PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Disulfiram, Dyskinesia, Psychoactive Drug
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Women more than men, adults 35-55 more than young adults caucasians more than asians and natives are more likely to seek therapy. Barriers to treatment: ambiguity of healthy and ill , denial, stigma, cost, time taken. Clinical psychologists: phd, able to formally diagnose and treat mental health issues. Counselling psychologists: masters or phd mental health professionals who work with more common problems like stress and mild anxiety/depression. Psychiatrists: medical doctor who specialize in mental health and are able to diagnose and treat through medication. Institutions began to emerge in the 14th century and were brutal. In the 1700s, philippe pinel and dorothea dix helped asylums become more humane and more focused on treating people as ill rather than prisoners, but they were still overcrowded and ineffective. In the 1960s, treatments and medication began to emerge that caused a movement toward deinstitutionalization: mental health patients were released back into their communities after having symptoms alleviated through medication.
