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What is easy to accept with people that have mental health problems?
They have a hard time controlling their feelings thoughts and behavior
What is harder to understand with people who have mental disorders?
That they have trouble everyday activity the other people take for granted
What is the history of mental illness?
significant impaired in any area if fu
What happened in the middle ages with mental illness?
Its was wide spread, some due to birthing conditions such as not being born in the hospitals, with a doctor or even antiseptic problems occurs due to this.
how did people feel about mental illness in the middle ages?
they thought they were holy and they shaved crosses into the heads and tide them up to the church pew they thought they were speaking in tongues. The cross were shaved in the heads to identify that the were of god. But if they thought they were evil that when they tied them to the pews.
what happend in the 16-18th renaissance century?
thats were the asylums and prisons came about.
what happened in the 1850's existentialism?
In this era man was responsible for his own destiny, make own choices.
what was the average age of life in that time?
age 35
what was the character that had mental illness was?
the hunch back of Notre dame, anyone that looked funny was characterize as mentally ill
how did the word lunatic came about?
the moon doesn't influence behavior. lunatic were keep @ home during the day and let out @ night , but they were more noticeable when there was a full moon, more visibility. This word came about in the colonial times.
what happen in the mid 19th century ?
the rise of the nursing field. hand washing began and people were put to sleep to have amputation. The civil war happened and there was a lot of trauma that affected them mentally. opium was used for stress. They were put to work in farms it would take their mind off of the horrible effects of the war.
what type of psych theorist was freud and erikson?
psychoanalytic
who expose willow brooks in long island NY?
Geraldo Rivera in the early 1970's
what is object relations?
it is an unconscious drive, talk therapy . change mind set , stage specific
what theorist were psychoanalytic?
which was object relations
freud and erikson
they believe in stages
what is psychoanalytic
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what is drive states?
unconscious drive to maintain ones needs. food, love comfort. the amygdala and the limbic system is responsible for this
what is stages?
overcomes conflict or problems
what is defense mechanism?
unconscious it is anger and hostility
what is dream objects?
use to talk about problems. The use of symbols to used to reveal what there feeling were, this is conscious state
what was freud really big on?
the ID-ego- super ego
must go be in stages if not there will be conflict
what is directive ?
the therapist takes control of the session
what is non directive
the therapist is not in control of the session, everyone is an equal
who were the behavior theorist?
Pavlov and skinner
what is operant conditioning?
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