March 30 - Mental Health and Illness

Question 1

What are mental disorders?

Answer 1

Alterations in thinking mood or behaviour associated with significant distress and impaired functioning

Question 2

What is the prevalence of mental disorders?

Answer 2

20% have one
80% know someone with one
50% will experience one by 40, 65-70% by 90
one third of all disabilities
450 million people at any given time
can affect anyone

Question 3

What are the two dimensions of Mental Disorders?

Answer 3

Experience of disorder - Tangible dimension
How people perceive and treat those with mental illnesses - Social dimension

Question 4

Which group is most likely to be affected with mental health disorder

Answer 4

LGBTQ group

Question 5

What is substance abuse disorder?

Answer 5

when you rely on a drug so much that fail to meet the daily obligation of your life

Question 6

What are the rates of mental disorders between men and women?

Answer 6

Equal overall

Question 7

What are the types of mental illness men usually experience?

Answer 7

Antisocial Personality disorder
Substance abuse disorder
conduct disorder

Question 8

What are the types of mental illness women usually experience?

Answer 8

depression, anxiety

Question 9

Among which groups are mental health disorders higher?

Answer 9

lower socioeconomic groups

Question 10

What is the highest predictor of mental health disorder?

Answer 10

socioeconomic status

Question 11

What is the social causation hypothesis?

Answer 11

more life stresses and fewer resources characterize the lives of the lower class, contributing to the rise of the mental disorders

Question 12

Social selection hypothesis?

Answer 12

People with mental disorders fall into lower socioeconomic strata because of difficulties of daily functioning

Question 13

What is rate of mental disorder in individuals with regard to age?

Answer 13

higher rates in adolescents/young adults

Question 14

What are the factors affecting adolescents mental health?

Answer 14

biological, social, psychological factors

Question 15

What are the primary measures of the social control of mental illness?

Answer 15

Stigmatization
Medicalization

Question 16

What is stigmatization of mental illness?

Answer 16

negative attitudes among mental health professionals
discrimination in employment, housing, health care

Question 17

What are the negative consequences of stigmatization

Answer 17

decreases self esteem, increases feelings of demoralization, internalize label “mentally ill”, less likely so seek treatment

Question 18

What is Medicalization?

Answer 18

process in which disorders are labeled as and treated as medical issues
Stigmatization of mental illness in society => lack of funding

Question 19

What are total institutions?

Answer 19

Exercising total control over inmates
punish, brainwash, re-socialize uncooperative citizens

Question 20

What is Deinstitutionalization?

Answer 20

supportive family network
an accepting community
adequate community resources
a place to live

Question 21

When deinstitutionalization is insufficient it leads to

Answer 21

homelessness
criminality

Question 22

What is the relationship between crime and mental illness

Answer 22

disproportionate amount of inmates suffer from mental disorders
Hydraulic relationship between mental health care system and criminal justice system