Mental Health Through History
Influential Individuals
Phrases and Words
Public Policy
100
During this time period, individuals with mental illness were referred to as cursed, possessed and deranged.
What is Colonial Times
100

This prominent American Psychiatrist was associated with the "Moral Treatment Movement"

Who is Benjamin Rush?
100
Focus on the needs of individuals with mental illness
What is the Humanistic Movement?
100
Supported research relating to cause, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness
National Institute of Mental Health
200
New solutions were sought for individuals with mental illness including placement in asylums and insitutions
What is Urbanization?
200
Father of Occupational Therapy
Who is Adolf Meyer?
200
"an essential treatment of persons suffering with mental disorder, of the feeble minded or of delinquents and criminal"
What are curative occupations?
200
Supported the study of mental illness, the development of treatment methods, the evaluation and training of personnel and the survey of Joint Commission on Mental Illness Health
What is the National Mental Health Act?
300
The Quaker beliefs in humane treatment of mentally ill individuals influenced this movement
What is the Mental Hygiene Movement?
300
This individuals woman's group provided a model for community transition and reintegration
Who is Mary Donohue?
300
SAMSHA
What is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration?
300
Seen as unsuccessful due to the release of institutionalized individuals without the community resources to support them.
What is the Community Mental Health Act of 1963?
400

- Protect the public's mental health policy

-Promote research pertaining to etiology and prevention of mental disease

- Seek government aid

- Establish state societies

What are the goals of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (NCMH)?
400
Studied under Willard of Willard and Spackman...occupational therapy leader in mental health practice.
Who is Gail Fidler?
400
"a journey of healing and transformation enabling a person with a mental health problem to live a meaningful life in a community of his or her choice"
What is Recovery?
400

Prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public

What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
500
Equal rights movement of mental health
What is the Consumer or Survivor's Movement?
500
"Tomorrows health care will be designed for the community as well as for the individual....for ours is a day of consumer involvement, confrontation with demands for participation"
Who is Wilma L. West?
500
Future directions in occupational therapy mental health practice
What are advocacy, evidence based practice and recovery oriented practice?
500
Insurance coverage for mental illness should be equal to physical illness
What is the Mental Health Parity Act or the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007?
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