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Freud ✔✔ Freud- psychoanalysis, believed that the forces both
within and outside the personality were responsible for mental
illness.
Plato ✔✔ Recognized life as a dynamic balance maintained by
the soul. Rational soul resides in the head irrational soul is found
in the heart and abdomen
Dix ✔✔ Dix- Surveyed asylum sand jails for 20 years and
presented her findings to anyone who would listen, raised
enough money for 30 mental health care facilities.
Pinel ✔✔ Pinel- Liberated patient from their chains, and
advocated acceptance of the mentally ill as human beings in
need of medical assistance, nursing care and social services.
Beers ✔✔ Beers- Spent 3 years, wrote a book that would set
the wheels for the mental hygiene movement.
Hippocrates ✔✔ Hippocrates- viewed mental illness as a result
of an imbalance of humors, the fundamentals of water air fire
and earth.
Treatment and medications for mental illness in the 1930's ✔✔
Insulin Therapy for schizophrenia, ECT for severe depression,
, lobotomy for violent behaviors, amphetamines for lifting the
spirits of depressed people .
Hill Burton act ✔✔ 1937, funded the construction of
psychiatric units throughout the US.
National mental health act of 1946 ✔✔ Provided funding for
programs in research, training of mental health professionals and
expansion of state mental health facilities.
Treatment for Bipolar disorder ✔✔ Lithium carbonate
Outcome of mental health systems act of 1980 ✔✔ funding
was gone, insurance no longer covered
Components of the case management system ✔✔
Psychosocial, rehabilitation, consultation resource linkage,
advocacy, therapy, crisis intervention.
Assertive community treatment team client meetings frequency
✔✔ client meetings frequency- 2-4 times per week
Responsibility of each of the mental health care systems team
members ✔✔ Psychiatrist- administration and
planning;diagnostic and medical function are main tasks
Psychologist- Performs diagnostic tests; treats clients
Nurse- ADLs, coordinates activities, oversees techs and
assistants
Social worker- evaluates families, studies causes of illness,
admits new clients.