The History Of Mental Health Flashcards

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What is meant by supernatural theories for mental health?

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Where mental illness is blamed on possession by evil or demonic spirits, the displeasure of Gods, eclipsed, planetary gravitation, curses and sin

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What is meant by somatogenic theory’s for mental illness?

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They blame disturbances in physical functioning resulting from either illness, genetic inheritance, or brain damage or imbalance

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What is meant by physchogenic theory’s for mental illness?

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They focus on traumatic or stressful experiences, maladaptive learning associations and Cognitions or distorted perceptions

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What is trepanation?

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Where doctors drill a hole in the side of a mentally ill persons head to let out demons or entities possessing them which are causing their mental illness

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What is meant by unbalanced humours?

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Greek doctors believed that mental illness is due to the excess of one of the four natural bodily fluids. 
Black Bile
Blood
Yellow bile 
Phlegm
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What are the four definitions of abnormality?

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Statistical infrequency
Deviation from social norms
Failure to function adequately
Deviation from ideal mental health

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What are the two systems for categorising mental disorders?

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ICD

DSM

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What was Rosenhans aim?

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To test the hypothesis that psychiatrists cannot reliably tell the difference between people who are sane and insane

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Was the first experiment in Rosenhans study a field or a laboratory experiment?

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Field

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Describe Rosenhans study

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Then pseudo patients faked symptoms of schizophrenia to see if the psychiatrists were able to correctly diagnose them

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What was the procedure for the second experiment?

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Staff at a hospital were told that there was going to be a pseudo patient admitted in the hospital. Their job was to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 on who they think was the pseudo patient

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How was the pseudo patients experience in the hospital in experiment 1

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  • all patients disliked their experiences and all wanted to leave immediately
  • non of the pseudo patients were detected as being fake and all but one patient was admitted with a diagnosis of schizophrenia
  • normal behaviours were often seen as aspects of their supposed illness. Eg, writing
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How was powerlessness and depersonalisation shown during the experiment

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Many patients were deprived of many human rights such as freedom of movement and privacy.
Medical records were open to all staff
Many of the toilets didn’t have doors

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Give an example of an anxiety disorder

With a definition

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A phobia

An irrational fear of a specific object or situation that substantially interferes with a persons ability to function

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Give an example of a psychotic disorder

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Schizophrenia

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Give an example of an affective disorder

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Depression