Exam 2 - Mental Illness

Question 1

What are the two categorizations of mental illness?

Answer 1

AMI (Any Mental Illness)
Serious Mental Illness

Question 2

What is AMI?

Answer 2

Any mental, behavioral or emotional behavior (ranges from no impairment to severe)

Question 3

What is Serious Mental Illness?

Answer 3

A mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder resulting in serious functional impairment, which substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities.

Question 4

How does culture relate to the definition of mental illness?

Answer 4

Normative behaviors in one culture may be viewed as symptomatic of mental disorder in another country.

Question 5

What is cultural relativism?

Answer 5

Cross-cultural variation in the social construction of reality.

Question 6

What is the definition of mental illness based on socially?

Answer 6

• Value judgments, typically made by mental health professionals
• Normative expectations and reactions of society
• Differing beliefs about the causes of mental illness

Question 7

What is unipolar (major) depression?

Answer 7

Serious mood disorder, distinct from ‘normal depressive moods’

Considered ‘abnormal when out of proportion to the event and continues past the point at which most people begin to recover.’