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mental health - Answer emotional and social well-being, including one's psychological resources for
dealing with day-to-day problems of life
mental illness - Answer a collective term for all diagnosable mental disorders
mental disorders - Answer health conditions characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior
associated with distress and/or impaired functioning
major depression - Answer an affective disorder characterized y a dysphoric mood, usually depression,
or loss of interest or pleasure in almost all usual activities or pastimes
cultural competence - Answer service-provider's degree of compatibility with the specific culture of the
population served, for example, proficiency in language other than English, familiarity with cultural
idioms of distress or body language, folk beliefs, and expectations regarding treatment procedures and
likely outcomes
general adaptation syndrome (GAS) - Answer the complex physiological responses resulting from
exposure to stressors
fight or flight reaction - Answer an alarm reaction that prepares one physiologically for sudden action
diseases of adaptation - Answer diseases resulting from chronic exposure to excess levels of stressors
that produce a general adaptation syndrome response
moral treatment - Answer a nineteenth century treatment in which people with mental illness were
removed from the everyday life stressors of their home environments and given asylum in a rural setting,
including rest, exercise, fresh air, and amusements
, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - Answer method of treatment for mental disorders involving the
administration of electric current to induce a coma or convulsions
lobotomy - Answer surgical severance of nerve fibers of the brain by incision
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - Answer the nation's leading mental health research
agency, housed in the National Institutes of Health
deinstitutionalization - Answer the process of discharging, on a large scale, patients from state mental
hospitals to less restrictive community settings
chlorpromazine (thorazine) - Answer the first and most famous antipsychotic drug, introduced in 1954
under the brand name Thorazine
Neuroleptic drugs - Answer pharmaceuticals that reduce nervous activity; another term for
antipsychotic drugs
chemical straitjacket - Answer a drug that subdues a mental patient's behavior
tardive dyskinesia - Answer irreversible, involuntary, and abnormal movements of the tongue, mouth,
arms, and legs, which can result from long-term use of certain antipsychotic drugs
Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Act - Answer a law that made the
federal government responsible for assisting in the funding of mental health facilities and services
community mental health center (CMHC) - Answer a fully staffed center originally funded by the federal
government that provides comprehensive mental health services to local populations
transinstitutionalization - Answer transferring patients from one type of public institution to another,
usually as a result of policy change