Deck 17: Community Mental Health: Policy and Practice

Question 1

There is a clear definition of the causality, level of disability, and impact of mental illness on the person.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Match the model with the appropriate description .

-Few Freedom Commission on Mental Health

A)Charges that the mental-health system has not kept pace with the diverse needs of racial and ethnic minorities, often underserving or inappropriately serving them
B)Must find appropriate accommodation when client is ready to leave an institutional setting
C)Prohibits discrimination based on disability
D)Beginning of moral treatment of mentally ill patients
E)Move toward deinstitutionalization

Answer 2

Charges that the mental-health system has not kept pace with the diverse needs of racial and ethnic minorities, often underserving or inappropriately serving them

Question 3

Match the model with the appropriate description .

-hlmstead Decision

A)Charges that the mental-health system has not kept pace with the diverse needs of racial and ethnic minorities, often underserving or inappropriately serving them
B)Must find appropriate accommodation when client is ready to leave an institutional setting
C)Prohibits discrimination based on disability
D)Beginning of moral treatment of mentally ill patients
E)Move toward deinstitutionalization

Answer 3

Must find appropriate accommodation when client is ready to leave an institutional setting

Question 4

Match the model with the appropriate description .

-Americans with Disabilities Act

A)Charges that the mental-health system has not kept pace with the diverse needs of racial and ethnic minorities, often underserving or inappropriately serving them
B)Must find appropriate accommodation when client is ready to leave an institutional setting
C)Prohibits discrimination based on disability
D)Beginning of moral treatment of mentally ill patients
E)Move toward deinstitutionalization

Question 5

Match the model with the appropriate description .

-Philippe Pinel

A)Charges that the mental-health system has not kept pace with the diverse needs of racial and ethnic minorities, often underserving or inappropriately serving them
B)Must find appropriate accommodation when client is ready to leave an institutional setting
C)Prohibits discrimination based on disability
D)Beginning of moral treatment of mentally ill patients
E)Move toward deinstitutionalization

Question 6

Match the model with the appropriate description .

-The Community Mental Health Centers Act

A)Charges that the mental-health system has not kept pace with the diverse needs of racial and ethnic minorities, often underserving or inappropriately serving them
B)Must find appropriate accommodation when client is ready to leave an institutional setting
C)Prohibits discrimination based on disability
D)Beginning of moral treatment of mentally ill patients
E)Move toward deinstitutionalization

Question 7

An evidence-based practice that offers supportive services and treatment to individuals in the community to help them achieve meaningful goals and life roles is

A)Assertive Community Treatment
B)cultural competence
C)mental-health parity
D)deinstitutionalization
E)restrictive environment

Question 8

A system that a person uses to understand what is happening in their lives according to values, symbols, and the customs of their specific culture is

A)cultural competence
B)cultural identity
C)evidence-based practice
D)recovery
E)mental-health parity

Question 9

A process for making practice decisions in which practitioners integrate the best research evidence available with their practice expertise and with client attributes, values, preferences, and circumstances is

A)cultural competence
B)deinstitutionalization
C)evidence-based practice
D)recovery
E)mental health parity

Question 10

A process whereby a person with mental illness can return to a life that is useful and meaningful by establishing their own goals and working toward achieving them is

A)cultural competence
B)deinstitutionalization
C)evidence based practice
D)recovery
E)mental health parity

Question 11

The current thinking in mental health treatment is

A)Communicate feeling of hope and efficacy
B)cultural identity
C)restrictive environment
D)Darwinism
E)shock therapy

Question 12

There are times when a social worker is obligated to violate the agreement not to disclose information.

Question 13

A concern often voiced about the Mental Health Parity Act is that there is an incentive to assign a more severe diagnosis so it would be covered by the insurance plan.

Question 14

Assertive Community Treatment has resulted in fewer hospitalizations.

Question 15

A criticsm of evidence-based practice is that it did not include enough ethnic and minority populations in the samples.

Question 16

Match the model with the appropriate description .

-arasoff v. Regents of California

A)Therapist is culpable if reasonable care is not provided to protect potential victim based on disclosure in a counseling session
B)Assures that individuals' health information is properly protected, while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high-quality health care and to protect the public's health
C)Organization and financial structure that are designed to monitor and influence treatment decisions so that care can be provided in the most cost-effective way
D)Companies that provide medical insurance to their employees cannot put ceilings on mental-health benefits that are more restrictive than those of medical and surgical benefits

Question 17

Match the model with the appropriate description .

-Mealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

A)Therapist is culpable if reasonable care is not provided to protect potential victim based on disclosure in a counseling session
B)Assures that individuals' health information is properly protected, while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high-quality health care and to protect the public's health
C)Organization and financial structure that are designed to monitor and influence treatment decisions so that care can be provided in the most cost-effective way
D)Companies that provide medical insurance to their employees cannot put ceilings on mental-health benefits that are more restrictive than those of medical and surgical benefits

Question 18

Match the model with the appropriate description .

-Managed Care

A)Therapist is culpable if reasonable care is not provided to protect potential victim based on disclosure in a counseling session
B)Assures that individuals' health information is properly protected, while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high-quality health care and to protect the public's health
C)Organization and financial structure that are designed to monitor and influence treatment decisions so that care can be provided in the most cost-effective way
D)Companies that provide medical insurance to their employees cannot put ceilings on mental-health benefits that are more restrictive than those of medical and surgical benefits

Question 19

Match the model with the appropriate description .

-Mental Health Parity Act

A)Therapist is culpable if reasonable care is not provided to protect potential victim based on disclosure in a counseling session
B)Assures that individuals' health information is properly protected, while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high-quality health care and to protect the public's health
C)Organization and financial structure that are designed to monitor and influence treatment decisions so that care can be provided in the most cost-effective way
D)Companies that provide medical insurance to their employees cannot put ceilings on mental-health benefits that are more restrictive than those of medical and surgical benefits