fixed.

Question 5

We come from a profession where the larger view tends to be that mental health conditions are usually the result of

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

The media influences how we see mental health. True or false?

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What do we use to look at different symptoms?

Answer 7

DSM-5

Question 8

What else is the DSM-5 known as?

Answer 8

Psych bible or mental health bible

Question 9

T or f? Insanity and idiocy are stigmatizing words?

Answer 9

T

Question 10

Idiocy used to be a word to describe cognitive difficulties in the past. T or f?

Answer 10

T

Question 11

T or f? Melancholia corresponds closely to the modern definition of depression.

Answer 11

T

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

T

Question 13

What is the word used in the past for extra alcohol consumption?

Answer 13

Dipsomania

Question 14

What is a mental illness?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What is one-way mental illness is defined?

Answer 15

Culturally

Question 16

What are some examples of how mental illness is culturally defined?

Answer 16

Homosexuality, hysteria, and religious experience

Question 17

The Nami definition of mental illness believes mental illness is a medical condition. True or false?

Answer 17

True

Question 18

APA viewpoint of mental illness is psychological disturbances happening inside an individual. True or false?

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Who made an attempt to understand how common are mental health conditions?

Answer 19

Dr. Yarvis

Question 20

T or f? 1 in 4 American adults experience a mental health disorder per year.

Answer 20

T

Question 21

What percentage of Americans live with a serious (highly impairing) mental health condition at any given time?

Answer 21

6 percent

Question 22

What are examples of serious mental health conditions?

Answer 22

Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

May include OCD and PTSD

Question 23

T or f? Serious mental illnesses can include OCD and PTSD?

Answer 23

T

Question 24

T or f? We can’t diagnose a personality disorder (PD) prior to the age of 18.

Answer 24

T

Question 25

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.

Answer 25

T

Question 26

By 2020, what illness will be the leading cause of disability in the world for women and children?

Answer 26

Major depressive disorder

Question 27

Approximately how many American adults ages 18 and older a year have a given anxiety disorder?

Answer 27

40 million American adults between the ages of 18 (18%)

Question 28

How many percent of American adults have a mood disorder?

Answer 28

10 percent

Question 29

What are two of the most common diagnoses in the U.S?

Answer 29

mood and anxiety disorders

Question 30

T or f? The U.S. has a higher suicide rate than other countries.

Answer 30

T

Question 31

Approximately how many people in the U.S. die by suicide each year?

Answer 31

40,000

Question 32

What may be one cause of the increasing number of deaths due to suicide?

Answer 32

The availability of guns

Question 33

What percentage of American adults have schizophrenia?

Answer 33

1 percent (which is relative to 2.4 million people) and makes up part of that 6 percent of severe mental health illnesses

Question 34

Approximately how many percent of kids between 3 and 17 have an ADHD diagnosis?

Answer 34

5.2 million

Question 35

ADHD affects how many percent of adults?

Answer 35

4

Question 36

What illness may go undiagnosed as adults but is starting to receive more attention?

Answer 36

ADHD

Question 37

A current significant concern in child mental health, how prevalent is autism?

Answer 37

1 percent

Question 38

About how many percent of Americans age 12 or older have some kind of past-month substance abuse issue?

Answer 38

9