FINAL Soc of Mental Health Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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FINAL Soc of Mental Health Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
-some people escape detection
-psychiatrists biases can affect the validity of findings
-the admission to psychiatric facilities on inpatient or outpatient basis cant account for true
prevalence of mental disorder because they don'...
FINAL Soc of Mental Health Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
-some people escape detection
-psychiatrists biases can affect the validity of findings
-the admission to psychiatric facilities on inpatient or outpatient basis cant account for true
prevalence of mental disorder because they don't include untreated cases that fail to come to the
attention of mental health reportings - answer✔✔What are some difficulties in assessing the true
prevalence of mental disorders in society?
-the results of mental studies before the 50's only investigated the treated cases of mental
disorders and based data on hospital admissions ignoring the untreated individuals.
-the following studies published after 50's aimed to attain data using socioeconomic index
measures and questionnaires ranking occupational prestige attainment in life and level of wealth
-the studies compared private and public mental hospitals and incorporated the remaining
population - answer✔✔Why has there been a substantial difference between the results of mental
health studies conducted before the 1950's and those published later?
-prevalence of mental disorder in general population is greater among lower socioeconomic
groups and in cities
-mental disorders are concentrated in major urban centers among the less educated and less
affluent
-3 best indicators of true prevalence are social class, urban rural location, and gender -
answer✔✔Discuss the conclusions from the classic study on the true prevalence of mental illness
by social class
-people with highest SES upper class show best overall health while the nest level of upper
middle class shows next best health and so on
-Education is the strongest single predictor of good health including mental health
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-NCS indicate the lifetime prevalence of mental illness in the US is high and it is not certain that
this is indeed the case - answer✔✔What do the results of the ECS and NCS tell us about the
relationship between social class and mental illness today?
- answer✔✔Societal reaction
-suggests that members of the lower class are subjected to greater adversity and stress as a result
of a deprived life situation and have to cope with this deprivation with fewer resources
-it may be that the higher level of stress generated by lower class living conditions more readily
triggers genetic predispositions toward mental disorder
-stress affects the emotional stability of the poor more severely than it does the upper class -
answer✔✔social causation
-there is more mental disorder in the lower class because mentally ill persons tend to drift
downward in the social structure or mentally healthy individuals in the lower class tend to be
upwardly mobile thus leaving behind residue of mentally ill persons.
-social selection hyp might be better to explain the social class schizo relationship and social
causation hyp might be more useful in explaining the relationship with depression and substance
use disorder - answer✔✔Social selection
1. Autonomy v conformity
2. Internal/external symptoms
3. Fatalism - answer✔✔3 Features of social class socialization that may contribute to social class
differences in mental health
- answer✔✔How does psychiatric treatment differ by social class
Women: internalize feelings by turning them inward on themselves resulting in more anxiety and
depression. they are also more prone to anxiety and depressive disorders and those condtions are
more controlled with psychotropic drugs and are less threatening to society thereby allowing
patients with those disorders to have a higher probability of being treated on an outpatient basis
Men: are more likely to be hospitalized in public facilities because mental disorder in males is
seen as more serious, threatening and disabling. Men externalize their distresses through greater
substance use/addictive and personality disorders. - answer✔✔Difference in type of treatment of
mental disorder for men and women
-state of depression and anxiety in women may be influenced by hormonal changes in the body
such as menopause and menstruation
-women becomes more depressed at menopause than any other any time
-Speculative theory: Y (male) sex chromosome is an aggressive gene
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