Deck 18: Complementary Alternative Treatment of Mental Illnesses

Question 1

A ____________________ is a Muslim man revered for his religious knowledge and teachings.

Answer 1

moulana

Question 2

Provide five points that critique biomedicine.

Answer 2

Students may provide any five of the following critiques:
Mainstream medications often have significant side-effects.
The medical view on illness reduces the determinants of illness almost exclusively to physical factors only, and often neglects to consider spiritual and social influences. The result is a loss of a whole person perspective.
Typical consultations with practitioners may be brief and depersonalised.
The pharmaceutical industry is deemed by many to have excessive power and is viewed by some as money-hungry. Pharmaceutical companies provide funding with the intention of marketing and this makes one question some practitioners' motives for prescribing certain medications.
Emphasis is often on crisis intervention and pathology correction, rather than prevention and health maintenance.
It is an expensive method of treatment, and not easily accessible to individuals living in
peri-urban and rural communities.
Biomedicine may be of limited value if psychological, somatic or spiritual causes underlie the presenting mental illness.

Question 3

Earlier conceptions of mental illness were attributed to neuronal oddities in the frontal lobe. Individuals consequently underwent surgical procedures in which parts of the frontal lobe were cut or scraped away.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Describe the egocentric conception of the self.

Question 5

Research indicates that poorer people use complementary alternative medicine (CAM).

Question 6

Mention four commonalities between African, Eastern and Indian philosophies, and discuss the notion that underpins these philosophies.

Question 7

____________________ acts in multiple feedback loops, where the present is shaped by the past
and the present; and the present is shaped by the future and the present.

Question 8

____________________ is a form of therapy that works on changing thought and behaviour patterns by engaging processes in the unconscious mind.

Question 9

In the sociocentric conception of self: (a) the self is defined by family and community; (b) dominant values include collectivism, interdependence and cooperation; and (c) the group serves as the locus of agency.