mental health
- Created by: alliehxtch18
- Created on: 17-05-18 14:01
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- Topic 1- historical context of mental health
- historical views
- animism
- a supernatural explanation
- evil spirits have taken possession of an individual
- some skulls were found from Paleolithic Cave Dwellers which have holes in as threphining was performed to provide an exit for demons or evil spirits
- can be possessed by spirits such as ancestors, animals, gods, heroes and of victims whose wrongs had not been resolved
- humourism
- a somatogenic explanation
- metal health was dependant on the balance of four humours or fluids in the body (blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlem
- if the person was sluggish and dull - the body has too much phlegm too much black bile - melancholia too much yellow bile - explained irritability and anxiousness too much blood - changeable temperament
- Used leeches and purgatives as treatments
- animalism
- patients were chained to the walls or kept on leashes. they were confined to the cellar and their scalps were shaved and blistered. they were bled to a point of syncope and purged until they could not yield anything but mucas
- believed madness resulted from animalism. that the insane had lost the capacity to distinguish humans from beasts.
- treatment was to restore reason by causing fear
- animism
- defining abnormality
- Rosenhan and Seligman
- 1. statistical infrequency.. if behaviour is common then its normal, if behaviour is rare then its abnormal
- 2. failure of function adequately.. classed as abnormal if they are unable to cope with the demands of every day life
- 3. deviation from social norms.. those who break norms and values are classed as abnormal
- 3. deviation from idea mental health.. this can include feeling positive, having self discipline and having positive social interacts
- categorising mental disorders
- DSM-5
- the DSM is mainly used in America, it is a system which contains more than 300 disorders
- it tries to place them in chronological lifespan order. (how early on you are likely to get them)
- the dysfunctional behaviours are organised into 22 categories. examples are obsessive compulsive eating disorders, feeding and eating disorders and sleep wake disorders
- for each disorder, DSM-5 includes details on ..
- gender related diagnostic issues
- diagnostic criterea
- culture related diagnostic issues
- historical views
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