Chapter 17: Contemporary and Legal Issues in Abnormal Psychology

Chapter 17: Contemporary and Legal Issues in Abnormal Psychology

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below 

 

Chapter 17: Contemporary and Legal Issues in Abnormal Psychology

 

Multiple-Choice Questions

 

17.1-1. The concepts of universal, selective, and indicated interventions were widely used by

1. psychodynamic therapists to describe ways of reducing neurotic anxiety.
2. city planners to describe ways of eliminating crime and other social problems.
3. public health experts to describe ways of preventing disease.
4. developmental psychologists to describe problems that occur in early, middle, and later childhood.

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 17.1-1

Page Ref: 584

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention

Skill: Factual

Answer: c. public health experts to describe ways of preventing disease.

 

17.1-2. Efforts at reducing racism as a means of preventing mental illness would be a(n) ________ intervention.

1. universal
2. selective
3. indicated
4. tertiary

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 17.1-2

Page Ref: 584

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention

Skill: Applied

Answer: b. selective

 

17.1-3. “Efforts that are aimed at influencing the general population” best describes

1. crisis interventions.
2. universal interventions.
3. selective interventions.
4. indicated interventions.

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 17.1-3

Page Ref: 584

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention

Skill: Factual

Answer: b. universal interventions.

 

17.1-4. Universal interventions are concerned with two key tasks:

1. identifying people with a particular disorder and referring them for help.
2. providing timely therapy and evaluating its usefulness.
3. strengthening individuals’ psychological coping skills and improving their biological health.
4. altering conditions that cause disorders and establishing conditions that foster positive mental health.

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 17.1-4

Page Ref: 584

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention/Universal Interventions

Skill: Factual

Answer: d. altering conditions that cause disorders and establishing conditions that foster positive mental health.

 

17.1-5. Which of the following might be a component of a biologically based universal strategy for preventing mental illness?

1. Identifying people with a particular disorder and referring them for help
2. Determining whether or not there is a family history of mental illness
3. Encouraging regular physical activity
4. Offering tuberculosis testing

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 17.1-5

Page Ref: 584

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention/Universal Interventions

Skill: Applied

Answer: c. Encouraging regular physical activity

 

17.1-6. Which of the following is a requirement for psychosocial health?

1. High socioeconomic status
2. Having sound moral judgment
3. Having a realistic view of one’s self
4. Being a member of a religious organization

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 17.1-6

Page Ref: 584

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention/Universal Interventions

Skill: Conceptual

Answer: c. Having a realistic view of one’s self

 

17.1-7. Having skills for effective problem solving, possessing an accurate set of assumptions about oneself, and being prepared for problems one is likely to encounter at various life stages are all requirements for

1. cultural adjustment.
2. psychosocial health.
3. biological health.
4. being a candidate for deinstitutionalization.

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 17.1-7

Page Ref: 584

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention/Universal Interventions

Skill: Factual

Answer: b. psychosocial health.

 

17.1-8. Which of the following is a sociocultural effort toward universal prevention of mental disorders?

1. Daycare.
2. Penal systems.
3. Private schools.
4. Social security.

Difficulty: 2

Question ID: 17.1-8

Page Ref: 585

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention/Universal Interventions

Skill: Conceptual

Answer: d. Social security.

 

17.1-9. Which of the following is a sociocultural effort toward universal prevention?

1. Public education
2. Teaching adolescents to not use drugs
3. Hospitalizing the mentally ill
4. Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill

Difficulty: 2

Question ID: 17.1-9

Page Ref: 585

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention/Universal Interventions

Skill: Applied

Answer: a. Public education

 

17.1-10. The fact that funding for community mental health centers was cut in the 1980s while money for the “war on drugs” was increased illustrates the

1. current shift away from attacking personal risk factors and toward attacking social circumstances.
2. tendency for selective and indicated interventions to use different funding sources.
3. trend of government to provide fewer selective interventions and more universal ones.
4. likelihood that political philosophy will influence efforts at social change.

Difficulty: 2

Question ID: 17.1-10

Page Ref: 586

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention/Selective Interventions

Skill: Conceptual

Answer: d. likelihood that political philosophy will influence efforts at social change.

 

17.1-11.The school – based intervention program called DARE has been shown to be:

1. highly effective
2. largely not effective
3. effective only in some stated.
4. effective only with upper middle class students

Difficulty: 2

Question ID: 17.1-11

Page Ref: 586

Topic: Perspectives on Prevention/Selective Interventions

Skill: Factual

Answer: b. largely not effective