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Mental Heatlh
Mental Health - Quiz 1
Question | Answer |
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The ability to cope with and adjust to the recurrent stresses of living in an acceptable way. | Mental health |
A disturbance in one's ability to cope effectively. | Mental illness |
Surveyed conditions of mental hospitals in the United States, Canada and Scotland. | Dorothea Dix |
Wrote a book that started the mental hygiene movement. | Clifford Beers |
Said life was a dynamic equilibrium maintained by the soul. | Plato |
Wrote the first American textbook on psychiatry. | Benjamin Rush |
Viewed mental illness as the result of an imbalance of humors. | Hippocrates |
Freed the mentally ill in France from their chains. | Philippe Pinel |
Which legislative act called for a neighborhood-based mental health care delivery system? | Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 |
Which legislative act dramatically reduced federal funding for mental health & illness care? | Omnibus Budget Reconcilliation Act of 1981 |
Medical costs covered by a "third-party" usually an insurance co. or the state or federal government. | Third-party payment |
A netword of physicians, hospitals & clinics that agree to provide care for different organizations at a discount. | Preferred Provider Organization |
Deliver health care to enrolled clients who pay a fixed price. | Health Maintenance Organization |
Classifications of illnesses - Payment for care was based on these groups rather than payment for each individual service. | Diagnostic-related group |
Serves as one's personal basis for right or wrong behaviors | Morals |
Power to which one has just claim | Rights |
To do no harm | Nonmaleficence |
Shared set of rules that govern right behavior | Ethics |
Controls by which a society governs itself | Laws |
A group of people who share distinct physical characteristics | Race |
Learned behavior patterns with shared values system | Culture |
Customs and cultural habits of a group | Ethnicity |
An oversimplified mental picture of a cultural group | Stereotype |
An expected pattern of behavior associated with a certain position or rank | Role |
Based on a person's need to search for meaning and values in life. | Logotherapy |
People learn by observing the outcomes of various events and then comparing themselves with others. | Social learning theory |
Uses dream analysis and free association to uncover unconscious conflicts. | Psychoanalysis |
Used by therapists to define positive behaviors and develop programs specific reinforcements to change the specific behaviors | Behavior modification |
Teaches clients how to develop more successful daily living skills | Coping skills therapy |
Describes physical responses of the body to stress and the processes by which they adapt | Stress adaptation theory |
A process described as the act of mentally rehearsing an activity before actually engaging in the activity | Covert modeling |
The concept of self is developed through interactions with other people | Sociocultural theory |
Helps clients to uncover how their personifications (distorted images) affect their lives | Interpersonal therapy |
The client directs the therapeutic relationship using the therapist as a guide to self-understanding | Client-centered therapy |
Teaches clients to express themselves in a constructive, non-aggressive way | Assertiveness training |
Goal of therapy is self-actualization, not cure or relief of symptoms | Actualizing therapy |
Approaches human behavior from a helping point of view | Nursing theories |