4 things emphasized in current menal health trends

1.)  outpatient care

2.)  community mental health centers

3.)  behavior modification

4.)  group therapy

a criticism commonly leveled at

Behavior Therapy

"It treats symptoms rather than cause!"

or rather, it has been criticized on the grounds that it treats the observable rather than the underlying problem.

Among first admissions to public mental hospitals, the most prevalent diagnosis is.....

(this is evidence of the category's breadth and "stretchability.")

Schizophrenic Reaction

What view has been held and advanced by Mowrer?

the view that neurosis is a product of (or essentially synonymous with) personal immaturity

Implosive Therapy

In ________, the person experiences the most traumatic events that were a part of the original setting that triggered the emotional disturbance.  The theory is that when the person has gone through the "worst imaginable," there will be a release and the critical beginnings of problem resolution.

Paranoid-type Shizophrenia

this type of schizophrenia contains delusions of grandeur or persecution

Karl Menninger

• known for the position statement, "Psychiatrists Use Dangerous Words," Saturday Evening Post, April 25, 1964.
• concludes that psychiatry should dispense with labels for emotional disturbances, relying more on a  way of behaving than on a disease concept.

Szasz

well known for The Myth of Mental Illness

and The Age of Madness

Conversion Disorder

• physical manifestation
• without physiological cause or evidence

Regression

• returning to a behavior characteristic of an earlier period in life
• a defense mechanism

Fear of Failure

One of the main bases for emotional disturbance.  It becomes intricately interwoven with a poor self-concept.