Chapter 10 Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Chapter 10 Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

Multiple Choice

1. In colonial American, mental health “treatment” consisted of:

1. Compassionate, volunteer community members housing the mentally ill in their private homes to give structured comfort and care
2. federal and state institutions providing social and behavioral programs
3. confinement in homes, in jails or in almshouses where patients suffered severely
4. community-based services that provided herbal medicines

Ans.: C

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2. National awareness of the needs of the mentally ill rose sharply in the aftermath of WWI because:

1. a large number of soldiers had been rejected from the draft due to mental illness
2. by the end of the war, several new effective pharmacologic treatments for mental illness had become available
3. the passage of the National Mental Health Act prompted political attention to the causes of the mentally ill
4. thousands of soldiers returned from the war suffering from “war neurosis” or “shell shock”

Ans.:  D

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3. During the 1960s, one factor that enabled mentally ill persons to move from large institutions to community settings was:

1. the development of effective pharmacologic treatments for many disorders
2. rising concern over the costs of inpatient care
3. the invention of psycho-surgery
4. the Quaker movement for “moral treatment”

Ans.:  A

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4. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, federal and state governments expanded community mental health centers and services based on which untested assumptions?

1. Structured supervision and strenuous labor could reduce mental illness symptoms
2. Severe mental illness did not differ qualitatively from lesser forms of mental distress and early intervention could prevent development of major psychiatric disorders
3. Social relationships and recreational activities offered in community mental health centers would contribute to reducing symptoms
4. No matter how ineffective, community-based treatment of the severely mentally ill was a better alternative than incarceration in large institutions

Ans.: B