Complete Solutions 2024.
Write your definition of mental health & mental illness. - Answer Mental Health is the ability to cope &
adjust to recurrent stresses of living in a socially accepted way & Mental illness is a disturbance in one's
ability to cope effectively.
Who Surveyed conditions of mental hospitals in US, Canada, and Scotland? - Answer Dorothea Dix
Who wrote a book that started the mental hygiene movement? - Answer Clifford Beers
Who Said" life was a dynamic equilibrium maintained by the soul"? - Answer Plato
Who Wrote the first American textbook on psychiatry? - Answer Benjamin Rush
Who Viewed mental illness as the result of an imbalance of humors? - Answer Hippocrates
Who Freed the mentally ill in France from their chains? - Answer Philippe Pinel
What made witch hunting so popular for 500 years? - Answer Witch hunting was official launched in
1487 with the publication of the book "The Witches Hammer" a text book of both pornography and
psychopathology.Religion & Religious Support particularly Pope Innocent VIII to blame societal problems
on women.
Which legislative act called for a neighborhood-based mental health care delivery system? - Answer
Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963
Which legislative act dramatically reduced federal funding for mental health and illness care? - Answer
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981
, What is Third-party payment? - Answer Medical costs covered by a "third party" - usually an insurance
company -or- state/federal government
What is Preferred provider organization? - Answer Established during 1980s to help curtail the rapidly-
growing increases in health care costs consisting of network of MDs, organizations at a discount
What Health Maintenance Organization? - Answer Deliver health care to enrolled clients who pay a
fixed price. Health care costs covered as long as clients receive care within the system, & referrals to
specialists are required
What Diagnosis-related group? - Answer Cost-containment method whereby health care providers are
paid of predetermined rates. (_more than 400 classifies each illness)
Identify two factors that are considered when admitting a client to an inpatient psychiatric setting: -
Answer 1)Severity of the client's illness 2) level of dysfunction
List two outpatient psychiatric care settings - Answer 1)Partial Hospitalization day Treat Centers,2)
Community Mental Health Centers
The client is homeless, jobless, 25-year-old schizophrenic woman who thinks she may be pregnant. Using
the community support systems model, determine which services would most benefit this client -
Answer Family-Planning Agencies, Mental health agencies, Employment, job-training agency, Fair
Housing Bureau -or- agency
The client is being discharged from the hospital to the community where case management will be
implemented. List four components of case management: - Answer Psychosocial Rehabilitation,
Consultation, Resource Linkage Referral, Advocacy
List two mental health problems associated with human immunodeficiency virus HIV/acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS - Answer 1.Organic problems i.e. Impairment in
Judgement/Concentration progressing to Dementia,2. Psychosocial Problems- anxiety, depression, etc
Serves as one's personal basis for right or wrong behaviors - Answer Morals