Developmental Disabilities
Officially known as Trisomy 21, this chromosomal disorder is caused by the presence of an extra 21st chromosome.
What is Down's syndrome?
This is one of the most common childhood disorders and can continue through adolescence and into adulthood. Symptoms include difficulty staying focused and paying attention, difficulty controlling behavior, and hyperactivity (over-activity).
What is attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder?
According to the World Health Organization 2019 statistical analysis, approximately 800,000 people die from this phenomenon every year?
What is suicide?
A relative state of emotional well-being where one is free from incapacitating conflicts and is consistently able to make rational decisions and cope with environmental stressors.
What is mental health?
This legislation was signed by President Jimmy Carter and provided grants to community mental health centers and endeavored to address deinstutionalization and was considered landmark legislation in mental health care policy.
What is the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980?
What is Fragile X Syndrome?
Characterized by vicious cycles of negative experiences where people cannot adapt to change and become distressed.
What are personality disorders?
According to the United States Department of Veteran Affairs, about 7 or 8 out of every 100 people (or 7-8% of the population) will develop this condition at some point in their lives.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
A mark of disgrace that sets a person apart from others. When a person is labeled by their illness they are no longer seen as an individual but as part of a stereotyped group. Negative attitudes and beliefs toward this group create prejudice which leads to negative actions and discrimination.
What is stigma?
In 1981 President Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Congress repealed most of the MHSA. This legislation discontinued government leadership in mental health and switched responsibility to individual states through block grant programs.
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981?
A genetic disorder that affects 1 out of 15,000 births. This condition is the most common cause of childhood obesity.
What is Prader Willi Syndrome?
A mental disorder characterized by disruptions in thought processes, perceptions, emotional responsiveness, and social interactions. This condition is typically persistent and can be both severe and disabling.
What is schizophrenia?
This is one of the most common mental health condition in the United States. According the National Institute of Mental Health 2017 Statistics, an estimated 17.3 million adults in the United States experienced this disorder. This number represented 7.1% of all U.S. adults.
What is major depressive disorder?
These conditions vary in duration, severity, and can affect persons of any age, class, race, and ethnicity; these disturbances can impair a person's ability to cope with life's demands and routines.
What are mental disorders?
This legislation made efforts to equalize benefits for both physical and mental health care.
What is the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996?
A neurobiological developmental disorder that typically appears before age 3 and affects the normal development of the brain in the areas of social interaction, communication skills, and cognitive functioning. Boys are 4 times more like to be diagnosed than girls.
What is autism?
These disorders are categorized by impairments of the growth and development of the brain and/or central nervous system. A narrower use of the term refers to a disorder of brain function that affects emotion, learning ability, self-control and memory which unfolds as an individual develops and grows.
What are neurodevelopmental disorders?
In a large national study of college students, 3.5% sexual minority women and 2.1% of sexual minority men reported having this disorder.
What is an eating disorder?
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
A term devised by sociologists to explain how medical knowledge is applied to behaviors that are not self-evidently biological or medical in nature as a form of social control.
What is medicalization?
Commonly known as the "Baker Act," this law allows the involuntary institutionalization and examination of an individual.
What is Florida Mental Health Act?
This is a complex genetic disorder that primarily affects the nervous system. Characteristic features of this condition include delayed development, intellectual disability, severe speech impairment, and problems with movement and balance (ataxia). Children with this syndrome typically have a happy, excitable demeanor with frequent smiling, laughter, and hand-flapping movements.
What is Angelman Syndrome?
A general term that describes decreased mental function due to a medical disease other than a psychiatric illness.
What is a neurocognitive disorder?
This condition affects 6.8 million adults, or 3.1% of the U.S. population, yet only 43.2% are receiving treatment. Women are twice as likely to be affected as men. This condition often co-occurs with major depression.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
This phenomenon dates back to the 13th century when European colonists brought their views back to care for people with mental illness. This practice involved creating a safe and controlled environment.
What is institutionalization?
A Florida law that provides a means of involuntary and voluntary assessment and stabilization and treatment of a person allegedly abusing alcohol or drugs.
What is the Marchman Act? -officially the "Hal S. Marchman Alcohol and Other Drug Services Act of 1993"