Overview

Question 1

Social influences on mental health care

Answer 1

• Consumer mvt. towards recovery
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
• Human Genome Project ( realized that its genetic )
  -New Freedom commission on mental health
• Brain research through advancing innovative neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative
• Research diagnostic criteria (RDoC) initiative

Question 2

What is the Mental Health Parity Act (1996)

Answer 2

Required insurance companies to provide equal treatment coverage for psychiatric disorders

-Parity = equivalence

Question 3

What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010

Answer 3

• provided coverage for most uninsured americans through expanded medicaid eligibility (for very poor)
• Created health insurance exchanges to offer more choices

-“insurance mandate” for coverage

Question 4

WHO definition of health

Answer 4

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 5

What are the qualities that one exhibits when they have good mental health

Answer 5

1. Able to recognize own potential
2. Cope with normal stress
3. Work productively
4. Make contribution to community

Ability to
-think rationally
- communicate appropriately
- learn
- grow emotionally
- be resilient
- have a healthy self-esteem
- realistic goals & reasonable function within individuals role

Question 6

Definition of mental illness

Answer 6

Significant disfunction in mental functioning related to
1. development
2. biological
3. psychologic disturbances

(disorders with definable diagnosis)

Question 7

Examples of culturally defined mental illness

Answer 7

1. being afraid of bombs while living in Afghanistan
2. hearing voices can mean a good thing in other cultures

Question 8

True or False: Mental health is a continuum

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What is the best treatment for mental illness

Answer 9

Combination of medication and therapy

Question 10

Definition and characteristics of Resilience

Answer 10

The ability and capacity to secure resources needed to support well-being

Characteristics
1. optimism
2. sense of mastery + confidence
3. competence

ESSENTIAL TO RECOVERY

Question 11

What is the diathesis stress model

Answer 11

• Combination of genetic vulnerability & negative environmental stressors
  ( something stressful in the environment can trigger biological predisposition that leads to mental illness )

Diathesis= biological disposition

Stress= environmental stress or trauma

Assertion: most psychiatric disorders results from combination of genetic vulnerability & negative environmental stressors

Question 12

Maslows Hierarchy of Needs: 1

Answer 12

PSYCHOLOGICAL
- breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, excretion

Question 13

Maslows Hierarchy of Needs: 2

Answer 13

SAFETY
-security of body, of employment, of resources, of morality, of the family, og health, of property

Question 14

Maslows Hierarchy of Needs: 3

Answer 14

LOVE/ BELONGING
- friendship, family, sexual intimacy

Question 15

Maslows Hierarchy of Needs: 4

Answer 15

Esteem
- self esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of others , respect by others

Question 16

Maslows Hierarchy of Needs: 5

Answer 16

Self-actualization
- morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts