Psychological Disorders and Society

Question 1

Deinstitutionalization

Answer 1

the attempt to move the primary locus of treatment from mental hospitals to the community

Question 2

What do community mental health centres provide?

Answer 2

• Designed to provide comprehensive services to their local communities
• Provide outpatient psychotherapy and counselling so that clients can remain in their normal social and work environments
• Provide education and training

Question 3

What is the revolving door phenomenon?

Answer 3

That nearly three quarters of all hospital admissions involve formerly hospitalized patients
•While in the hospital, they respond well to antipsychotic medication and are soon released back into a community that cannot offer them the care they require

Question 4

What can make a person vulnerable to psychological disorders?

Answer 4

Situational factors and personal factors

Question 5

Situation-focused intervention

Answer 5

prevention efforts that focus on altering environmental conditions that are known to promote the development of psychological disorders

Question 6

What does George Albee suggest situation-focused intervention must focus on?

Answer 6

Efforts to reduce the stresses of 
  •Unemployment 
  •Economic exploitation 
  • Discrimination 
   •Poverty

Question 7

Competency- Focused Prevention

Answer 7

prevention programs that are designed to enhance the personal resources needed to cope with situations that might otherwise cause psychological disorders

Question 8

What do competency- focused prevention focus on?

Answer 8

• Strengthening resistance to stress
• Improving social and vocational competences
• enhancing self esteem
• Helping people to gain the skills needed to build stronger social support systems

Question 9

Battlemind

Answer 9

A intervention program for PTSD developed by the US army that involves a debriefing phase and an emphasis on adapting the combat skills they learned to a home environment