Introduction to Psychiatry I Flashcards
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What type of disorder is associated with significant distress or disability to a patient’s life?
Mental Disorder
Chlorpromazine, or Thorazine, was the first psychotropic medication used. What type of qualities did this medication have?
sedative qualities
Chlorpromazine, or Thorazine, was the first psychotropic medication used. What two aspects of disorders did this medication treat?
Chlorpromazine controls the signs and symptoms of a patients disease.
Chlorpromazine, or Thorazine, was the first psychotropic medication used. Permitted patients to leave what establishment and rejoin the community?
Asylums
Chlorpromazine, or Thorazine, was the first psychotropic medication used. This allowed patients to rejoin their families in the community. What was a negative side effect?
Increase rise in outpatient cost for treatment of their disorder
President Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Center Law. This sponsored the building of facilities that had a milieu effect. What did the environmental institutions resemble, instead of a sterile asylum?
Internal environment resembled a social setting
The Medicare Modernization Act and Medicaid acts extended health coverage to all American’s over what age? Also provided healthcare services to individuals with what?
65 years. Disabilities.
Overtime, the government moved to de-instituitonalized psychiatric hospitals. What did unintentional outcome occurred as a result of this?
Increase in the homeless population
What does the term criminalization of the mentally ill mean?
The mentally ill were being incarcerated
What does psychiatrization of criminal behavior mean?
Criminals were malingering, or pretending to have symptoms of psychiatric disorders, to avoid prosecution and sentencing into prisons.
What national alliance corrected the disparity in the health care coverage between medicine related disorders and psychiatric related disorders?
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
The Public Law 102-321 established grants for states to fund community health services exclusively for patients with what type of illness who were unable to pay for care?
Serious mental illness
Definition of a serious mental illness. What type of interference must be present?
Substantial
Definition of a serious mental illness. How many major life activities must be affected?
One or more major life activities.
What model defines normality by the absence of pathology and defines abnormality as what the patient “has”?
The Disease Model
What model defines normality by number, such as, what a patient is in terms of gradation and quantifications that identifies the typical or most common heavers among a group of people as being normal for that group?
The Dimension Model
In the dimension model, normality exists in what area of the standard curve?
Area under the curve
In the dimension model, abnormality exists in what area of the standard curve?
Tails of the curve
Which model states that normality and abnormality is an aggregate of development, social learning, behavioral, and psychoanalytic development?
The Self Model
Which area of the self model states that normality is determined by chronological maturation? This essentially describes what the person becomes.
Developmental
Abraham Maslow was a notable developmental theorist. He stated that normality is attained by mastering what of needs?
Hierarchy of needs
Jean Piaget was a notable developmental theorist. He stated that normality is attained by what process? This process describes that children increase the capacity to understand their world.
Maturation
Jean Paiget states that there are four stages of normal development which children go through. Which describes the stage where children different self from objects and achieve object permanence?
Sensori-Motor.
Jean Paiget states that there are four stages of normal development which children go through. What operational stage describes when language is learned to represent objects?
Pre-operational
