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What is Mental Health?
Definition
Mental health is the concept or ability to adapt to everyday life.
Term
What is Mental illness?
Definition
Mental illness is the inability to cope with the results in impaired functioning.
Term
What are some traits of a mentally healthy person?
Definition
They are aware
Responsible for their actions
Term
What are inherited character traits , that influence mental health?
Definition
Inherited characteristics
Childhood nuturing
Life circumstances
Term
Cases and treatments of mental illness what factors?
Definition
Superstition
Magical beliefs demonical possesion from primitive societies into the 1800's
Term
What are the definitive roles of the priest during the christian middle ages?
Definition
Caring for the sick and exorcised demons
Term
During the middle ages what was the general use of asylums?
Definition
Housed the insane(mental ill) because they believed that witches were carriers of the devil, which lead to burning of
Term
During the time of 1800's what two american theorist are responsible for crusading for human care of mentally-ill people?
Definition
Dr. Benjamin Rush
Dorethea Dix
Term
When did the standards of care improve for the insane population? (what time period who are responsible)
Definition
1800's during the erection of Philadelphia Almshouse

1800's *care for the the mentally ill did not begin to improve until the arrival of "Alice Fisher,a florence nightengale trained nurse.
Term
Who was an advocate apprentice of florence nightengale,who helped reform mental health care?
Definition
Alice Fisher
Term
What is the name of the book written by clifford beers and what is it about?
Definition
Wrote: "A mind that wrote itself"
About: the book recounted the beatings and isolation,and confinement of a mentally ill person.
Term
What committee was formed by the works and research of,"clifford beers"?
Definition
The commite for mental hygiene was formed in 1909. (It focused on removing the stigma of mental -illness)

-it refers to the concept of keeping the mind healthy and in shape.
Term
By the 1920's sigmund freud contributed to what theories for treating emotional problems?
Definition
Psychoanalytical theories
Consist of:
Repressed sexual energies

Observational theory was presented as the first comprehensive theory of mental illness.

"theory of three"

Id:
Super ego:
Ego:
Term
What is sigmund freuds theory of three?
Definition
Id: instant gratification,impulse reaction or action based on desire will without congitial thought of cognitive measures.

Super ego: the good, bad, right or wrong unconcious action not based on cohnitive thought.

Ego: comprises of and moderate both super ego and the id the concious mind that poses a measurement of sense of time.
Term
What are the factors of mental health influences?
Definition
Inherited characteristics
Child nuturing
Life circumstances
Term
What is the factorization of a mentally ill person? (also called mental ill disturbances)?
Definition
Behaviors interfere with daily activities impair judgement,or alter reality.

*definition: is the disturbances in ones ability to cope effectively.
Term
What are other ways to say mental illness?
Definition
Insanity
Mental ill disturbances
Mental incapacity or incapcitated
Term
Early civilization believed that mental illness originated from where?
Definition
Wrath of evil spirits,therefore people with mental illness were possesed by demons of the forces of evil. (use the force luke)
Term
What is trephining?
Definition
Cutting holes in the skull to encourage the evil spirits to leave.
Term
During early civilization,what theories focused on removing the evil spirits,which consisted of what type of theories,what are some examples?
Definition
Magical therapies
a) use of frightening mask and noise
b) incantations (chant)
c) vile ordors
d) charms
e) spells
f) sacrifices and fetishes
Term
What are the physical therapies involved during early civilization for treatment?
Definition
Bleeding
Massage
Blistering
Vommitting
And practice for trephining (see #18)
Term
What is the difference between physical and medical therapies?
Definition
Magical = use of chants,rituals,dance,spells charms super natural forces of healing and sacrificial methods.

Physical= measures of physical contact and procedures that let the evil escape the body.
Term
What do physical and magical therapy have in common?
Definition
Both deal with removing "evil spirits and devil possesion during the early civilizations.
Term
Greece contributed to what idea of mental illness?
Definition
Mental illness rationalized memtal illness which is explained through observation.
Term
Who fathered the theory of humural theory?
Definition
Hippocrates
Term
What is the humural theory?
Definition
Consist of the balance of elements:
1) air
2) fire
3)water
4) Earth

(avatar)
Term
Hippocrates was born? Who was he and what did he do?
Definition
Greek physcian born 460 B.C
Term
What did hippocrates belive?
Definition
Viewed mental illness based on factors of imbalnced humurs or elements (air,fire,earth,water)
Term
What is the philosophy that governs,hippocrates theories?
Definition
He felt the role of a physcian was to assist in,rather than direct,healing process through proper diet and exercise and personal hygiene.
Term
Who is Plato and what did he contribute to mental healthcare?
Definition
Plato is a greek philosopher that recognized life as dynamic balance maintained by the soul it consisted in the theories of:

Rational soul: (head)
Irrational soul: (heart and abdomen)
Term
What is Platos philosophy on mental healthcare?
Definition
That rational soul can be controlled by irrational soul and could be compared with belief of the more recent psychological theorist: sigmund Freud
Term
Greece and Rome Era Theorist?
Definition
Hippocrates - Greek Physician born 460 BC

Platto:
Greek Philospher (427-347 BC)
Term
Middle Age Era?
Definition
Dark Ages - 500 AD to 1100AD
Term
During the time of the middle ages,Early christians believed that mental illness was a form of what_for_what?
Definition
Punishement for sins,possession by the devil or result of witchcraft.
Term
How did priest contribute to the middle ages of mental health era?
Definition
priests were considered the caregivers for the sick

Performed Exorcisms and Religious Ceremonies to drive out evial from affected individuals.
Term
What was the contribution of the arabic influence towards mental health?
Definition
The arabs had extensive knowledge of drubs and awareness of the relatnioshp between emotions and disease.
Term
Where was the first mental institution and what year?
Definition
By 1330,Bethlehem or Bedlam

*it was a lunatic asylum and infamous for its brutal treatments.

*this was not a form of restitution or recovery except a place to completly isolate and torture the ill minded*
Term
Bedlam was founded by who in 1247?
Definition
Sheriff Of London
Term
What type of treatment did mentally ill patients or residence expect to find in Bedlam?
Definition
the Violently ill patients were chained to walls in small cells and ten provided "entertainment for the public".

Such as:
humilation
torture
public punishment or lashes i.e.
Term
What is demonical exorcisms?
Definition
religious ceremonies in which patients were physically punished to drive away the evil possessing spirit.
Term
Who influenced the term universites as a means of educational learning institutions?
Definition
Arabs
Term
What is lunacy?
Definition
A disorder caused by a lunar body?
Term
What is antierotic movement mean?
Definition
(ugh it means your not erotica)

*A movement that focused on women as the culprit cause of mens lust. Because women were thought to be carriers of devil because they stirred mens passions. (thats where the word seductive comes from this is a libog questions shheh)
Term
When was witch hunting officialy launched?
Definition
1487
Term
What is the name of publication book launced in 1487?
Definition
The Witches Hammer, which is a text book of both pornography and psychopathology. (so this is the real karma sultra)
Term
If people were insane is it caused by an outside source,this philosphy originated with what?
Definition
Church doctrine during the middle ages 500 AD to 1100 AD
Term
What happened during the time of 1130 with monks and there practice?
Definition
Monks were forbiden to practice medicaine because it was considered too disruptive to their way of life.
Term
Where did the renaissance begin?
Definition
The renaissance began in Italy around 1400.
Term
What is melancholia mean?
Definition
Depression
Term
What are the classification terms used during teh mid 1500's renaissance period?
Definition
Melancholia
mania
Psyhopathology
Term
The poor,sick and insane were turned out onto the streets because of what result?
Definition
the separation between the catholic and protestant churces,many hospitals oorated by catholic church began to close.
Term
When did reformation begin?
Definition
1517
Term
Who is Benjamin Rush?
Definition
A crusader for the insane,graudated from Princeton University at age of 15.
Term
The 1800's marked an era for Psychiatry developes as what?
Definition
A seperate branch of medicine,questioning inhumane treatment and vicious practices were openly questioned.
Term
What did Philippe Pinel liberate in 1792?
Definition
free patients from their chains and fought for the acceptance of the ill as human beings. Given free fair proper treatment to the mentally ill.
Term
The book entitled diseases of the mind was the first psychiatric text written in the united states by whom?
Definition
Dr. Benjamin Rush wrote the book, "diseases of the Mind which advocated for clean conditions; good air,lighting,and food; and kindess.
Term
A movement that occured to influence the sick was called?
Definition
Reformation of 1517
Term
Developments in science,literature,philosophy,and the arts set the foundations for modern world which,this brought about a change to replace magical thinking to what?
Definition
Reasoning but strong belief in demaons still persisted.
Term
Who was one of the most important figures of the 19th century psyhiatry?
Definition
Dr. Benjamin Rush, a crusader for the insane (1745-1813)
Term
During the 1830's what concept was being replaced?
Definition
"once insane always insane" - that cure is possible and reformity.
Term
What century held auctions and sold slaves while the violent ones were contained in asylums?
Definition
the 19th century
Term
What two class system of psychiatric care emerged during the late 1800's and start of the 19th century?
Definition
"Private Care" - for the wealthy
"publicity provided care" for the remainder of society
Term
What role did Dorothea Dix play during the 19th century?
Definition
In 1841 Dorethea Dix surveyed asylums,jails,and almshouses.

Her concept was to be a voice that general cared for the mentally ill to seek reform. As a result, to this movement millions of dollars were rasied and more hospitals were built,thus the standards of care were progressively improved.
Term
What role does war have on influence of mental health care?
Definition
During WWI mean were drafted into service and processed,but many What were consdered "mentally defiecient to fight, this posed the federal government to have the Beers committee for mental hygiene, to devise master plan to to screen and train the mentally ill soldiers.
Term
What is the hill burton act?
Definition
in 1937, congress passed the hill burton act, which funded the constuction of psychiatric units throughout the united states
Term
What is the National Mental health act?
Definition
1946 congress passed the National Mental Health Act. This program funded research,traning and mental health professionals and expansion of state mental health facilities.
Term
When was the national institute of mental health organized?
Definition
in 1949 it provided research and training related to mental illness.
Term
What is insulin therapy used for?
Definition
Schizophrenia,it induced 50 hour comas through massive doses of insulin
Term
what type of drugs were used for mental health care?
Definition
Amphetamines and insulin
Term
What are teh several types of mental hygiene therapies?
Definition
Drugs
Insulin therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Lobotomy
Term
What is lobotomy?
Definition
helped eliminate violent behaviors through surgical procedure that seeres the frontal lobes of the brain from the thalamus
Term
When was Psychoterapeutic drugs introduced?
Definition
1950's led to the deinsitutionalization of many mentally ill individuals.
Term
What is deinstitutionaliation mean?
Definition
The release of large numbers of mentally ill persons into the commnity.
Term
What is another name for CHlorpromazine?
Definition
Thorazine
Term
What is Thorazine?
Definition
introduced in the 1956 and proved useful in controlling many behaviors observed in schizophrenia and other psychoses.
Term
Why were amphetamines intrdouced for?
Definition
in the 1930's amphetamines servered to boost the spirits of depressed people(Agh that is where Methanphetamine dioxide 4 comes from,XTC)
Term
What is used to control mood swings in bipolar or also known as manic-depressive illness, who was it discorvered by?
Definition
1949 John Cade, Australian MD dicovered that lithium carbonate is used for control of Bipolar symptoms and outrages.
Term
What is the act in 1963 which designed to support the constrution of mental helath centers in communties through the united states?
Definition
Community Mental Health Centers Act (1963)
Term
Which act did congress pass to provde funding for community centers based on complex set of guidelines?
Definition
Coomunity Mental Health Centeres Act in 1975
Term
What is the Medicare/Medicaid Bill of 1965?
Definition
released more than 75% of institutionalized mentally ill persons into the community before strategies,programs or facilties were in place.
Term
The act that resulted in a block grant funding where each state received a "block" or designated amount of federal money.
Definition
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981
Term
What was the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987?
Definition
The omnibus Budget reform Act (obra) of 1987 prevented the housing of people with chronic mental illness in Nursing homes and resulted in those patients being released into the communities.
Term
The Presidents Commuission on Mental Health established by whom and what did it asses?
Definition
established by President Jimmy Carter to assess the mental health needs and recommend possible courses of action to strengthen and improve existing community mental health efforts in our nation.
Term
What is the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980?
Definition
a progressive mental health bill which addressed community mental health care and clients rights and established priorities for research and training.

*interuptedby election of a new president*
Term
NAMI 2006 stands for?
Definition
National ALliance for Mental Illness
Term
What does NAMI 2006 do?
Definition
survey and grading of state adult mental healthcare systems
Term
Why might the NAMI give a grade of "D" to a mental health facilities what could be the possible reasons?
Definition
the grade will be based on poor funding,limited availiablity of care,and patients lack of access to mental healthcare.
Term
What did the recomendations focus on with the National alliance for Mental illness of 2006 survey?
Definition
Focused on increased funding,availiability of care,access to care,and greater involvement of consumers and their families.
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