Diagnosis
This is the term for choosing the correct diagnosis from conditions with similar features.
What is differential diagnosis?
This is the way people in the middle ages and renaissance explained and treated abnormal behavior.
This was the father of modern psychology who opened the first experimental laboratory at the University of Leipzig.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This was the first big reformed of asylums who believed mentally ill were human beings who had been deprived of reason by severe personal problems.
Who is Pinel?
This is the word inspired by London's Bethlem Hospital because of the poor treatment of patients.
What is "bedlam"?
These are the most commonly diagnosed disorders in females.
What is depression, eating disorders, and anxiety disorders?
This is how the 19th century medical model explained abnormal behavior.
What is biogenic causes - malfunction in the body?
This is the person who first studied psychopathology and created the concept of "syndrome" and "Dementia Praecox".
Who is Emil Kraeplin?
This was the school teacher who reformed prisons and hospitals for the mentally ill by lecturing state legislators.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This is a behavioral or psychological syndrome that is present in an individual and that reflects some kid of underlying psycho-biological dysfunction resulting in clinically significant distress, disability, or impairment in key areas of functioning.
What is a mental disorder?
There are the most commonly diagnosed disorders in males.
What is substance abuse, ASPD, and paranoia?
This is how Greek Civilizations explained abnormal behavior.
This is the person responsible for psychogenic theory - the idea that psychological disturbances are primarily due to emotional stress.
Who is Franz Anton Mesmer?
These were introduced in the 1950s as treatment for the mentally ill who were being de-institutionalized.
What are psychotropic medications?
The term for a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning.
What is a syndrome?
This is how the DSM approaches diagnosing disorders.
What is the descriptive approach the "what" (versus. psychological - the "why")?
This is the person who viewed abnormal behavior in a naturalistic way, exploring both the mental and physical. He also emphasized balancing the humors.
Who is Hippocrates?
This is the person who coined the term schizophrenia.
Who is Eugen Bleuler?
This is the fraction of homeless people who are severely mentally ill and those who suffer from substance abuse.
What are 1/4 and 1/2?
This is where and when the first psychiatric hospital was created.
What is Spain in the early 15th century?
This is the percentage of the US population that will meet the criteria for at least one DSM-IV diagnosis during their lifetime.
What is 46%?
These are the fluids in the body related to the humors.
What are phlegm, blood, black bile, and yellow bile?
This is the person who coined the term masochism.
Who is Richard von Krafft-Ebing?
These are the years in which the prefrontal lobotomy was used.
What is the 1940s and 1950s?
This is the ranking of inmates with the most reported 12-month mental health problems (State Prison, Federal Prison, and Local Jail).
What is Local Jail, State Prison, and Federal Prison?