Week 10

Question 1

According to the Stirling County Study: Communities Under Stress, what role did ecology play in the etiology of mental illness? (Hint: there are 5)

Answer 1

1. Mental illness higher in disintegrated communities
2. Recent history of disaster
3. Extensive poverty
4. Cultural confusion
5. Rapid social change

Question 2

Mental illness is found to be higher in ___________ communities.

Answer 2

disintegrated

Question 3

Widespread ___________ can contribute to mental illness.

Answer 3

migration

Question 4

Extensive _____________ can contribute to mental illness.

Answer 4

secularization

Question 5

Leonary Pearlin & colleages (1998) compared ___________ rates in people who had become unemployed.

Answer 5

Depression

Question 6

In Leonard Pearlin & colleagues’ 1998 study, those who did NOT develop depression compared themselves _________ with others.

Answer 6

positively

Question 7

Those who did not develop depression in Leonard Pearlin & colleagues’ study reported higher levels of ______________ support.

Answer 7

emotional

Question 8

What type of locus of control did Leonard Pearlin & colleagues (1998) study reveal that individuals who did not develop depression had?

Answer 8

Internal

Question 9

According to Leonard Pearlin & colleages (1998), those who developed depression focused more on ________ and _________ achievements compared to those who did not develop depression.

Answer 9

Economic; monetary

Question 10

During the Asylum era, what was a poorhouse?

Answer 10

A place for people who had no money + were unable to work.

Question 11

During the Asylum era, what was a workhouse?

Answer 11

A place for people who had no money because they could work, but they were choosing not to.

Question 12

It was less than 100 years ago when the last ____________ closed in Canada.

Answer 12

Workhouse

Question 13

Asylums were considered more _________ environments for the ill.

Answer 13

humane

Question 14

How was the growth of the asylum related to capitalism?

Answer 14

It was difficult for those with severe + chronic mental illness to work

Question 15

Deinstitutionalization was brought on by civil _____________.

Answer 15

libertarianism

Question 16

What is civil libertarianism?

Answer 16

Fighting for the freedoms for individuals

Question 17

What was the first effective anti-psychotic medication?

Answer 17

Propiomazine

Question 18

Confidence in newly introduced ____-_______ medication contributed to desinstitutionalization.

Answer 18

Anti-psychotic

Question 19

What was promised during deinstitutionalization but was not delivered?

Answer 19

Community health services

Question 20

List 3 individual costs of deinstitutionalization.

Answer 20

1. Poverty
2. Homelessness
3. Suicide
4. Substance Abuse
5. Imprisonment
6. Violence

Question 21

In homeless populations, who are those most victimized?

Answer 21

Those with psychosis

Question 22

Describe how ‘Family Stress’ resulted from deinstitutionalization?

Answer 22

Families had no education / training, yet they were primarily responsible for taking care of their mentally ill loved one(s)

Question 23

One requirement for successful deinstitutionalization is having a supportive ___________ ___________.

Answer 23

Family network

Question 24

Successful deinstitutionalization relies on an accepting ________________ and adequate community ___________.

Answer 24

community; resources

Question 25

Which requirement for successful deinstitutionalization has no government ever proposed?

Answer 25

Adequate community resources

Question 26

A place to ______ is considered a requirement for successful deinstitutionalization.

Answer 26

live

Question 27

What was designed to address the "revolving door patient?"

Answer 27

Community treatment orders

Question 28

What came after deinstitutionalization?

Answer 28

Community Treatment Orders

Question 29

Community treatment orders are considered what kind of provisions?

Answer 29

Medico-legal provisions

Question 30

What is considered to be an alternative to involuntary hospitalization?

Answer 30

Community Treatment Orders

Question 31

How does one become a candidate for a community treatment order?

Answer 31

If they had been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital or prison

Question 32

Who is the ideal candidate for community treatment orders?

Answer 32

The "revolving door patient"

Question 33

What is the one critique of community treatment orders? (Hint: has to do with having a place to live)

Answer 33

If enough housing was supplied there would be no community treatment orders needed

Question 34

In order to be considered for a community treatment order, there needs to be evidence to show you did well on _______________.

Answer 34

medications

Question 35

What is anosognosia?

Answer 35

When you do not understand you are sick

Question 36

What disorder does anosognosia accompany?

Answer 36

Schizophrenia

Question 37

T/F : If someone with schizophrenia states they see bugs on the wall, you should make sure to tell them there definitely are none.

Answer 37

F

Question 38

What is a contributing factor to why those that are ill do not take their prescribed medication?

Answer 38

Anosognosia

Question 39

Unemployment is a cost of mental illness to ____________.

Answer 39

individuals

Question 40

According to Erving Goffman, ______ is an attribute that is deeply discrediting and characterizes the bearer as tainted and discounted.

Answer 40

Stigma

Question 41

Which disorder has "master status?"

Answer 41

Schizophrenia

Question 42

According to Watters, ________ are a cause for stigma.

Answer 42

Nerves

Question 43

According to Watters, which societies have less stigma surrounding mental disorders?

Answer 43

Where more severe forms of nerves can mean one is experiencing a mental illness

Question 44

Stigma associated with mental disorders is caused by perceiving disorders as _______________, violent, and avoiding one's ________ _______________.

Answer 44

unpredictable; life responsibilities

Question 45

The stigmatization of mental illness can contribute to _____-_______.

Answer 45

self-stigma

Question 46

If an individual only tells some people about their mental disorder and not others, they are experiencing _______-_________.

Answer 46

self-stigma

Question 47

Self-stigma includes distancing oneself from the ________.

Answer 47

label

Question 48

Self-stigma may involve trying to ________ one's mental disorder.

Answer 48

hide

Question 49

If someone is deflecting their mental disorder, what are they doing?

Answer 49

Distancing themselves from the label