Mh-T3: Serious Mental Illness

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Persons with ___ usually have difficulties in multiple areas, including activities of daily living (ADLs; e.g., cooking, hygiene), relationships, social interaction, task completion, communication, leisure activities, remaining safe in the community, finances and budgeting, health maintenance, vocational and academic activities, coping with poverty, stigma, unemployment, and inadequate housing.

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serious mental illness (SMI)

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___ is the propensity to view and respond to others negatively based on a belief that they possess undesirable traits

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Stigma

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Issues Confronting Those with SMI'

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Establishing a meaningful life

Comorbid conditions: CHD, obesity, diabetes, etc

Social issues

Economic challenges

Treatment issues

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A concept focused on managing patients’ deficits and helping them learn to live with their illnesses; criticized by the consumer movement as being paternalistic and focused on living with disability rather than on quality of life and eventual cure.

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rehabilitation

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A concept focused on managing patients’ deficits and helping them learn to live with their illnesses; criticized by the consumer movement as being paternalistic and focused on living with disability rather than on quality of life and eventual cure.

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rehabilitation

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A patient’s inability to realize that he or she is ill, which is caused by the illness itself.

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anosognosia

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Educating about mental health topics (e.g., psychotropic drugs) and building skills (e.g., conflict resolution).

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psychoeducation

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Providing mental health care coverage equal to that for physical health care

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parity

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Before ___, the mass shift of patients with SMIs out of state hospitals and into the community that began in the 1960s and continued through the 1970s, many people lived long term in state psychiatric hospitals

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deinstitutionalization

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An intensive type of case management for people with serious, persistent psychiatric symptoms. Repeated hospitalizations are reduced through a multidisciplinary team that provides a comprehensive array of services.

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assertive community treatment (ACT)

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Providing mental health care coverage equal to that for physical health care

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parity

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Work and training in supportive settings for people with disabilities that helps them to become active workforce members.

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supported employment

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Therapy focused on supporting the patient at the current stage of illness rather than confronting possible problems and pushing the patient toward change.

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supportive psychotherapy

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___________

• Is patient/consumer-centered.

• Is hopeful and empowering.

• Emphasizes the person and the future rather than the illness and the present.

• Involves an active partnership between client and care providers.

• Focuses on strengths and abilities rather than dysfunction and disability.

• Emphasizes staff assisting the consumer in using strengths to achieve the highest quality of life possible.

• Encourages independence and self-determination.

• Focuses on achieving goals of the patient’s choosing (not staff’s).

• Aims for increasingly productive and meaningful lives for those with SMI.

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The recovery model:

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The shifting of a person or population from one kind of institution to another, such as from state hospitals to jails, prisons, nursing homes, or shelters.

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transinstitutionalization

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Focuses on socialization, activities of daily living (ADLs), and prevocational training (the fundamentals needed before one can be successfully employed [e.g., interviewing, dressing for work, interacting professionally with co-workers]).

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social skills training

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A model that is patient/consumer-centered, is hopeful and empowering, and emphasizes the person and the future rather than the illness and the present.

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recovery model

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A form of mandatory treatment that requires persons to receive treatment in the community. Opponents of this care model view it as paternalistic and at odds with the patient-centered recovery model of care.

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outpatient commitment

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The leading mental health consumer-advocacy organization that advocates for access to services, treatment, supports, and research.

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National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)