Exam 14: Mental Disorders

The ______ definition of mental health relies on the individual judgment of a practitioner.

____ persons experience mental disorders of all sorts more often than others do.

Anorexia and bulimia are more likely to occur among which type of person?

Bulimia involves an episodic pattern of binge eating marked by rapid consumption of food in a short time often followed by forced vomiting or laxative abuse.

Anxiety resembles fear in many ways.

The clinical definition of mental health subjects conceptions of mental health to the value judgments of practitioners.

______ argued that mental disorders are a result of playing the role of a mentally disordered person.

The normative definition of mental health is based on three important sociological criteria. Which of the following is NOT one of those criteria?

Mental patients of _____ origin tend to perceive the mentally ill in magical terms.

Which of the following is true of the DSM?

______ provides the strongest predictive power for stress among men.

In terms of mental illness, labeling theory has the most empirical support.

Community mental health programs are part of the ______ movement.

What are the basic social patterns of mental illness based on the variables of gender, age, race/ethnicity, and marital status?

What is a significant reason for the decline of mental hospitals?

The medical literature began documenting instances of anorexia during which time period?

Some measure mental disorders by focusing on numerical averages that evaluate the incidence of various behaviors, with the highest scores highlighting the practices in the middle of the range, which then represent normality. What type of definition is used for this mental disorder method?

Most anorexics and bulimics:

When societies develop a shared conception of the criteria for insanity, Scheff calls this __________________.

_____ disorders are those thought to be caused by specific organisms, brain injuries, or other physiological factors.