Question 1: Define and discuss mental health, mental disorders, and DSM-IV-TR. What is the use and importance of the DSM-IV-TR in American healthcare?
Question 2: Consider primary, secondary and tertiary prevention as you have learned about these in earlier units of the course. How are these approaches applied to mental healthcare services? Provide specific examples.
Question 3: Select any minority group of special interest to yourself and identify the key sociodemographic, socioeconomic, value and belief characteristics of that minority group in the United States. What is unique about providing healthcare services for this group?
Question 4: Visit and search for http:www.webmd.com and read the following article: Report: 1 in 5 Adults Had Mental Illness in 2010.
Does anything about this research surprise you? Why or why not? What is your key learning from this article and how will you utilize this learning in your own practice of healthcare administration?
Question 5: America has always been characterized by diversity. The very existence of our nation is the result of people coming to America from their own homelands for a better life. They came, and continue to come, from widely diverse places, societies, and cultures.
What are the impact of an increasingly diverse American population in terms of community health and the delivery of healthcare services? What will this mean for your own practice of healthcare management or administration?