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Mental Health 101
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What year was Cherry Hospital's first patient admitted?

What is 1880?

100

In what city is Cherry Hospital located?

What is Goldsboro, North Carolina?

100

What age group is treated in the Adolescent Unit?

What is 12–17 years old?

100

What is the name of the old Cherry Hospital museum building?

What is the Special Services house?

100

What is the difference between mental health and mental illness?

Mental health is a general state of emotional well-being; mental illness refers to diagnosable mental health conditions.

200

What was the original name of Cherry Hospital?

What is the Asylum for Colored Insane? 

200

What educational institution operates inside Cherry Hospital for adolescents?

What is Riverbend School?

200

What unit treats psychiatric patients with physical illness?

What is the Medical Psychiatric Unit/3 Oak?

200

What year was the cemetery memorial monument at Cherry Hospital dedicated?

What is 2004?

200

This month is recognized in the U.S. as Mental Health Awareness Month.

What is May?

300

In what year did Cherry Hospital become integrated, treating patients of all races?

1965

300

What is the name of the center that includes a gym, library, and barbershop?

What is the Hope and Wellness Center?

300

What unit helps patients return to independent functioning using work therapy and counseling?

What is the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit?

300

What caused the permanent closing of the Cherry Hospital Museum in 2017?

What is flooding from Hurricane Matthew?

300

Writing your thoughts in this can help manage anxiety and depression.

What is a journal?

400

Who was Cherry Hospital named after?

Who is Governor R. Gregg Cherry?

400

How many psychiatric beds did the new Cherry Hospital expand to in 2016?

What is 300?

400

What is the main goal of the Geriatric Admissions Unit?

What is re-motivation, reorientation, and rehabilitation?

400

Approximately how many patients were buried on the hospital grounds since 1913?

What is over 3,800?

400

These mental health strategies help identify and change negative thought patterns.

What are cognitive behavioral techniques?

500

What therapy tool was introduced in 1884 for early treatment?

What is a battery (electricity as treatment)?

500

What is the total square footage of the new Cherry Hospital facility?

What is approximately 410,000 square feet?

500

What is the Adult and Acute Admissions Unit designed for?

What is short-term crisis care for ages 18–60?

500

What 19th-century reformer advocated for state mental hospitals in NC and influenced Cherry’s development?

Who is Dorothea Dix?

500

This term refers to the negative attitudes and discrimination against people with mental illness.

What is stigma?