Chapter 21: Mental Health Professionals

Question 1

Anorexia nervosa

Answer 1

An eating disorder involving a refusal to eat.

Question 2

Bulimia nervosa

Answer 2

An eating disorder characterized by cyclical binging and purging episodes.

Question 3

Developmental psychologists

Answer 3

Psychiatric specialists in investigating the development of individuals from prenatal origins through old age.

Question 4

Economic effectiveness

Answer 4

Ability of an individual to be financially self-sustaining within the parameters of an emotional or mental disability.

Question 5

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Answer 5

Mental health programs provided by employers to help employees deal with personal problems.

Question 6

Mental health

Answer 6

A state of emotional and psychological wellbeing.

Question 7

Obesity

Answer 7

The condition of having a body mass index (BMI) that is higher than the BMI considered appropriate for a given height that occurs due to a complex combination of behavioral, genetic, metabolic, and environmental factors.

Question 8

Psychological variables

Answer 8

The collection of factors that can affect or alter a person’s coping and mental health.

Question 9

Psychology

Answer 9

A scientific approach to gathering, quantifying, analyzing, and interpreting data on why people act as they do; it provides insight into varied forms of human behavior and related mental and physical processes.

Question 10

Rehabilitation psychologists

Answer 10

The restoration of a person to normal or near-normal function after a physical or mental illness, including chemical addiction.

Question 11

What are the job prospects for psychologists?

Answer 11

Best for those with a doctoral degree in an applied speciality (health or counseling) and people with a specialist or a doctoral degree in school psychology.

More competitive for people who have master’s degrees, unless they go into industrial-organizational psychology.

Very limited for people with a bachelor’s degree.