Mental Health

Question 1

Mental Health

Answer 1

Characterized by balance, flexibility, reaching one’s goals, resilience, fulfillment

Question 2

Mental Illness

Answer 2

1) Refers to all mental disorders
2) Changes in thinking, mood, or behavior associated with dysfunction
3) Impact of stigma
4) Great societal/economic burden

Question 3

Ancient views of mental illness

Answer 3

1) Affected person is possessed by a demon or by displeased gods
2) Shunned by society
3) Greek medical writers prescribed treatments
4) Family members responsible for care

Question 4

Middle Ages and mental illness

Answer 4

1) Europe, mentally ill mostly allowed freedom as long as they are not dangerous
2) Treated badly in some places
3) Religious orders care for mentally ill
4) Muslim Arabs established asylums in 8th century to attempt study
5) First european facility established for people with mental illness in spain in 1407

Question 5

Mental health 1600s

Answer 5

1) Europeans begin to isolate mentally ill, putting them with vagrants and delinquents
2) Persons seen as insane begin to be treated inhumanely, chained to walls or kept inside dungeons

Question 6

Mental health 1700s

Answer 6

1) Concern about treatment of mentally ill leads to occasional reforms
2) Philippe Pinel takes over the Bicetre insane asylum and removes patients form dungeons

Question 7

1840s

Answer 7

1) Dorothea Dix discovers that mentally ill people in Massachusetts are jailed
2) Crusaded to establish 32 state hospitals and asylums

Question 8

1883

Answer 8

-German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin develops distinctions among mental disorders, particularly between maniac depressive psychosis and schizophrenia

Question 9

Early 1900s

Answer 9

• Era of psychoanalysis- the talking cure

- Freud treated wide variety of patients but most people with psychosis

Question 10

1930s

Answer 10

-Drugs, electro convulsive therapy, insulin induced comas, and surgery (lobotomy) used to treat people with schizophrenia

Question 11

1940s

Answer 11

1) In 1946 President Truman signed the National Mental Health Act which established the National Institute of Mental Health
2) 1949 Australian psychiarist introduces use of lithium to treat psychosis. Useful for treating bi-polar disorder

Question 12

Mid 1960s

Answer 12

1) Deinstitutionalization: Number of people drops from 560,000 to 130000 by 1980
2) Deinstitutionalization possible because anti psychotic drugs control symptoms however long term institutionalized people need ongoing mental health treatment

Question 13

1979

Answer 13

National alliance for the Mentally Ill founded-provides support, advocacy, research for people with psychiatric illness