OTD 317 Exam 1 Study Guide
Solutions Updated 2024
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.
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, 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
-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
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Solutions Updated 2024
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.
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, 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
-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
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