Quiz 1: Behavorial Health

Question 1

What is behavioral health

Answer 1

=psychopathology

study of abnormal cognition, behaviour and experiences

Question 2

Why is behavioral health important to OTs

Answer 2

to understand behavioral and psychological factors that may be causing dysfunction in clients life

Question 3

What is mental illness

Answer 3

mental illness is behavior and symptoms, which are outside of what is normal in a society, that cause distress and negatively affect functioning

Question 4

Why is cultural context important in mental health assessment and treatment?

Answer 4

different cultures practice different rituals, so in some cultures some behaviors may seem abnormal, but are actually normal in that culture

Question 5

What are important considerations when/ meeting a client/considering the whole person?

Answer 5

Consider their occupations and roles in life
-Person’s name/ how they want to be called
-Speaking differences: rate, volume, speed, who speaks first
-body language/ eye contact/ proxemics

Question 6

When determining if someone has a mental illness ask…

Answer 6

Does it negatively affect their functioning?
Is it causing distress?
Is it normal in society?

Question 7

What are some examples of People First Language?

Answer 7

“a schizophrenic” vs “a person with schizophrenia”
“a manic-depressive” vs “a person with bipolar illness”

Question 8

What is NAMI

Answer 8

NAMI= national alliance on Mental Illness
-self-help organization that provides support, public education, research, and advocacy for persons with mental illness

Question 9

What is SAMSHA

Answer 9

SAMSHA= Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
-federal agency that funds treatment programs and research for persons with all kinds of mental illness

Question 10

What are some reasons for giving a diagnosis of mental illness?

Answer 10

-create scientific basis for understanding health
-reimbursement purposes (insurance coverage) ,provide a coding system for payment
-establish a common language
-develop more effective and valid treatments
-target specific behaviors and disorders for research purposes

Question 11

What are 3 common theories of causes of mental illness?

Answer 11

1. Biological/Medical
   -chemicals in the brain/ neurotransmitters
   -genetics
   -prenatal influences
   -infections/inflammation
2. Psychological
   -severe trauma/abuse (interpersonal)
   -traumatic events (situational)
   -neglect
   3.Environmental
   -poverty
   societal expectations
   -environmental toxins

Question 12

What is DSM and why was it developed?

Answer 12

American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
-manual used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders

Question 13

Signs

Answer 13

are objective, observable, and measurable
ex: a fever or observing someone hearing voices

Question 14

Symtpoms

Answer 14

are subjective, felt, experiences
ex: pain or fear

Question 15

Ego-syntonic

Answer 15

person considers their behavior to be normal; it causes impairment, but they are not distressed by the disorder
- doesn’t causes client distress but can cause others distress
- ex. someone with narcissistic personality disorder

Question 16

Ego-dystonic

Answer 16

person is distressed by their signs and symptoms
-ex. person with PTSD or depression

Question 17

Defense mechanism

Answer 17

unconscious ways of coping with anxiety
-mature/adaptive (ex. work really really hard to supplement anxiety)
-primitive/maladaptive (negative)

Question 18

Repression

Answer 18

block awareness of painful memory

Question 19

Regression

Answer 19

revert to more childlike way of thinking and behaving to reduce psychological stress

Question 20

Denial

Answer 20

refuses to accept a painful reality

Question 21

Projection

Answer 21

attributing to others feelings unacceptable to self (ex: dislikes a coworker but claims coworker dislikes them)

Question 22

Displacement

Answer 22

directing anger toward someone or onto another, less threatening (safer substitute)

Question 23

Reaction Formation

Answer 23

expressing an opposite feeling from what is actually felt and is considered undesirable (ex. treating someone you strongly dislike very friendly)

Question 24

Intellectualization

Answer 24

extensive focus on logic/ reasoning to avoid uncomfortable feelings associated with a situation

Question 25

Identification

Answer 25

taking on attributes and characteristics of someone admired

Question 26

Sublimation

Answer 26

redirecting unacceptable feelings or drives into an acceptable channel

Question 27

Splitting

Answer 27

Seeing things as all or nothing, causes an individual to perceive people as either all good or all bad and be unable to acknowledge both negative and positive features in one person

Question 28

What is OT’s perspective on mental illness and our contribution to the mental health team in the hospital or community?

Answer 28

OT focuses on functions regardless of presence or absence of disease
-OT considers the whole person, not only the diagnosis (diagnosis does NOT indicate functioning (ie. a person with PTSD may function normally)
ex: how do I think these signs and symptoms affect daily living?