Mental Health Midterm Exam Questions
And Answers
During the 1800s, what did Pinel believe that the cure for mental illness was?
A) arrest and confinement
B) early psychotherapy
C) humane treatment
D) the use of chains - ANS C) humane treatment
Who was the psychiatrist who suggested the term "mental hygiene"?
A) Clarence Hincks
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Philippe Pinel
D) Adolf Meyer - ANS D) Adolf Meyer
Before the 19th century, seriously mentally ill clients with severely disturbing
behaviour were usually cared for by:
A) family members at home.
B) spiritual healers in asylums.
C) laypersons in hospitals.
D) staff in prisons and poorhouses. - ANS D) staff in prisons and poorhouses.
Which variable of communities had the most influence on the early forms of
institutional ways of caring for the mentally ill people?
A) quality of housing and number of professionals
B) social stability and availability of resources
C) political climate and public policy
D) legal structure and role of nurses - ANS B) social stability and availability of resources
Which factor has been historically related to increased intolerance and ill
treatment of people with mental disorders?
A) social change and instability
B) increased family size and mobility
C) emphasis on religious beliefs
D) increased number of asylums treating mentally ill - ANS A) social change and instability
Which effects of industrialization and urbanization contributed positively to the
humane treatment of mentally afflicted treatment? Select all that apply.
A) the growing number of poor and deviant people who were not able to sustain
,themselves
B) more general anxieties during a period of rapid social change and instability
C) moral, pedagogical treatment that would help restore innate capacity for selfcontrol
D) the Enlightenment, which changed medical and social ideas about mental illness
E) recognition of mental illness by the medical community - ANS C D E
Which was a primary reform accomplished by Dorothea Lynde Dix?
A) establishment of "commitment" laws in state legislatures
B) introducing compassion to the care of mentally ill clients
C) use of music to treat mentally ill clients
D) use of exercise therapy to treat mentally ill clients - ANS B) introducing compassion to the
care of mentally ill clients
Which province in Canada was first to open a mental institution in 1835?
A) Ontario
B) Nova Scotia
C) Quebec
D) New Brunswick - ANS D) New Brunswick
When did involuntary confinement and institutional care of mentally ill people
begin to be the foremost treatment modality?
A) the 17th and 18th centuries
B) end of the 20th century
C) beginning of the 19th century
D) last half of the 19th century - ANS D) last half of the 19th century
Which was developed in 1909 by the National Mental Health Committee for
Mental Hygiene?
A) mental health nurse training
B) stress management clinics
C) prison clinics
D) hydrotherapy centres - ANS C) prison clinics
What superintendent of various Ontario psychiatric hospitals was one of the first
health care providers who reformed models of care to improve treatment
approaches in Ontario?
A) Adolf Meyer
B) Clifford Beers
C) Charles K. Clarke
D) Charles A. Barager - ANS C) Charles K. Clarke
When did psychiatric nursing education in the general hospital training
commence in eastern Canada?
A) 1860s
,B) 1900s
C) 1930s
D) 1950s - ANS C) 1930s
Which level of legislation supported confinement of mentally ill clients in
Canada in the late 19th century?
A) provincial
B) national
C) municipal
D) state - ANS A) provincial
In the earliest institutions that cared for mentally ill members of the community,
what was the most common experience of clients?
A) sporadic focus on treatment
B) safer alternative to living in the community
C) emphasis on rehabilitation
D) deplorable living conditions - ANS D) deplorable living conditions
What psychiatrist who had a strong belief in the ability of female compassion and
established a new diploma in Alberta for mental health nurses?
A) Adolf Meyer
B) Charles K. Clarke
C) Clarence Hincks
D) Charles A. Barager - ANS D) Charles A. Barager
Which new type of therapy instituted in the 1940s made skilled nursing essential?
A) cognitive-behavioural therapy
B) electroshock therapy
C) pharmacologic therapy
D) recreational therapy - ANS B) electroshock therapy
Which socioeconomic classes had new opportunities to pursue careers as
psychiatric nurses as the demand for skilled nursing emerged in the 1940s? Select
all that apply.
A) elite class
B) impoverished class
C) unemployed class
D) working class
E) middle class - ANS D E
1900s, believe that what factor contributed to disorders?
A) biologic defects
B) dysfunctional family systems
C) environmental and social deprivation
, D) unconscious motivators for behaviour - ANS C) environmental and social deprivation
What was the major focus of "psychiatric pluralism," introduced by Adolf
Meyer?
A) integration of the human biologic functions with the environment
B) psychoanalysis integrated with daily activities of living
C) biologic science integrated with bloodletting treatments
D) determining the drives behind the person's behaviours - ANS A) integration of the human
biologic functions with the environment
Which factor was believed to lead to the development of a psychosis or neurosis
in an individual according to the theory proposed by Sigmund Freud?
A) a chemical imbalance in the brain
B) social deprivation occurred late in adolescence
C) an interference in normal development
D) development of an oedipal relationship - ANS C) an interference in normal development
Who promoted university-based scientific research to influence change and find
better treatment and support for mentally ill clients?
A) Charles K. Clarke
B) Clifford Beers
C) Adolf Meyer
D) Clarence Hincks - ANS A) Charles K. Clarke
Which type of treatment focused most directly on treating the brain, ultimately
facilitating discharges from institutions during the mid-20th century?
A) psychopharmacology
B) insulin shock therapy
C) psychosurgery
D) hydrotherapy - ANS A) psychopharmacology
Which phenomenon most supported the paradigm shift and public policy
changes from the Canadian Mental Health Association in the 1960s?
A) deinstitutionalization
B) increased psychiatric admissions to provincial psychiatric hospitals
C) psychiatric nursing education
D) psychiatric pluralism - ANS A) deinstitutionalization
Which theorist's work influenced psychiatric mental health nursing theory by
emphasizing building therapeutic nurse-client relationships and holistic nursing
approaches?
A) Benner
B) Peplau
C) Freud
And Answers
During the 1800s, what did Pinel believe that the cure for mental illness was?
A) arrest and confinement
B) early psychotherapy
C) humane treatment
D) the use of chains - ANS C) humane treatment
Who was the psychiatrist who suggested the term "mental hygiene"?
A) Clarence Hincks
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Philippe Pinel
D) Adolf Meyer - ANS D) Adolf Meyer
Before the 19th century, seriously mentally ill clients with severely disturbing
behaviour were usually cared for by:
A) family members at home.
B) spiritual healers in asylums.
C) laypersons in hospitals.
D) staff in prisons and poorhouses. - ANS D) staff in prisons and poorhouses.
Which variable of communities had the most influence on the early forms of
institutional ways of caring for the mentally ill people?
A) quality of housing and number of professionals
B) social stability and availability of resources
C) political climate and public policy
D) legal structure and role of nurses - ANS B) social stability and availability of resources
Which factor has been historically related to increased intolerance and ill
treatment of people with mental disorders?
A) social change and instability
B) increased family size and mobility
C) emphasis on religious beliefs
D) increased number of asylums treating mentally ill - ANS A) social change and instability
Which effects of industrialization and urbanization contributed positively to the
humane treatment of mentally afflicted treatment? Select all that apply.
A) the growing number of poor and deviant people who were not able to sustain
,themselves
B) more general anxieties during a period of rapid social change and instability
C) moral, pedagogical treatment that would help restore innate capacity for selfcontrol
D) the Enlightenment, which changed medical and social ideas about mental illness
E) recognition of mental illness by the medical community - ANS C D E
Which was a primary reform accomplished by Dorothea Lynde Dix?
A) establishment of "commitment" laws in state legislatures
B) introducing compassion to the care of mentally ill clients
C) use of music to treat mentally ill clients
D) use of exercise therapy to treat mentally ill clients - ANS B) introducing compassion to the
care of mentally ill clients
Which province in Canada was first to open a mental institution in 1835?
A) Ontario
B) Nova Scotia
C) Quebec
D) New Brunswick - ANS D) New Brunswick
When did involuntary confinement and institutional care of mentally ill people
begin to be the foremost treatment modality?
A) the 17th and 18th centuries
B) end of the 20th century
C) beginning of the 19th century
D) last half of the 19th century - ANS D) last half of the 19th century
Which was developed in 1909 by the National Mental Health Committee for
Mental Hygiene?
A) mental health nurse training
B) stress management clinics
C) prison clinics
D) hydrotherapy centres - ANS C) prison clinics
What superintendent of various Ontario psychiatric hospitals was one of the first
health care providers who reformed models of care to improve treatment
approaches in Ontario?
A) Adolf Meyer
B) Clifford Beers
C) Charles K. Clarke
D) Charles A. Barager - ANS C) Charles K. Clarke
When did psychiatric nursing education in the general hospital training
commence in eastern Canada?
A) 1860s
,B) 1900s
C) 1930s
D) 1950s - ANS C) 1930s
Which level of legislation supported confinement of mentally ill clients in
Canada in the late 19th century?
A) provincial
B) national
C) municipal
D) state - ANS A) provincial
In the earliest institutions that cared for mentally ill members of the community,
what was the most common experience of clients?
A) sporadic focus on treatment
B) safer alternative to living in the community
C) emphasis on rehabilitation
D) deplorable living conditions - ANS D) deplorable living conditions
What psychiatrist who had a strong belief in the ability of female compassion and
established a new diploma in Alberta for mental health nurses?
A) Adolf Meyer
B) Charles K. Clarke
C) Clarence Hincks
D) Charles A. Barager - ANS D) Charles A. Barager
Which new type of therapy instituted in the 1940s made skilled nursing essential?
A) cognitive-behavioural therapy
B) electroshock therapy
C) pharmacologic therapy
D) recreational therapy - ANS B) electroshock therapy
Which socioeconomic classes had new opportunities to pursue careers as
psychiatric nurses as the demand for skilled nursing emerged in the 1940s? Select
all that apply.
A) elite class
B) impoverished class
C) unemployed class
D) working class
E) middle class - ANS D E
1900s, believe that what factor contributed to disorders?
A) biologic defects
B) dysfunctional family systems
C) environmental and social deprivation
, D) unconscious motivators for behaviour - ANS C) environmental and social deprivation
What was the major focus of "psychiatric pluralism," introduced by Adolf
Meyer?
A) integration of the human biologic functions with the environment
B) psychoanalysis integrated with daily activities of living
C) biologic science integrated with bloodletting treatments
D) determining the drives behind the person's behaviours - ANS A) integration of the human
biologic functions with the environment
Which factor was believed to lead to the development of a psychosis or neurosis
in an individual according to the theory proposed by Sigmund Freud?
A) a chemical imbalance in the brain
B) social deprivation occurred late in adolescence
C) an interference in normal development
D) development of an oedipal relationship - ANS C) an interference in normal development
Who promoted university-based scientific research to influence change and find
better treatment and support for mentally ill clients?
A) Charles K. Clarke
B) Clifford Beers
C) Adolf Meyer
D) Clarence Hincks - ANS A) Charles K. Clarke
Which type of treatment focused most directly on treating the brain, ultimately
facilitating discharges from institutions during the mid-20th century?
A) psychopharmacology
B) insulin shock therapy
C) psychosurgery
D) hydrotherapy - ANS A) psychopharmacology
Which phenomenon most supported the paradigm shift and public policy
changes from the Canadian Mental Health Association in the 1960s?
A) deinstitutionalization
B) increased psychiatric admissions to provincial psychiatric hospitals
C) psychiatric nursing education
D) psychiatric pluralism - ANS A) deinstitutionalization
Which theorist's work influenced psychiatric mental health nursing theory by
emphasizing building therapeutic nurse-client relationships and holistic nursing
approaches?
A) Benner
B) Peplau
C) Freud
