PSY 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: American Psychiatric Association, Mental Disorder, Moral Treatment
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Demonic model: view of mental illness in which behaving oddly, hearing voices, or talking to oneself was attributed to evil spirits infesting the body. Medical model: view of mental illness as a result of a physical disorder requiring mental treatment. Asylum: institution for people with mental illnesses created in the 15th century. Placebo effect: improvement resulting from the expectation of improvement. Moral treatment: approach to mental illness calling for dignity, kindness and respect for those with mental illness. Deinstitutionalization: the governmental policy of the 1960s and 1970s that focused on releasing hospitalized psychiatric patients into the community and closing mental hospitals. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: diagnostic system containing the american psychiatric association criteria for mental disorders. Prevalence: percentage of people within a population who have a specific mental disorder. Biopsychosocial approach: interplay of biological, psychological, and social influences. Comorbidity: co-occurrence of two or more diagnoses within the same person.
