Weeks 1-2
Conceptions or beliefs that influence the delivery of care and has significant implications for the way we respond to mental illness.
What is Frame of Reference?
The prevention/promotion distinction relates well to this model.
What is the two-continua model.
This model includes beliefs about the cause, impact, and prognosis of a particular condition.
What is the Explanatory Model include?
Focusing on supporting people in their local communities, being close to home, and be delivered in the least intrusive way possible.
What is the Continuum of mental health services focus?
A process of internalization whereby mentally ill persons apply negative stereotypes to themselves.
What is self-stigma?
A conception of mental health that incorporates psychological and social well-being.
What is the Two-Continua Model?
A way the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease methodology looks at the impact of mental illness.
What is health adjusted life years (HALY)?
In Canada, this movement started in the middle part of the nineteenth century.
What is the Asylum Movement?
The mental health system in Canada can be depicted as a continuum that has a range.
What is from least intensity to greatest intensity?
Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior.
What are the Great Lakes?
The structure and delivery of Mental Health Services in North America.
What is the Medical Model?
The population health strategies aimed at improving mental health.
What is primary prevention?
An attempt to remediate deficiencies in practice, health care organizations strive for this among clinical staff a a vision for service delivery.
What are Culturally Sensitive Services?
Services that help an individual gain or regain practical skills in the area of personal care, home management, relationships and the use of community resources.
What is rehabilitation in the area of personal life?
The World Psychiatric Association's "Open the Doors" campaign is an example of this type of initiative.
What is Anti-Stigma Initiative?
Determining program eligibility based on disability, diagnosis, and by visibility & treat ability.
What is how do we determine who needs help?
Negative beliefs and attitudes held about mental illness.
What is stigma?
This era started in Canada in the early 1960s.
What is the deinstitutionalization era?
This is one of the key determinants of health.
What is housing?
The skin.
What is the body's largest organ?
The three dimensions (diagnosis, disability, and duration)
What is used to define a population-based definition of "serious" mental health?
This can lead to public prejudice and experiences of rejection.
What is public stigma?
The Mental Health Commission of Canada has emphasized the need for mental health policies and treatments to be these two things.
What is culturally safe and culturally competent care?
Absent or reduced social ties and the resources that these represent and a diminished sense of connectedness and belonging
What is homelessness?
Hearing about resources, transportation, social and financial services, local community resources.
What are community resources? (occupation and personal life)