Deck 17: Mental Health and Community Counseling

Question 1

The Kennedy Comprehensive Community Mental Health Act eliminated the need for mental hospitals.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A growing need is evident for counselors to provide remedial and preventative counseling services to employees.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A recent avenue of employment for counselors is in health maintenance organizations (HMO's) where counselors can do short-term counseling.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Community mental health services are typically centralized under one jurisdiction.

Question 5

Community counselors need not be familiar with developmental needs of children because most of their clients are adults.

Question 6

Senior centers are ideal places for offering counseling services to older adults and their families.

Question 7

Most children with ADHDs outgrow the disorder when they reach adulthood.

Question 8

The philosophy behind neighborhood comprehensive health care centers is that one can't separate emotional needs from medical, social and cultural needs.

Question 9

Refugees, unlike other immigrants, generally have a strong urge to return to their homeland.

Question 10

PTSD generally occurs with those who were emotionally unstable prior to the trauma.

Question 11

Family counseling is decreasing in the community because family counseling is expensive.

Question 12

In phase three of treatment for PTSD, the patient re-experiences or relives the trauma in a protected atmosphere.

Question 13

Which of the following is not an important reason why community counseling services for normal people developed slowly?

A) Legislatures did not supply funding
B) Practitioners were predominantly trained in diagnosis and treatment of mental illness
C) Little need for help was demonstrated by the public
D) Mental health providers did not fully recognize the need

Question 14

The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Act was passed in what decade?

A) 1950's
B) 1960's
C) 1970's
D) 1980's

Question 15

The major reason why the intent of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Act was not realized was

A) Withdrawal of federal funding
B) Lack of community interest
C) Lack of trained personnel
D) Lack of facilities

Question 16

Which of the following show signs of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?

A) Vietnam veterans
B) World War II prisoners of war (POW)
C) ACOA's
D) They all show symptoms of PTSD

Question 17

Which of the following statements regarding spiritual counseling is true?

A) Interest in spiritual needs of clients is increasing
B) The DSM-IV-TR recognizes that spiritual malaise may require treatment
C) Certified pastoral counselors are ethically bound not to proselytize clients
D) All of the above are true.

Question 18

Which of the following is not true about age-related counseling?

A) School counselors and community counselors are increasingly joining forces to work with at-risk students
B) For older adults, a major goal of counseling is to help them gain control over their lives
C) Adults at mid-life infrequently have career concerns
D) None of the above is true

Question 19

Which of the following is not true regarding ethnic family counseling?

A) African-American counselors recommend using pragmatic approaches with African-American families
B) Asian families, because of strong family ties, typically are unwilling to engage in family counseling
C) Hispanics tend to respond more positively to individual counseling than to family counseling
D) Native American families tend to resist family counseling, but once involved, they typically have good results

Question 20

Which one of the following advocates community family therapy whereby family counselors and therapists help clients and their families resolve economic, medical and social needs as part of the therapeutic process?

A) Minuchin
B) Bowen
C) Rojano
D) Real

Question 21

A rehabilitation center for torture victims modeled after the original in Copenhagen was first established in the following US city:

A) Boston
B) San Francisco
C) Minneapolis
D) Chicago

Question 22

In the Women's Project in Family Therapy, which of the following is not a major goal?

A) Expand family systems to include factors in the community
B) Help clients take responsibility for their lives
C) To help family therapists reassess their negative attitudes toward mothers
D) To help family members gain independence from their families

Question 23

Counseling has been increasing in the community during the last two decades. Explain.

Question 24

Describe the counseling needs of late adolescents and young adults in the community.

Question 25

What are the special counseling needs of middle-aged persons and of older adults?

Question 26

Discuss the major symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). What are steps in treatment?

Question 27

The Women's Project in Family Therapy was developed to offer alternative approaches to those offered by male-dominated family therapists. What changes have they recommended in family therapy?

Question 28

Ingersoll and Bishop have presented guidelines for counselors working with ethnic clients with varying spiritual beliefs. Summarize their recommendations.

Question 29

Discuss concerns of victims of political and social upheavals. Give examples of types of services being offered to help them.

Question 30

What are the advantages of neighborhood comprehensive care centers in ethnic inner-city neighborhoods? What are the primary goals of counselors working with families?

Question 31

Describe counseling services offered for employees who witness or who are victims of violence or a traumatic experience that occurs on the job.