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| Those with over characteristics that are found in over 50% of a population. |
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| Subgroups of a population that consists of less than 50% of the population. |
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| Which race/ethnicity is the majority? |
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| White, Non-Latino with 67% of the population. |
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| According to population projections from 2000 to 2050, which race will decrease in percentage? |
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| White, Non-Hispanic will decrease from 69.4% in 2000 to 50.1% in 2050. |
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| What was the name of the 1985 landmark report that first documented the health status disparities of minority groups in the United States? |
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| The Secretary’s Task Force Report on Black and Minority Health. |
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| Is the term Hispanic is an ethnic classification or a race? |
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| An ethnic classification, as Hispanics can be of any race. |
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| The cultural modification of an individual or group by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture. |
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| What is the most influential single contributor to premature morbidity and mortality? |
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| What did Friedman identify as kinds of power associated with empowerment? |
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| Social, political, and psychological |
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| Deficiency in one’s psychological resources for dealing with everyday life, usually characterized by distress or impairment of one or more areas of functioning. |
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| Emotional and social well-being, including one's psychological resources for dealing with the day-to-day problems of life. |
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| A collective term for all mental disorders. |
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| An affective mental disorder characterized by distinct periods of elevated mood alternating with periods of depression. |
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| An affective disorder characterized by a dysphoric mood, usually depression, or loss of interest or pleasure in almost all usual activities or pastimes. |
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| Define General Adaptation Syndrome - GAS |
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| The complex physiological responses resulting from exposure to stressors that can in time result in health deficits. |
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| Surgical severance of nerve fibers of the brain by incision |
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| What was the mental hygiene movement? |
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| A movement by those who believed that mental illness could be cured if identified and treated at an early stage; proponents were Adolph Meyer and Clifford Beers. |
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| Define electroconvulsive therapy - ECT |
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| A method of treating for mental disorders involving the administration of electric current to induce a coma or convulsions. |
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| What are neuroleptic drugs? |
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| A drug that reduces nervous activity; another term for antipsychotic drug. |
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| What belief was moral treatment based on? |
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| Treatment for mental illness in the 18th and 19th centuries; it was based on believe that mental illness was caused by moral deterioration. |
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| A treatment methodology based on the Freudian concept of emotional release (catharsis), sexual conflict resolution, and subconscious drives. |
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| Define cognitive-behavioral therapy |
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| Treatment based on learning theory in which a patient learns adaptive skills through rewards and satisfaction. |
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| Define psychopharmacological therapy |
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| Treatment for mental illness that involves medications. |
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| Groups of concerned citizens who are united by a shared interest, concern, or deficit not shared by other members of the community; alcoholics Anonymous, for example. Also called “self-help support groups.” |
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| Define physical dependence |
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| Drug dependence in which discontinued use results in the onset of physical illness. |
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| Define chemical dependence |
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| This occurs when a user feels that a particular drug is necessary for normal functioning. Can be psychological and/or physical. |
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| Define psychological dependence |
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| A psychological state characterized by an overwhelming desire to continue use of a drug. |
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| Use of a drug despite the knowledge that continued use is detrimental to one’s health or well-being. |
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| Inappropriate use of prescription or non-prescription drugs. |
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| A non-evaluative term referring to drug-taking behavior in general; any drug-taking behavior. |
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| Consuming five or more alcoholic drinks in a row for males, and four or more for females. |
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| One for whom alcohol consumption results n personal, economic, medical, social, or any other type of problem. |
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| Yes. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, it is a primary chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. It is often progressive and fatal. |
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| Concurrent use of multiple drugs. |
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| Drugs similar to morphine that reduce pain and induce a stuporous state. |
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| A drug that increases the activity of the central nervous system; for example, methamphetamine. |
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| A psychoactive drug that slows down the central nervous system. |
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| that produce profound distortions of the senses. |
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