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- ✔✔Diagram the family process in the decision to seek professional help
- ✔✔How does psychiatric treatment differ by social class
- ✔✔Societal reaction
- ✔✔What 3 basic conditions define the context for health care decisions?
- ✔✔What are the four stages of the prepatient process?
- ✔✔What do relationships between the mentally ill and their loved ones reveal about
the social nature of our obligations and responsibilities?
- ✔✔What is the single most important factor influencing rehospitalization?
-adjustment to the outside world: if they have families who care for them and jobs and
awaiting them they are able to make a smooth transition in the community
-but if they have been there too long they may become older when they get out and are
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along because their family might have died off they have a hard time getting
reestablished in life they end up living in slum area housing - ✔✔How does the family
of the ex-patient influence their rehabilitation?
-Adolescence: experiences do not have uniform consequences for mental health later
in life, negative childhood experiences especially separation from parents, violence,
can produce traumatic emotional effects lasting into adulthood. Most prevalent in
adolescence is schizo, substance use, and anxiety disorder
Adults: People in their 40's and 50's were mostly free of depression, Middle aged
adults were closets to sense of mastery or control over life situation. highest
prevalence of mental disorder is generally found among adults 25-34 - ✔✔Mental
health diffs between adolescence and adults
-among religions there are certain restrictions, Catholics have less stress cause they
know how to cope - ✔✔Mental illness among Catholics
, -Blacks have more depression in young adulthood, lower prevalence of depressive and
substance/addictive disorders, people treat skin color differently and it produced
disparities between blacks and whites, medium skin tone color experience less
discrimination. greater psych distress among blacks with low income occupational
status
-lower class blacks have higher levels of psych distress
-they use less mental health services less than whites
-sometimes in the workplace they are the token minority person in a leadership
position. And there are racists attitudes and racial segmentation
-social class does a better job at explaining mental illness among racial minorities than
race itself - ✔✔Mental health of African Americans
-cancer patients using CAM reported psychological benefits such as hope and
optimism
-for hypnosis evidence that shows that both relaxation techniques and hypnosis can
effectively reduce anxiety and help patients with chronic pain, insomnia and panic
disorders
-Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches people to alter negative feelings to foster
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healthy emotions and thoughts and practices such as yoga and tai chi have reportedly
beneficial physiological responses such as reducing anxiety and stress - ✔✔Benefits
of CAM (Complementary Alternative Medicine)
-depersonalization origins had 2 factors: 1. The attitudes held by society toward the
mentally ill including those who treat them as something that is unattractive despite
benevolent intentions toward them 2. The hierarchical structure of the mental hospital
which facilitated depersonalization in that those at the top had the least contact with
patients and their behavior was a model for the rest of the staff - ✔✔Sick role, hospital
patient role, and mental hospital role
-False commitment: a long time ago a person could be committed just on the word of
someone else, supposedly responsible and of sound mind that they need
hospitalization. Sometimes husbands who have their wives committed without any
evidence because her husband wanted to get rid of her
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