Mental Health Services Flashcards
Consumer Movement
The 1980’s and 1990’s gave rise to the consumer movement where consumers created advocacy groups for better care. National Alliance on Mental Illness, to reduce stigma and educate
Psychotropic Drugs
Antipsychotics, chemicals used to treat mental disorders, the community mental health centers act was passed in 1963. Encouraged deinstitutionalization of people with mental illness.
Recovery
Describes the hopes for the future when consumers seek to meet their personal goals and educate the community
Stigma
Viewed as the largest obstacle to improving lives of people recovering from mental illness, that want to live normal lives.
Mental Health Parity Act
Prohibits insurers from imposing lifetime and annual benefit limit on mental health services that are not imposed on physical health care.
Community Mental Health
Attempted to serve diverse groups, developed in low income populations in the 1960’s and 1970’s
Educational Equity
Because education has been funded through property there has been disparity between classes
Least Restrictive Environment
School Social Workers and the interventions utilized to assist children within special education services should be in regular classes if possible, offer home instruction, or instruction in hospitals.
Mental Hygiene Movement
In the 1940’s Dorothea Lynde Dix, a retired teacher began a crusade and became the founder of the mental health care movement. She called attention to the poor conditions, overcrowding, and abuse within institutions at the federal and state level.
Moral Treatment
The belief that people with mental illness were lunatics and their problems sprung from violation of moral law
Legal Advocacy Movement
In the 1970’s this provoked a series of cases that ensured the rights of people with mental illness, ensuring their right to self determination and prohibited involuntary confinement.
Criminalization model
belief that people with mental illness are more violent is not borne out of research
Treatment Model
Empiracally based practice interventions used in mental health
- family therapy
- psychiatric rehab
- cognitive therapy
- assertive community treatment
Rehabilitation vs punishment
things and stuff
Drug misuse
the inappropriate use of medication or prescribed drugs
Substance abuse
The continued use of alcohol or other drugs in spite of adverse consequences
Chemical Dependency
Addiction to alcohol and or other drugs in contrast to non chemical addictions like gambling
Three types of drugs
Stimulants-hallucinogens-depressants
Stimulants
Meth— Increase alertness, wakefulness, and energy, psychostimulants or amphetamines = speed and meth
Hallucinogens
LSD— Distort visual and sensory perception.
psychoactive drugs or mood altering are hallucinogenic by working through the nervous system
Depressants
Alcohol–Disinhibition, reduce anxiety depress cns
African Americans and the double stigma
class/drug arrest 6x as likely to serve a long sentence
Treatment vs Criminalization: The war on drugs
The war on drugs reduces supply while imposing stiff penalties for offenses
- supply side approach
- treatment and prevention address the demand side
Person in environment
requires sw to consider the person and the sociological theories of the crimes
