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Psych 1.1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mental health continuum includes | Emotional problems or concerns, and illness/mental illness |
| What are the traits of mental health | Rational thinking, communication skills, learning, emotional growth, resilience, and self esteem. |
| Resilience definition | Ability and capacity to secure resources needed to support well-being |
| Diathesis Stress model What does diathesis represent and what does stress represent | Diathesis represents biological predisposition and stress represents environmental stresses or trauma. |
| What is the most accepted explanation of mental illness | Diathesis stress model |
| Can people with schizophrenia recover? | Even those with serious illnesses such as schizophrenia recover. |
| Surgeon general reported what about mental health | Mental health is fundamental to overall health, and there are effective treatments. |
| NAMI stands for what | National alliance on mental illness. |
| Decade of the brin was what years? what did it do? | Last decade of the 1900s, increased awareness of neuroscience and brain research. |
| Human Genome Project did what? | Strengthened biological and genetic explanations for psychiatric conditions. |
| Quality Improvement involves | Monitoring outcomes |
| Informatics | Technology |
| What are the QSEN competencies | Patient centered care, teamwork and collaboration, EBP, QI, Safety, and informatics |
| Mental health parity act (1996) required what of insurance companies | To provide equal coverage for psychiatric disorders. |
| Patient Protection and affordable care act did what | Gave coverage for uninsured americans through expanded medicare. |
| Wellstone domerici parity act (2008), who is it for? what does it do? | For group health plans with more than 50 employees. Any plan providing mental health coverage must be equal to other conditions. |
| Incidence | Number of new cases in a given time |
| Prevelance | Amount of people suffering in this given time |
| What is the incidence and prevelance of a common cold? | High incidence, low prevalence |
| What is the incidence and prevelance of chronic diseases? | Low incidence |
| Schizophrenia is typically comorbid with what condition? | Diabetes due to side effects of antipsychotic medications. |