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B · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

Define and explain mental illness and mental disorders and describe the treatment of each in the United States.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Low-income countries are primarily __________ nations with little industrialization and low levels of national and personal income.

a. service-oriented
b. pastoral
c. urbanized
d. agrarian

DHRUVSHAH · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 2, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Many medical professionals distinguish between a mental disordera condition that makes it difficult or impossible for a person to cope with everyday lifeand mental illness

a condition in which a person has a severe mental disorder requiring extensive treatment with medication, psychotherapy, and sometimes hospitalization.

The most widely accepted classification of mental disorders is the American Psychiatric Association's (2013) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

Many people seeking psychiatric assistance are treated with medications or psychotherapywhich is believed to help patients understand the underlying reasons for their problem and sometimes treatment in psychiatric wards of local hospitals or in private psychiatric hospitals. However, the introduction of new psychoactive drugs to treat mental disorders and the deinstitutionalizat ion movement in the 1960s have created dramatic changes in how people with mental disorders are treated. Deinstitutionalizat ion refers to the practice of rapidly discharging patients from mental hospitals into the community. Originally devised as a solution for the problem of warehousing mentally ill patients in large, prison-like mental hospitals in the first half of the twentieth century, deinstitutionalizat ion is now viewed as a problem by many social scientists. The theory behind this process was that patients' rights were being violated because many patients experienced involuntary commitment (i.e., without their consent) to the hospitals, where they remained for extended periods of time. Instead, some professionals believed that the patients' mental disorders could be controlled with proper medications and treatment from community-based mental health services.

Answer to Question 2

d