exam 1 Flashcards
(18 cards)
What are the 4 d’s of ab psych?
danger, deviance, distress, dysfunction
how was mental illness viewed in ancient prehistoric times?
The work of evil spirits, the mind was a battleground b/w good & evil, ab psych was a victory by evil spirits and the cure was to force the demon from the person’s body. This view may have begun in the Stone Age. Ex: exorcism
What was trephination?
A treatment for mental illness a half-million years ago in the stone age where a stone instrument or trephine was used to cut a circle in the skull to release evil spirits causing the problem.
500 BC to 500 AD, green & romans taught that illness had NATURAL causes. Who was the father of modern medicine who taught this?
Hippocrates
What did hipppocrates believe to be the culprit of mental illness and physical?
Natural physical causes, brain pathology that resulted from an imbalance of four fluids.
What were the 4 body fluids according to hippocates?
Humors: yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm
When did demonology return?
Europe in the middle ages 500 to 1350 AD
When was the rise of asylums?
The Renaissance 1400 to 1700
Who was the first physician to specialiize in mental illness?
German doctor Johann Weyer- believed the mind to be sick just like bdoy. Founder of mondern psychopathology
Why were asylums created?
private homes and community residences could only fit so many and medical hospitals were too few and too smal.. they converted hospitals and monasteries into asylums, instituions to care for the mentally ill.
Why were asylums bad?
The begining inention was to provide good care but they began to overflow where pts were kept in filthy conditions and treated cruellly.
What is an asylum?
An institution that became popular in the 1500s, 16th century to care for mentally ill, became virtual prisons
What was moral treatment?
Pine and Tuke in late 1700s argued that mental illness treatment should have moral guidance and humane and respectful techniques that caught on in Europe and US
Who is most responsible for early spread of moral treatment in US and spread of moral treatment?
Benjamin Rush, 1813, physican at Penn Hospital
Who was responsible for turning asylums into state hospitals?
1887 Boston school tracher Dorothea Dix made humane care a public and political concern in the US. She went to congress to call for reform in asylums that led to new laws and greater govt funding to improve mental illness treatment. Each state was made responsible for developing public state mental hospitals for moral treatment.
What was the somatogenic persepctive?
moral movement in 1800s are ab psych has physcial causes
What was the psychogenic perspective?
moral movement in 1800s where ab psych is causedby psychological reasons
When did researchers discover psychotropic meds?
1950s, drugs first called antidepressants and antianxiety. This led to deinstitutionalization
