Exam 11: Community Mental Health

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What does parity refer to?

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Parity refers to the effort to treat mental health care financing on the same basis as financing for general health care services.

The term created by the managed care industry that applies to mental health and substance abuse care is behavioral health care services.

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Describe the treatment goals for mental disorders.

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Treatment goals for mental disorders are to reduce symptoms,to improve personal and social functioning,to develop and strengthen coping skills,and to promote behaviors that make a person's life better.

The main force that expedited deinstitutionalization was

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More than half of all prison and jail inmates have mental health problems.

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A drug that subdues a mental patient's behavior is referred to as tardive dyskinesia.

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Military service in a combat zone decreases one's risk of experiencing PTSD.

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Provide examples of at least five things that adults with good mental health are able to do.

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The fight or flight reaction can be maintained for a significant length of time by the body.

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The widespread use of lobotomies because unnecessary because of

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)has been banned from use in the United States.

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Explain tertiary prevention in community mental health.

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Deinstitutionalization from state mental hospitals began in the

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Diseases that result from chronic exposure to excess levels of stressors,which produce a General Adaptation Syndrome response are

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In the United States,over two million adults experience homelessness over the course of a year.

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Until recently,the federal government's leadership in community mental health has been substantial.

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Provide two examples of primary prevention in community mental health.

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Chronic nutritional deficiency is a possible cause of mental disorders in some.

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Treatment that involves intensive,individualized services over an indefinite period of time is

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Provide two examples of secondary prevention in community mental health.

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