HISTORY OF MENTAL HEALTH
The shift in care for the mentally ill was brought about by legislation enacted in 1963.
What is deinstitutionalization or the move from institutional care to community mental health services?
This causes negative attitudes, shame, and limited opportunities for people with mental illness.
What is the impact of stigma and discrimination on individuals with mental illness?
This is a process of reflection and lifelong inquiry, involves self awareness of personal and cultural biases as well as awareness and sensitivity to significant cultural issues of others.
What is Cultural Humility?
Definition of Mental Health: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), how does the WHO define mental health?
What is "a state of well-being in which every individual realizes their own potential, can cope with normal stresses, can work productively, and can contribute to their community?
Trauma-Informed Approach: What are the principles of a trauma-informed approach?
What are trauma awareness, safety and trustworthiness, choice and collaboration, and strengths-based and skills building?
During the late 1700s, what was the primary purpose of creating asylums?
What is "to provide a safe refuge and protection for those with mental illness?
Vulnerable Populations: True or False: Vulnerable populations have no better or worse health outcomes than any other population group.
What is False?
The social, economic, physical, and environmental factors that influence a person's health and well-being.
What are the social determinants of health?
These are the principles of healthcare ethics.
What are autonomy, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence, veracity, and fidelity?
Defined by WHO as: more than the absence of mental disorders and an integral part of health.
“a state of well-being in which every individual realized his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community”
What is mental health?
Treatment of People with Mental Illness in the 1950s: Significant change that occurred in the treatment of people with mental illness in the 1950s.
What is the development and use of psychotropic medications?
These are the different types of stigma.
What are public stigma, self-stigma, and institutional stigma?
Ways that professionals provide culturally competent care.
What is by learning about other cultures, challenging biases, and respecting differences?
Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare: Why can ethical dilemmas be challenging for healthcare professionals?
What is conflicting values, legal considerations, and practical restraints?
This criteria defines the scope of practice of a healthcare support worker or community mental health worker.
What is code of ethics, employers policies, Federal/ Provincial or Territorial laws
Treatment of Mental Illness Before the Enlightenment: How were the mentally ill treated before the period of the Enlightenment?
What is confinement in asylums, use of restraints, and often inhumane or cruel treatments?
The negative attitudes, including internalized shame, that people with mental illness have about their own condition.
What is self stigma?
Being aware that a client’s culture and their diversity may influence their values, beliefs, attitudes
What is one example of cultural sensitivity?
Breaching Confidentiality: When can healthcare professionals breach confidentiality in terms of disclosing client information?
Risk of harm to self or others.
The spread of cancer cells from the primary site to other parts of the body through the bloodstream or lymphatic system.
What is metastasis, and how does it occur?
The repetitive cycle of hospital admission without adequate community follow up.
What is deinstitutionalization?
Groups of people who are excluded from the mainstream population or way of life on an economic, social, cultural, or political level.
What is the marginalized population?
The three social determinants of health particularly important to mental health.
What is:
1. Freedom from discrimination and violence's
2. Social inclusion
3. Access to economic resources
These are the four main criteria for involuntary admission under the mental health act.
What are the following criteria for: Has a mental disorder that is seriously impairing function; Requires psychiatric treatment; Needs care, supervision, and management in a designated facility to keep them from putting their well being or the well being of someone else at risk or keeping their mental or physical condition from getting worse ; Could not rightfully be admitted as a voluntary patient
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