Principles of Mental Health
Persons who can cope with and adjust in an acceptable way to the recurrent stresses of daily living are,
What is a mentally health adult?
This serves as a basis for planning and prioritizing client care.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
A common expression of frustration in children ages 1-4 years.
The ability to accept responsibility, delay gratification and make priorities is......
What is Maturity?
A relapse of a symptom, disease, or behavior pattern.
What is Recidivism?
The ability to objectively look within possesses....
What is self-awareness?
She surveyed asylums and jails in the 19th-century US, leading to greatly improved care for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Adolescence begins around 11-12 years and ends between _________.
What is 18 - 21 years?
Adults who face the responsibility of caring for both their children and their aging parents...........
Who is the Sandwich Generation?
A surgical procedure that disconnects the frontal lobes from the thalamus in the brain and results in a decrease in violent behaviors and mood swings.
What is a Lobotomy?
These are crossed when caregivers become too helpful or controlling.
What are professional boundaries?
Hippocrates viewed mental illness as an imbalance of air, fire, water and earth, this is the ___________.
What is the Humoral Theory?
Autism, Rett syndrome, Asperger's and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder are examples of......
What are Pervasive Developmental Disorders?
The loss of recent memory is............
What is the early stage of Alzheimer's Disease?
This was passed by Congress in October 1963.
What is the Community Mental Health Centers Act?
A tool that is used to facilitate diagnosis and guide clinical practice.
What is the DSM-5 (The diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition)?
The discovery of this allowed for the control of mood swings in bipolar illness.
What is Lithium Carbonate? (Lithium)
This is the leading cause of intellectual disability in children.
What is FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)?
A behavior where confusion and agitation and disruptive actions occur in the late afternoon or evening.
What is Sundowning?
They support mentally ill clients living in the community; psychosocial rehabilitation, consultation, resource linkage, advocacy, therapy and crisis intervention.
What are Case Managers?
Culture, social class, relationships, perceptions, values and parts of a message....
What are characteristics of communication?
This term was formed based on the belief that an outside force like the moon cased insanity.
What is Lunacy?
Growing in a proximal to distal direction is..............
What is Cephalocaudal?
What is Polypharmacy?
The first psychiatric text in the United States was written by..........
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
Continually learning about other cultures and developing therapeutic skills is .............
What is Cultural Competence?