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Mental Health Midterm Jersey College |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS |\ |\




Mental health - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔emotional, psychological,
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and social well-being
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Mental illnesses - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Affect a persons,
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thinking, feeling and mood, which can make it difficult to relate to
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others and maintain daily functioning
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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth
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edition(DSM-5) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The current official |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



guidebook for categorizing and diagnosing psychiatric mental
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health disorders in the United States
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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth
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edition(DSM-5) 5 axes - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Axis 1: list the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



psychiatric diagnosis or diagnosis, for example major depressive
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disorder, schizophrenia, and alcohol dependence
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Axis 2: list, personality disorders, and mental retardation to ensure
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long-standing issues that may call occur with the axis 1 disorders,
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such as borderline personality disorder.
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Axis 3: any medical conditions believed to be relevant to the mental
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disorder in question. |\ |\

,Axis 4: reporting psychosocial and environmental problems that
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may affect the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of a mental
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disorder, such as occupational problems, economic problems,
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interpersonal problems with family members |\ |\ |\ |\




Axis 5: called the global assessment of functioning, which gave an
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indication of the persons, best level of psychological, social and
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occupational functioning during the preceding year reading on the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



scale 1 to 100, one indicates persistent danger of severely hurting
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oneself or others, 100 indicates superior functioning
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Myths in misconceptions when it comes to mental illnesses -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- One minute is that to be mentally ill is
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to be different or odd
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- Another misconception is that to be mentally healthy a person
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must be logical and rational at all times
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Prevalence Rate - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The proportion of the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



population with a mental disorder at a given time period. One and
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five adults will experience one or more mental health conditions in
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a year..
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culture-bound syndromes - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Appear only |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



in particular cultures and do not appear globally in all societies or
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parts of the world. For example, one form of mental illness
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recognized in parts of south east Asia is running amok in which
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, someone usually a meal runs around, engaging and furious, almost
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indiscriminate, violent behavior. |\ |\




Pibloktoq, uncontrollable desire to tear off once clothing, and
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expose oneself to severe winter weather. It is recognized form of
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psychological disorder in parts of Greenland, Alaska, and the Arctic
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regions of Canada.
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Anorexia nervosa , psychobiological disorder that entails voluntary
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starvation. This disorder is known well in Europe, North America in
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Australia, but is unheard in other societies.
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stigma - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The negative view or
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stereotypical view of someone with mental illness. It creates
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prejudice and discrimination.
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Conscious mind - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔your current
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awareness, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings
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Preconscious - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Yeah, not currently the
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subject of our attention, but easily accessible with conscious effort
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