NURS 307 Flashcards
Humane Treatment
A moral, compassionate, and pleasant environment.
Dorothea Dix
Was responsible for mental health care system reform in the US, Canada, and Great Britain
What is the most integral component of moral treatment?
Humane Treatment
Which theory of mental illness proposed that mental disorders resulted from environmental and social deprivation?
Psychosocial
True or False: Deinstitutionalization was a theory of mental health supported by the biologic and psychosocial schools of thought.
False - deinstitutionalization was the practice of reducing inpatient care.
Mental Health
Integral to general health and can be possessed even in the presence of mental illness.
Mental Disorder
Medical term for mental illness and refers to a diagnosable health condition based on: mood and affect, behaviour, thinking and cognition.
Stigma
Negative, unfavourable attitudes and the behaviour they produce - prejudice that spreads fear and misinformation.
Recovery
NOT a cure - finding personal autonomy and engagement in active life. Understanding one’s abilities and disabilities
Exclusion
Major health problem, creates categories of “difference” with people seen as inferior and inadequate labelled with “Other”.
Identity
The characteristics, attributes, beliefs, assumptions, and expressions that define an individual or group.
Social Exclusion
Lack of or denial of resources, rights, and goods, and inability to participate in the normal relationships and activities available to the majority of society.
Intersectionality
A framework that reveals the way in which social categories applied to an individual or group interconnect, creating systems of discrimination or privilege.
Medicalization
The process by which human issues are described using medical language, understood through the adoption of a medical framework, or treated with a medical intervention
Psychiatrization
The process by which human issues that are behavioural or emotional in nature, resulting in a mental illness diagnosis
