Terminology
What is defined as a medical condition affecting a person's thinking, emotions, and behavior?
What is Mental Illness (Disorder)?
What treatment involves the use of medication to address mental disorders?
What are Psychotherapeutic Drugs?
What surgical procedure involves creating a hole in the skull?
What is Trephination?
What was the outcome for many patients after insulin treatment for schizophrenia?
What is remission or improvement?
Dates back to the earliest days in the history of mental illness treatments
Trephination
What term describes the practice of removing demons from a possessed person?
What is Demonic Exorcisms?
Which treatment uses an electric current to induce a seizure in the brain?
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
Which procedure involved severing connections in the brain?
What is a Lobotomy?
What did the Community Mental Health Act of 1963 lead to in terms of patient population?
What is the release of 75% of patients into communities?
Preferred treatment for mental illness beginning in medieval times.
Isolation & Asylums
What system of four fluids was thought to be responsible for health and disease?
What are humors?
What treatment involved administering increasing doses of insulin to patients?
What is Hypoglycemia treatment?
2 part answer:
What method was historically used to treat mental illness by physically restraining patients?
What is the use of restraints and ice water baths?
What was a common issue faced by asylums in the 17th century?
What is overcrowding and poor sanitation?
Could result in fractured bones, torn muscles, and other adverse effects.
Metrazol Therapy
What term refers to the geographic area that receives mental health services?
What is a Catchment Area?
What was the main goal of deinstitutionalization?
What is to move mental health care from institutions to community-based services?
Which treatment involved inducing seizures through a stimulant?
What is Seizure therapy?
What was a significant consequence of the medical treatment methods used in asylums?
What is the use of brutal tactics?
Patients received daily and increasing doses, rising to many hundreds of units, for a 6-week period.
Insulin Therapy
What is the term for a person's overall well-being affecting their thoughts, feelings, and actions?
What is the method of explaining and treating mental disorders through patient dialogue?
What is Psychoanalysis?
What did the practice of bloodletting aim to balance in the body?
What are the humors?
What was the belief regarding hospitals during the civil rights movement related to mental health?
What is that they were cruel and inhumane?
Act to provide federal funding for community mental health centers and research facilities
The Community Mental Health Act of 1963