Mental Health Questions

Question 1

One non-biological treatment?

Answer 1

Flooding (anxiety disorder)

• New associations
• Body can only reach a certain level of arousal before it has to calm down
• Participant is then much calmer in feared situation
• new associations formed
• Heights - High place, e.g. high apartment

Question 2

Strength and Weakness of flooding?

Answer 2

+ Cost effective, quicker, option for everyone

- Highly traumatic - many don’t finish treatment - Waste of time and money

Question 3

Szasz - No such thing as mental illness?

Answer 3

• Mental health is a metaphor
• Just judgement of some people about the disturbing or socially unacceptable behaviour
• some has psychical cause but is actually undiagnosed physical illness

Question 4

Evaluate no such thing as mental illness?

Answer 4

+ social unacceptable behaviour changes over time - homosexuality in history, treated with electric shock therapy
- Makes treatment difficult

Question 5

How Rosenhan contributes to an understanding of individual, social and cultural diversity?

Answer 5

• Real patients knew they were actually sane - individual diversity
• Study 3 - Students had different response than mentally ill - Social diversity
• cultural diversity -

Question 6

To what extent are explanations of mental illness deterministic?

Answer 6

• medical model - certain physical attributes means you must be mentally ill
• Szasz is less deterministic -