History of Mental Health Pt. 1
In ancient times, some people believed mental illness was caused by this:
A. Cell phones
B. Spirits, curses, or body imbalances
C. Planetary alignments
What are spirits, curses, or body imbalances?
In the early 1900s, this type of treatment helped popularize the idea that talking about feelings and experiences could help:
A. Talk Therapy
B. Public SHame
C. Locking Someone Away
What is talk therapy?
This neurotransmitter is often connected to motivation, reward, pleasure, and movement:
A. Dopamine
B. Serotonin
C. GABA
What is dopamine?
This neurotransmitter helps with memory, learning, attention, and muscle movement:
A. Acetylcholine
B. Dopamine
C. Cortisol
What is acetylcholine?
This therapy focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and helps people challenge their unhelpful thinking patterns:
A. CBT
B. Art Therapy
C. Psychoanalysis
What is CBT?
This was an important early shift in understanding mental illness:
A. Seeing it only as a bad behavior
B. Seeing it as a health-related issue
C. Ignoring it completely
What is seeing it as a health-related issue?
This modern model focuses on building a meaningful life, coping with symptoms, having hope, and making choices:
A. The punishment model
B. The recovery model
C. The hiding model
What is the recovery model?
This neurotransmitter helps regulate mood, sleep, appetite, and digestion:
A. Glutamate
B. Serotonin
C. Acetylcholine
What is serotonin?
These natural chemicals help reduce pain and can create feelings of comfort or well-being:
A. Endorphins
B. Serotonin
C. Glutamate
What are endorphins?
This approach focuses on mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships:
A. Exposure Therapy
B. Dialectical Behavior Therapy
C. Family Systems Therapy
What is DBT?
This can happen when people confuse mental health symptoms with character flaws:
A. Increased understanding
B. More compassion
C. Shame and judgement
What is shame and judgement?
This model says mental health is affected by biology, psychology, and social factors:
A. The whole-body model
B. The biopsychosocial model
C. The balance model
What is the biopsychosocial model?
This neurotransmitter is the brain's main "calming" chemical and helps slow down overactive brain activity:
A. Norepinephrine
B. Dopamine
C. GABA
What is GABA?
This neurotransmitter is strongly involved in the fight-or-flight response and can increase heart rate, energy, and readiness to act"
A. Melatonin
B. Adrenaline
C. Acetylcholine
What is adrenaline?
This therapy helps people gradually face feared situations, memories, or objects in a safe and controlled way:
A. Exposure Therapy
B. Play Therapy
C. Humanistic Therapy
What is Exposure Therapy?
Many asylums in the 1600s and 1700s became known for this problem:
A. Too much freedom
B. Overcrowding and harsh conditions
C. Too many therapy options
What is overcrowding and harsh conditions?
Psychiatric medications became more widely available during this time period and changed mental health treatment:
A. The 1700s
B. The 1950s
C. The 1990s
What are the 1950s?
This neurotransmitter is involved in alertness, focus, and energy:
A. Norepinephrine
B. Serotonin
C. Endorphins
What is norepinephrine?
This chemical helps regulate the sleep-wake cycle and signals the body that it is time to sleep:
A. Dopamine
B. GABA
C. Melatonin
What is melatonin?
This approach looks at how family roles, communication patterns, and relationships affect a person's emotions and behavior:
A. Family Systems Therapy
B. Behavioral Therapy
C. Solution-Focused Therapy
What is family systems therapy?
This 1800s movement pushed for more humane treatment, routine, calm environments, and dignity:
A. Moral treatment
B. Punishment treatment
C. Isolation treatment
What is moral treatment?
This process moved many people out of large psychiatric hospitals, but often lacked enough community support:
A. Deinstitutionalization
B. Hospital expansion
C. Psychoanalysis
This neurotransmitter is the brain's main "exciting" chemical and helps with learning and memory.
A. GABA
B. Glutamate
C. Melatonin
What is glutamate?
This neurotransmitter helps balance calmness and anxiety by slowing brain signals, especially when overstimulated:
A. GABA
B. Glutamate
C. Norepinephrine
What is GABA?
This therapy focuses on a person's strengths, goals, and possible solutions instead of spending most of the time analyzing problems:
A. Psychoanalysis
B. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
C. Exposure Therapy
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?