OT200 Psychosocial Practice
Exam Study Guide
care - Answer to see to an individuals needs
recovery - Answer a process of change through which individuals improve their health
and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
treatment - Answer medical services or care given to a client for a disorder or injury
Rehabilitation - Answer the action of restoring an individual to health or normal life
through therapy
Mental Health History: 1600s-1940s - Answer The care model.
* Poor Houses, Alms Houses
*Provided basic care.
* No Institutions devoted to specifically to caring for or treating the mentally ill.
Mental Health History: 1950s-1970s - Answer The Treatment Model
* Establishment of Mental Institutions
Mental Health History: Rehabilitation 1980s-2000s - Answer A change in focus to a more
community based approach to therapy.
Mental Health History: Mid-Late 1800's - Answer State Established Hospitals
After Dorthea Dix exposed the inhumane conditions of county run almshouse and
workhouses.
National Mental Health Act of 1946 - Answer Established the National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH)
Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health published "Action For Mental Health"
1961 - Answer Proposed plan for community model of service
Recommended Deinstitutionalization
Westboro State Hospital in Mass. - Answer One of the 1st OTA educational training
programs
Lobotomy Procedure - Answer cut nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the
emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
Thorazine - Answer Antipsychotic
, Major Tranquilizer Drug
Deinstitutionalization - Answer moving people with psychological or developmental
disabilities from highly structured institutions to home- or community-based settings
1960s-1970s
group therapy - Answer Therapist is a facilitator. Utilize insight and support of group
members to help one another.
Psychodrama - Answer group therapy in which a patient expresses feelings by acting
out family and social roles with other patients
group activity - Answer Social, leisure, and vocational skills development. Emphasis on
preparing patients for release into the community
milieu therapy - Answer Therapeutic community in which the entire social environment
surrounding each patient became a therapeutic tool.
Mid 1970s -1990s : Reform of Community Mental Health - Answer Community Support
Program of 1977
Community Support Services
* housing
* income
* employment
* socialization
*counseling
* medical care
* safety
SAMHSA's 10 Guiding Principles of Recovery - Answer Hope
Person-Driven
Many Pathways
Holistic
Peer Support
Relational
Culture
Exam Study Guide
care - Answer to see to an individuals needs
recovery - Answer a process of change through which individuals improve their health
and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
treatment - Answer medical services or care given to a client for a disorder or injury
Rehabilitation - Answer the action of restoring an individual to health or normal life
through therapy
Mental Health History: 1600s-1940s - Answer The care model.
* Poor Houses, Alms Houses
*Provided basic care.
* No Institutions devoted to specifically to caring for or treating the mentally ill.
Mental Health History: 1950s-1970s - Answer The Treatment Model
* Establishment of Mental Institutions
Mental Health History: Rehabilitation 1980s-2000s - Answer A change in focus to a more
community based approach to therapy.
Mental Health History: Mid-Late 1800's - Answer State Established Hospitals
After Dorthea Dix exposed the inhumane conditions of county run almshouse and
workhouses.
National Mental Health Act of 1946 - Answer Established the National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH)
Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health published "Action For Mental Health"
1961 - Answer Proposed plan for community model of service
Recommended Deinstitutionalization
Westboro State Hospital in Mass. - Answer One of the 1st OTA educational training
programs
Lobotomy Procedure - Answer cut nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the
emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
Thorazine - Answer Antipsychotic
, Major Tranquilizer Drug
Deinstitutionalization - Answer moving people with psychological or developmental
disabilities from highly structured institutions to home- or community-based settings
1960s-1970s
group therapy - Answer Therapist is a facilitator. Utilize insight and support of group
members to help one another.
Psychodrama - Answer group therapy in which a patient expresses feelings by acting
out family and social roles with other patients
group activity - Answer Social, leisure, and vocational skills development. Emphasis on
preparing patients for release into the community
milieu therapy - Answer Therapeutic community in which the entire social environment
surrounding each patient became a therapeutic tool.
Mid 1970s -1990s : Reform of Community Mental Health - Answer Community Support
Program of 1977
Community Support Services
* housing
* income
* employment
* socialization
*counseling
* medical care
* safety
SAMHSA's 10 Guiding Principles of Recovery - Answer Hope
Person-Driven
Many Pathways
Holistic
Peer Support
Relational
Culture
