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OTD 317 Exam 1 Study Guide Solutions
Early practices of MH in Medieval times - ANSWER✔✔-looking at blood, phlegm, yellow/black bile as an
indication of MH; personal religious beliefs influenced dx/ treatment
MH care before 1900s - ANSWER✔✔--used restraint chairs
-"hospital for the insane"
MH care early 1900s - ANSWER✔✔--more moral treatment
-provided work/ occupations
-removed restraints
-encouraged participation
mental hygiene movement - ANSWER✔✔-Mid-19th-century effort to improve care of the mentally
disordered by informing the public of their mistreatment.
Adolf Meyer - ANSWER✔✔-psychiatrist who presented his paper on mental hygiene at a conference
Clifford Beers - ANSWER✔✔--Described own mental collapse in A Mind That Found Itself
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-Began campaign for reform
-lived with anxiety/ depression which spearheaded the mental hygiene movement
1920 Rehab Act - ANSWER✔✔-federal program; provides vocational assistance for people whose
disabilities were a result of war (including mental illnesses)
Americans with Disabilities Act - ANSWER✔✔-Passed by Congress in 1991, this act banned
discrimination against the disabled in employment and mandated easy access to all public and
commerical buildings.
Olmstead Decision - ANSWER✔✔-decision passed by supreme court ruling against forced long term
institutionalization
What sparked Olmstead Decision? - ANSWER✔✔-Two women with mental illness and developmental
disability were voluntarily admitted to a state run psych unit. Eventually MH professionals recommended
they be moved to a community-based program but the women stayed confined for YEARS, they
eventually filed a suit under ADA
Recovery movement - ANSWER✔✔--2000s civil rights movement
-began in response to MH care system that supported social inequities and discrimination, that hindered
community inclusion and recovery
-started by consumers, led by society
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