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| Each center was to provide comprehensive mental health services for all residents within a certain geographical region |
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| the release of large numbers of mentally ill persons into the community. |
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| religious ceremonies in which patients were physically punished to drive away the evil possessing spirit. |
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| electroconvulsive therapy |
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| passing electricity through the patient's head helped to improve severe depression |
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| Behaviors relating to health exist over a broad spectrum |
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| Humoral theory of disease |
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| Each basic element had a related humor or part in the body. An overabundance or lack of one or more humors resulted in illness |
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| a surgical procedure that severs the frontal lobes of the brain form the thalamus |
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| the ability to "cope with and adjust to the recurrent stresses of living in an acceptable way". Is influenced by inherited characteristic, childhood nurturing, and life circumstances. |
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| Mental Illness (disorder) |
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| a disturbance in one's ability to cope effectively. |
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| Explaining human behavior in psychological terms under the proper circumstances |
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| Are chemicals that affect the mind, alter emotions, perceptions, and consciousness in several ways. Also called psychopharmacoligic agents, psychotropic drugs, and psychoactive drugs. |
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| cutting holes in the skull to encourage the evil spirits to leave |
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| people are self-aware, directed and responsible for their actions. |
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| Causes and treatments of mental illness |
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| based in superstition, magical beliefs and demonical possession form primitive societies into the 1800. |
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| Priests cared for the sick and exorcised demons, but mentally troubled people were treated with care by the Christian community |
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| large asylums housed the insane, and the belief that witches were the carriers of the devil led to the burning of thousands of women, children, and mentally ill people. |
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| returned many insane people to the streets as church sanctuaries closed in the 1500s |
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| Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dorothea Dix |
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| crusaded for the humane care of mentally ill people in the 1800s. |
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| of the insane population improved during the mid-1800s until huge waves of people overwhelmed the mental health care system causing the conditions to deteriorate. |
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| wrote a book about his experience as a mental patient set the mental hygiene movement of the early 1900s into motion. |
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| in the 1920s his psychoanalytical theories became a popular method for treating emotional problems |
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| pointed out the need for comprehensive mental health care. |
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| Introduction of psychotherapeutic drug treatment |
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| closed many psychiatric institutions |
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