AB PSC Q1 STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
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What is an important factor that needs to be taken into account when defining abnormal? Answers :Power structures; contribute to how abnormal is defined
In the middle ages, what were mental issues tied to? Answers :Morality Mental issues were moral issues
What are examples of how mental illness was tied to morals in the middle ages? Answers :You had made a deal with the devil
Sins were consuming you/you had done something wrong
What ideas did benhamin rush contribute to the area of mental illness? Answers :Suggested that it was a disease of the mind (not demons)
What did Dorothea Dix do? Answers :Started some of the 1st mental assylums
How did the govt initially keep track of mental illness in the 1840s? Answers :In census had category for idiocy/insanity
Who was in charge of tracking mental illness in 1844? Answers :Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (modern day APA) In the late 1880s how did we change how we tracked mental illness? Answers :Started organizing mental illness into categories instead of just insanity/idiocy
Who headed the initial first movements of organizing mental illness into categories? Answers :Frederick H. Wines in his "Report on the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes of the population of the United States" 1888
What were the categories suggested by Frederick Wines? Answers :7 diff ones
Dementia
Dipsomania (alcoholism)
Epilepsy
Mania
Melancholia (depression)
monomania (strong interest to something)
Paresis (paralyzed)
After Frederick Wines categories was the next big change in how we viewed mental illness? Answers :Developed first DSM in 1952
What 3 thoughts did Thomas Szasz suggest about mental illness? Answers :Its jut a convenient label for behavior that is unpleasant Abnormal behavior is a social phenomenon and may be a normal response to the environment
Indv who have mental illness dont suffer from illnesses but rather problems in living
What did Jerome Wakefield say defines a mental disorder? Answers :It results from failure of an internal mechanism to work right
It causes harm to the person or others (based on cultural standards)
Harmful dysfunction is what it essentially is
Why were Wakefields thoughts important to the field? Answers :One of the first people to suggest that culture needs to be taken into account when defining a mental disorder
What did Lori Marino suggest about mental disorders? Answers :Some disorders are functional responses to danger/loss
^they are there for a reason thus functional ie: being avoidant may be important for someone with continued trauma
What are some characteristics of the DSM-5? Answers :It is a medical model (something is wrong with someone we need to fix it)
Disorders are categorical (depressed or not)
indv focused
How are disorders categorized in the DSM-5? Answers :By type of current distress
SOLUTION!!
What is an important factor that needs to be taken into account when defining abnormal? Answers :Power structures; contribute to how abnormal is defined
In the middle ages, what were mental issues tied to? Answers :Morality Mental issues were moral issues
What are examples of how mental illness was tied to morals in the middle ages? Answers :You had made a deal with the devil
Sins were consuming you/you had done something wrong
What ideas did benhamin rush contribute to the area of mental illness? Answers :Suggested that it was a disease of the mind (not demons)
What did Dorothea Dix do? Answers :Started some of the 1st mental assylums
How did the govt initially keep track of mental illness in the 1840s? Answers :In census had category for idiocy/insanity
Who was in charge of tracking mental illness in 1844? Answers :Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (modern day APA) In the late 1880s how did we change how we tracked mental illness? Answers :Started organizing mental illness into categories instead of just insanity/idiocy
Who headed the initial first movements of organizing mental illness into categories? Answers :Frederick H. Wines in his "Report on the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes of the population of the United States" 1888
What were the categories suggested by Frederick Wines? Answers :7 diff ones
Dementia
Dipsomania (alcoholism)
Epilepsy
Mania
Melancholia (depression)
monomania (strong interest to something)
Paresis (paralyzed)
After Frederick Wines categories was the next big change in how we viewed mental illness? Answers :Developed first DSM in 1952
What 3 thoughts did Thomas Szasz suggest about mental illness? Answers :Its jut a convenient label for behavior that is unpleasant Abnormal behavior is a social phenomenon and may be a normal response to the environment
Indv who have mental illness dont suffer from illnesses but rather problems in living
What did Jerome Wakefield say defines a mental disorder? Answers :It results from failure of an internal mechanism to work right
It causes harm to the person or others (based on cultural standards)
Harmful dysfunction is what it essentially is
Why were Wakefields thoughts important to the field? Answers :One of the first people to suggest that culture needs to be taken into account when defining a mental disorder
What did Lori Marino suggest about mental disorders? Answers :Some disorders are functional responses to danger/loss
^they are there for a reason thus functional ie: being avoidant may be important for someone with continued trauma
What are some characteristics of the DSM-5? Answers :It is a medical model (something is wrong with someone we need to fix it)
Disorders are categorical (depressed or not)
indv focused
How are disorders categorized in the DSM-5? Answers :By type of current distress
