Quiz5 Psych/mental Health Flashcards
What is a behavior
The manner in which a person performs any or all of the activities of daily living
What is mental health
One’s ability to COPE with and adjust to the recurrent stresses of everyday living
Who are mentally healthy people?
Individuals who are able to enjoy life’s activities, adapt successfully to changes, set realistic goals, solve problems, have satisfying working relationships, and maintain interpersonal relationships with family and friends.
Factors of the mentally healthy
Inherited characteristics, childhood nurturing, and life’s circumstances
Nature——- nurture
Positive influences of mentally healthy people
Inherit adequate coping ability, mother-child bonding at birth, success in school, good physical health, and financial security
Negative influences
Cognitive Impairment, schizophrenia, extreme sibling rivalry, parental rejection, deprivation of maternal love, poor physical health, poverty, and dysfunctional relationships
What is mental illness?
A manifestation of dysfunction (behavioral, psychological, and biological)
History of mental illness
- Thought to be possessed by evil spirits
- Shamans or medicine men focused on removing evil spirits by magical treatments such as spells, potions, noises, or sacrifices and by physical treatments such as vomiting, bleeding, massage, and trephining (cutting holes in skull to release evil spirits
- if unsuccessful, community abandoned the affected individual to die by starvation or attack by wild animals
What is the humoral theory
The Greeks introduced the idea that it is possible to explain mental illness by observation of behavior
Hippocrates viewed mental illness as an imbalance of humors based on the fundamental elements of the world; air, fire, water, earth. Each basic element corresponded to a particular fluid in the body: blood, yellow bile, phlegm, and black bile.
What did the early Christians believe about mental illness?
It was punishment for sins committed, evidence of possession by the devil, or an effect of witchcraft
Exorcisms, physical punishment and imprisonment, or banishment became the treatment for mental illness
What is the first English institution for the mentally ill called
Bethlehem Royal Hospital founded in the 16th century by Henry VI
Bedlam- English word for a place for confusion
17th and 18th century
Conditions for the mentally ill worse than everything
Bleeding, starving, beating, purging, and confinement were the treatments
Latter half of 18 century, psychiatry became a separate branch
William Tukes built an asylum, his philosophy of carewas to encourage acceptable behavior by providing a nurturing atmosphere
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Established the Pennsylvania Hospital (1731) in Philadelphia for treatment of the mentally ill
Used a more humane therapy in his practice
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Retired school teacher who was appalled by the care of the mentally ill and set out to change it
Her efforts raised millions of dollars for the development of mental hospitals throughout the U.S
20th century
Committee for mental hygiene formed in 1909
Focused on prevention of mental illness and removal of the stigma of mental illness
1930s developed electroconvulsive therapy and insulin shock therapy to treat schizophrenia
1939 half of the nursing schools iffered psychiatric courses in their curriculum
