Mental Health Quiz

What is the study of the symptoms, causes, and treatments of mental disorders called?

• Tarantism

• Cathartic method

• Psychiatric epidemiology

• Psychopathology

What is the percentage of individuals in a targeted population who have a particular disorder during a specific period of time called?

• Prevalence

• Mental illness

• Cultural universality

• Lifetime prevalence

What is the belief that mental disorders have a physical or physiological basis called?

• Moral treatment movement

• Psychological viewpoint

• Biological viewpoint

• Humanism

What is the philosophical movement that emphasizes human welfare and the worth and uniqueness of the individual called?

• Managed health care

• Humanism

• Optimal human functioning

• Spirituality

What is the belief in an animating life force or energy beyond what we can perceive with our senses called?

• Psychotherapy

• Optimal human functioning

• Spirituality

• Etiology

What is the capacity to effectively adapt to and bounce back from stress, trauma, and other adversities called?

• Psychological resilience

• Empowerment

• Self-efficacy

• Exorcism

What is the percentage of people in the population who have had a disorder at some point in their lives called?

• Lifetime prevalence

• Prevalence

• Cultural universality

• Mental illness

What is the belief in one's ability to succeed called?

• Self-efficacy

• Exorcism

• Empowerment

• Psychological resilience

What is the scientific study of mental disorders called?

• Abnormal psychology

• Systemic racism

• Etiology

• Culture

What is the idea that a person's beliefs, values, and behaviors are affected by the culture within which that person lives called?

• Self-stigma

• Cultural relativism

• Social stigma

• Prejudice