FOUNDATIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE
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QUESTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ person is said to be mentally ill. Answer: What does it mean when
behaviors interfere with daily activities, impair judgment, or alter
reality?
◉ could not be seen or felt. Answer: why was mental illness feared
in the early days?
◉ trephining. Answer: cutting holes in the skull to encourage the evil
spirits to leave
◉ thought to be caused by evil spirits. Answer: How did early
societies explain the cause of mental illness?
◉ frightening masks and noises
incantations
vile odors
charms
spells
, sacrifices
fetishes. Answer: What types of magical therapies were used to treat
mental illness in early societies?
◉ bleeding
massage
blistering
inducing vomiting
the practice of trephining. Answer: What physical treatments were
used in an effort to remove evil spirits?
◉ as long as their behaviors were not disruptive. Answer: Under
what conditions were mentally ill individuals allowed to remain in
society?
◉ humoral theory of disease. Answer: Hippocrates' view that illness
was the result of an imbalance of the body's humors of blood,
phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile
◉ Superstitions and magical beliefs. Answer: What belief systems
dominated the understanding of mental illness before the Greeks?
COMPREHENSIVE SCRIPT 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ person is said to be mentally ill. Answer: What does it mean when
behaviors interfere with daily activities, impair judgment, or alter
reality?
◉ could not be seen or felt. Answer: why was mental illness feared
in the early days?
◉ trephining. Answer: cutting holes in the skull to encourage the evil
spirits to leave
◉ thought to be caused by evil spirits. Answer: How did early
societies explain the cause of mental illness?
◉ frightening masks and noises
incantations
vile odors
charms
spells
, sacrifices
fetishes. Answer: What types of magical therapies were used to treat
mental illness in early societies?
◉ bleeding
massage
blistering
inducing vomiting
the practice of trephining. Answer: What physical treatments were
used in an effort to remove evil spirits?
◉ as long as their behaviors were not disruptive. Answer: Under
what conditions were mentally ill individuals allowed to remain in
society?
◉ humoral theory of disease. Answer: Hippocrates' view that illness
was the result of an imbalance of the body's humors of blood,
phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile
◉ Superstitions and magical beliefs. Answer: What belief systems
dominated the understanding of mental illness before the Greeks?
