Exam 1: Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Historical Perspectives

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In yoga, detachment of the mind from the senses is known as:

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The World Health Organization's definition of mental health includes all of the following, except:

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Identify the key criteria of Tengland's model of mental health.

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In Tengland's model of mental health the criteria are as follows: (1) ability to have a high degree of correct memory; (2) ability to correctly perceive various stimuli; (3) exhibit a high degree of rationality; (4) have self-knowledge; (5) exhibit flexibility; (6) ability to experience emotions; (7) ability to feel empathy; (8) have self-esteem and self-confidence; (9) demonstrate the ability to communicate cognitive information; (10) identify what is appropriate in a communication; and (11) ability to cooperate.

Deinstitutionalization, the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health service for those diagnosed with mental disorder or developmental disability, first began in the 1920s.

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Managed care refers to a system of financing and providing health care that seeks to cut costs and improve the quality of care.

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Benjamin Rush suggested that the mentally ill could be cured by holding rods filled with iron filings in water.

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The model of mental health in which mental health is at one end and mental illness is at the other end is known as:

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Dorothea Lynde Dix was the author of A Mind That Found Itself.

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Emil Kraepelin, a Portuguese neurologist, first introduced the psychosurgical technique of lobotomy.

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In the tridosha theory of disease in Ayurveda, the three doshas, or humors, are:

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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.

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Describe the contributions of Emil Kraepelin and Sigmund Freud in the field of mental health.

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The Roman physician who differentiated between different types of insanity, such as those that are sad, those that are hilarious, and those that are violent and rebellious, was:

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During the Dark Ages, the Arabs, borrowing from the Greeks and Romans, developed their own medical system, known as:

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The following phrases describe various terms in mental health. Match the description with the term. -The process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health service for those diagnosed with mental disorders or developmental disabilities

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The following phrases describe various terms in mental health. Match the description with the term. -An approach to understanding mental disorders in terms of the biological functions of the nervous system

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All of the following are phases generated by yang and yin, except:

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Describe Jahoda's model of mental health.

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Alois Alzheimer classified hundreds of mental disorders.

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The following phrases describe various contributions by mental health leaders. Match the description with the personality. -A French neurologist who is nicknamed "the Napoleon of the neuroses"

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