The Epidemiology of Mental Illness
Defining Mental Illness
The History of Treatment
the Experience of Mental Illness
Random Terminology
100
Stress caused by divorce, job loss, or death in the family.Stress that is "here one moment, and gone the next".
What is acute stress
100
This model of illness is composed of four assumptions about the nature of mental illness.
What is the medical model of mental illness
100
Until the modern scientific age, societies typically viewed disturbing behaviors as what?
What is punishment for sin
100
The interacional technique that people use to manage persons they view as persistent sources of trouble is referred to as what?
What is accommodation
100
Through symbolic interactionism, individual identity develops through an ongoing process in which individuals see themselves through the eyes of others, and become what is already believed to be. This is known as what?
What is self-fulfilling prophecy.
200
This gender displays higher rates of disorders linked to violence and impulse-control
What is men
200
Behavior leads to the label of mental illness when it violates cognitive, performance, and what third norm?
What is feeling norms
200
After the 18th century, people with disabilities, poor people, and criminals were all housed together in public facilities known as what?
What is Almshouses.
200
A way in which individuals define their own health; Downplaying situations as "problems" rather than illness.
What is self-labeling
200
A patients feeling that they are no longer human, or are no longer considered fully human by others.
What is depersonalization
300
Which ethnic group is least likely to experience anxiety disorders and mood disorders due to a thriving social support network
Who are Hispanics
300
This refers to the likelihood that people who use the same measure, will reach the same conclusion.
What is Reliability
300
Teaching individuals to live in society by showing them kindness, giving them opportunities to work and play, and in general treating mental illness more as a moral than a medical issue.
What is Moral Treatment
300
In any given year, which percentage of working-age adults experience a diagnosable mental illness?
What is 31%
300
This refers to a process through which a persons self image is damaged and replaced by a personality adapted to institutional life.
What is Mortification
400
which theory suggests that mental problems cause individuals to drift downward in social class
What is Social Drift Theory
400
This refers to the likelihood that a given measure accurately reflects what those who use the measure believe it reflects.
What is validity
400
Shifting treatment form inpatient care to outpatient care; the process of moving mental health care away from large institutions.
What is deinstitutionalization.
400
Research on the post-patient experience has focused on assesing the balance between the long term positive benefits of treatment and harm cause by?
What is stigma
400
The portion of the personality that has internalized social ideas about right and wrong - develops during phallic stage.
What is superego.
500
Most research show that this theory better explains the link between social class and mental illness.
What is social stress theory
500
A view in this model describes behavior becoming labeled as a mental illness when those in power consider it both unacceptable and inherently incomprehensible.
What is The sociological model of mental illness
500
Any system that controls health care spending by closely monitoring where patients receive health care, what sorts of providers patients use, what treatments they receive, and with what consequences.
What is Managed Care Organizations (MCO's)
500
Individuals can attempt to make their emotions match social expectations through a process called what?
What is feeling work
500
A set of sociocultural beliefs and practices that encourage and legitimate the autonomy, equality and dignity of individuals.
What is individualism