Deck 8: Prevention in Human Services

Question 1

An excellent reason to emphasize primary prevention programs is that there are not enough human services personnel to treat or rehabilitate all that are in need.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Prevention means to keep something from happening.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

It was not until the 1960s that the federal government seriously considered efforts to prevent mental illness.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Passive primary prevention strategies include:

A) attending group therapy sessions.
B) going to school to learn how to handle mental illness.
C) broad media informational type programs.
D) drug therapy.
E) none of these.

Question 5

Clifford Beers and his associates were instrumental in initiating:

A) the mental hygiene movement.
B) improvements of mental hospitals.
C) the cure of existing mental illness.
D) the use of doctors to administer mental hospitals.
E) none of these.

Question 6

A program designed to rehabilitate those afflicted with severe mental disorders would be an example of:

A) primary prevention.
B) secondary prevention.
C) tertiary prevention.
D) quaternary prevention.

Question 7

Critical aspects of primary prevention are that:

A) it must be group or mass oriented.
B) it is focused on high-risk groups.
C) it is aimed at specific target populations.
D) it can deal with the general population.
E) all of these.

Question 8

The major focus of the settlement house movement was to help people deal with:

A) mental illness.
B) poor education.
C) crime.
D) hunger.
E) poor education, crime, and hunger.

Question 9

Prior to the 1960s, most prevention programs aimed at mental illness were carried out by the Public Health Service.

Question 10

It was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century that significant efforts were made to prevent mental illness.

Question 11

A program designed to help the newly employed learn new skills would be an example of:

A) primary prevention.
B) secondary prevention.
C) tertiary prevention.
D) quaternary prevention.

Question 12

The lack of knowledge about the causes of a specific illness was always an obstacle to preventing the illness.

Question 13

What are the three major categories of obstacles to the funding and development of primary prevention programs in the human services field?

A) Professional, political, and economic
B) Social, philosophical, and psychological
C) Theoretical, practical, and psychoanalytical
D) Educational, practical, and medical

Question 14

Early detection and treatment of dysfunction is defined as secondary prevention.

Question 15

In the field of medicine, major targets of prevention are:

A) illness.
B) premature births.
C) premature or unnecessary death.
D) injuries.
E) illness, premature or unnecessary death, and injuries.

Question 16

Primary prevention is designed to keep a disorder, disability, or dysfunction from occurring in the first place.

Question 17

In preliterate societies, people tried to prevent hunger, illness, injury, and death by:

A) making plans.
B) living together.
C) prayers, rituals, and sacrifices.
D) working together.
E) all of these.

Question 18

Which is not an example of a primary prevention program?

A) Nurse-Family Partnership Program
B) Alcoholics Anonymous
C) Vaccination against smallpox
D) Stress management training for healthy persons

Question 19

If parents noticed that their teenage child was beginning to use alcohol and obtained help for their child, this would be an example of:

A) primary prevention.
B) secondary prevention.
C) tertiary prevention.
D) quaternary prevention.

Question 20

Active primary prevention strategies include:

A) TV programs demonstrating how problems develop.
B) newspaper articles describing problems.
C) developing coping skills in target populations.
D) going to a therapist.
E) all of these.

Question 21

Most human services workers are given significant training in the prevention of mental and physical illness.

Question 22

Define and provide one example each of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.

Question 23

Many diseases or disorders have been eliminated through treatment alone.

Question 24

How can political issues be an obstacle to the development of primary prevention programs?

Question 25

More money is spent throughout the U.S. on primary prevention programs than on treatment programs.

Question 26

Society pays a huge financial cost for disorders that are not prevented.

Question 27

Community psychology is one of the few but growing number of human services professions that recognizes the critical importance of primary prevention.

Question 28

How are passive and active strategies different from one another? Be as specific as possible and cite an example for each.

Question 29

The acknowledged inability of treatment and rehabilitation programs alone to stem the tide of people in need of human services makes increased primary prevention efforts almost mandatory.

Question 30

According to your text, why is prevention so important in human services? Provide at least two examples.