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- mental health
Answer the state of mental well-being in which one can cope with the demands of daily life
- mental illness
Answer a disorder that affects a person's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
- general criteria for diagnosis of mental illnesses
Answer -dissatisfaction with characteristics, abilities, and accomplishments
-ineffective or unsatisfying relationship -dissatisfaction with one's place in the world -ineffective coping with life events -lack of personal growth
4. DSM
Answer Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- nomenclature
Answer naming system
- Purpose of DSM
Answer -Standardize nomenclature, language
-Identify defining characteristics or symptoms 1 / 2
-Assist in identifying underlying causes
- DSM-V Classification
Answer allows the practitioner to identify all factors that relate to a patient's condition
- Dorothea Dix
Answer Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first wave of US mental asylums
- Sigmund Freud
Answer Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind. Father of psychoanalysis.
- psychopharmacology
Answer the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
- Deinstitutionalization
Answer transferring the treatment of mental illness from inpatient institutions to community-based facilities that emphasize outpatient care
- Legislation for disability income
Answer -Supplemental security income and social security disability income
-Allowed those with severe/persistent mental illness to be independent financially
- commitment laws
- / 2
Answer laws that enable family members, law enforcement or healthcare professionals to commit a person to a facility or a treatment program.