This is an emotional state in which a person feels extremely sad and hopeless.
What is depression?
100
Memory loss, fractured bones, and nausea are side effects of this mental health treatment.
What is electroshock/electroconvulsive therapy?
100
What is the difference between paranoia and anxiety?
Paranoia is based in suspicion and is usually directed at a target. Anxiety is rooted in fear and has no identifiable source. Paranoia may cause anxiety; but anxiety cannot cause paranoia.
100
These four factors are possible causes of mental disorders.
What are physical factors (damage to the brain), heredity, early experiences, and recent experiences?
100
Before the popularity of mental institutions, symptoms of mental illness blamed on this.
What is divine punishment?
200
This is anxiety related to a specific situation or object
What is a phobia?
200
She was an 1840s activist who lobbied for better living conditions for the mentally ill after witnessing the dangerous and unhealthy conditions.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
200
What is the difference between a phobia and generalized anxiety disorder?
A phobia is an extreme fear that can be attributed to one source; generalized anxiety disorder has no identifiable source or cause.
200
Themes
Intense stress when things are not orderly
Excessive cleaning
Excessive counting
Excessive checking
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
200
Job discrimination, housing discrimination, and the refusal to seek treatment are possible consequence of this.
What is the mental health stigma?
300
This is when you are overly suspicious of other people.
What is paranoia?
300
In this model of treatment, many patients live in hospitals and are treated by professional staff.
What is the institutional inpatient care model?
300
What is the significance of the shift from "lunatic asylum" to "psychiatric hospital?"
The former term is dehumanizing and implies that the institution is a holding spot for dangerous individuals. The latter term indicates the the institution treats mentally ill patients, just as a hospital treats physically ill patients.
300
Flashbacks or nightmares
Difficulty sleeping and concentrating
Avoidance
Guilt
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
300
In 1946, Harry Truman passed this bill, which directed government funds towards research into the causes of and treatments for mental illness.
What was the National Mental Health Act?
400
This is an unreasonable need to behave in a certain way to prevent a feared outcome.
What is a compulsion?
400
This is a term for the movement of mental health patients from hospitals into the criminal justice system.
What is transinstitutionalization?
400
What is the difference between anxiety and generalized anxiety disorder?
Anxiety may occur at any time, on an infrequent and inconsistent basis; generalized anxiety disorder persists over a long period of time and disrupts daily life.
400
Kleptomania
Gambling
Shopping
What is an impulse-control disorder?
400
In the mid-1950s, the development of these helped fuel deinstitutionalization and outpatient treatment.
What are antipsychotic drugs?
500
This is a condition in which the patient experiences extreme emotions that make it difficult to function well in daily life.
What is mood disorder?
500
This process of mass migration from rural areas into cities was responsible for the initial success of "lunatic asylums" in the early 1800s.
What is urbanization?
500
What is the difference between a compulsion and impulse-control disorder?
The motivations are different. Compulsions are driven by fear; impulse-control disorder is driven by an inability to control one's own harmful impulses.
500
“Split mind”
Severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior
Rarely harmful to others
May develop fears unsupported by reality
What is schizophrenia?
500
Name one reason why the inpatient treatment institutions initially failed.