Across
- 6. excessive fear of objects or activities
- 8. state governments built these; later known as hospitals
- 11. american psychiatric association; published the first DSM to encourage acceptance of mental health disorders
- 12. treatment that uses electric signals into the brain; it will effectively slow down or distract the message from the nerve to the brain; it is chiefly used in the treatment of various forms of paralysis
- 13. also participate in the treatment of mental health, cannot prescribe medications but provide different types of therapy
Down
- 1. conditions that alter thinking processes, moods, or behavior and result in dysfunction or stress
- 2. occurs when people are forced to receive treatment or are committed to a facility against their wishes
- 3. treating the mentally ill with sensitivity
- 4. commitment occurs when people commit themselves willingsly to receive care
- 5. liability issues associated with. Mental health care, an analysis of mental healthcare system, and guidelines and recommendations to improve U.S. mental health care
- 7. mental health parity and addiction equity act of 2008; further supported mental health care by requiring insurance plans to offer mental health benefits and cost sharing similar to those of traditional medical benefits
- 9. speacialty physicians who can prescribe medication and admit patients to hospitals
- 10. new freedom commission on mental health; charged with implementing an analystical study in the U.S. mental health service system and developing recommendations to improve the public mental health system that could be implemented at the federal, state, and local levels