1. Discuss how the methods of treating mental illness have changed over the years. How is mental health viewed now compared to how it was viewed in pre-modern societies?
2. What is managed care and how did it come to exist? How do you feel about managed care? Provide evidence supporting your opinion.
3. Using the ebrary section of the CSU Online Library, locate the following book:
Clinical Case Formulation: Varieties of Approaches edited by Peter Sturmey.
Once you have located the book, read Chapter 6, pp. 85-92. The title of this chapter is "Zeppi: A Case of Psychosis" and was written by Anthony Dimech, David Kingdon, and Maged Swelam.
As you learned in Chapter 7, behavior leads to the label of mental illness when it violates cognitive norms, performance norms, and feeling norms. Identify the existence of each of these norms within the case study, and discuss what causes it to be distinguished as such.
4.Do you believe that there actually is a crisis in health care in the United States? Why, or why not? Give evidence to support your answer.