Deck 12: Mental Health

Question 1

Gregory has been diagnosed with depression by his psychiatrists;however,he does not really report experiencing negative affect.He primarily experiences stomach and sleep problems.Which of the following most accurately characterizes Gregory's experience?

A)he's lying
B)lack of insight
C)psychologization
D)anti-psychologization
E)somatization

Answer 1

somatization

Question 2

As discussed in the textbook,which of the following questions does NOT represent a difficulty with defining what constitutes a psychological disorder?

A)When does one consider a behavior that interferes with one's life as a disorder?
B)How is the particular condition in question being treated-medically or psychotherapeutically?
C)What if a behavior is considered abnormal elsewhere but not in the West?
D)What if a condition does not manifest psychologically?
E)All of these questions represent a difficulty in defining a psychological disorder.

Answer 2

How is the particular condition in question being treated-medically or psychotherapeutically?

Question 3

When comparing Morita therapy and Naikan therapy,which of the following is TRUE?

A)Morita therapy encourages one to exercise secondary control,whereas Naikan therapy does not.
B)Morita therapy encourages one to exercise secondary control,whereas Naikan therapy encourages one to exercise primary control.
C)Naikan therapy encourages one to exercise secondary control,whereas Morita therapy encourages one to exercise primary control.
D)Naikan therapy is more difficult and more expensive than Morita therapy due to different demands on the therapist.
E)Both Naikan therapy and Morita therapy have been successfully utilized in Western cultures to reform prison inmates.

Answer 3

Morita therapy encourages one to exercise secondary control,whereas Naikan therapy does not.

Question 4

Diagnoses of social anxiety disorder are

A)largely constant across industrialized societies around the world.
B)higher in interdependent cultural contexts.
C)lower among East Asians than among North Americans.
D)increasing in the West over the past few decades.
E)tough to compare across cultures due to different interpretations.

Question 5

Suicide rates

A)vary across cultures as much as they do because definitions of suicide similarly vary.
B)among adolescents is the highest in the world in Japan.
C)in the United States are among the highest in the world.
D)in most cultures tend to decrease as people get older.
E)None of these statements is true.

Question 6

Taijin kyoufushou differs from social anxiety disorder in that

A)it is a more debilitating condition than social anxiety disorder.
B)social anxiety disorder is only found in the West,and taijin kyofusho is only found in East Asia.
C)it is a psychotic condition,whereas social anxiety disorder is a neurotic condition.
D)it involves some imagined physical symptoms that social anxiety disorder does not.
E)it involves therapists known as rentaru oneesan.

Question 7

Which of the following is not an example of a culture-bound syndrome?

A)taijin kyofushou
B)dhat syndrome
C)hikikomori
D)latah
E)neurasthenia

Question 8

Studies of rates of schizophrenia across nations find that

A)incidence rates of schizophrenia do not vary much from country to country.
B)patients with schizophrenia in less developed countries tend to fare better over time than those from more developed countries.
C)people who present psychotic symptoms that were inconsistent with a diagnosis of schizophrenia were not included in the studies.
D)subtypes of schizophrenia vary substantially from country to country.
E)All of these statements are true.

Question 9

Anorexia nervosa is best considered a

A)culture-bound syndrome.
B)accessibility universal.
C)existential universal.
D)functional universal.
E)nonuniversal.

Question 10

Which of the following people have brain fag syndrome?

A)Before sailing by sea,Person A forgot to pray to the local sea gods and is later overcome by drowsiness and sickness.
B)After having been scared,Person B felt as though his soul had become dislodged from his body.
C)After having been scared,Person C fell into a transient state and began barking like a dog.
D)Upon feeling anxious,Person D felt a burning sensation,a loss of breath,and difficulty sleeping.
E)After intensely cramming for an exam for a full week,Person E feels like she cannot see as well,and feels like her head and neck are burning.

Question 11

A key distinction between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa is that

A)around the world,rates of anorexia have been increasing,whereas rates of bulimia have been decreasing.
B)the self-evaluation of people with bulimia are not unduly influenced by their body weight.
C)anorexia is largely limited to Western culture.
D)bulimia is a culture-bound syndrome.
E)neither of them are existential universals.

Question 12

Lesotho lives in a nation with many islands.He is about to travel to another island to meet his girlfriend;but in his haste,he forgot to pray to the local gods.After his trip,he falls terribly ill and feels very tired.These symptoms compel his village doctor to diagnose him with

A)malgri.
B)ataques de nervios.
C)brain fag syndrome.
D)latah.
E)voodoo death.

Question 13

A culture-bound syndrome is,by definition,a(n)

A)accessibility universal.
B)nonuniversal.
C)functional universal.
D)existential universal.
E)human universal.

Question 14

Depression is a condition that is

A)found in every culture that has been explored.
B)largely absent in China.
C)a culture-bound disorder.
D)found at similar rates in the population in all industrialized societies.
E)largely absent in subsistence societies.

Question 15

Which of the following therapists is most accurately being described as demonstrating cultural competence?

A)Therapist A is well trained in the cultural perspectives of different cultures.
B)Therapist B works as part of a cultural consultation service.
C)Therapist C is familiar with his own cultural background's effect on his perspectives and strives to understand the cultural perspective of his clients.
D)Therapist D is a practitioner of both Morita therapy and Naikan therapy.
E)Therapist E works as an anthropologist as part of the cultural consultation service.

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT a part of how people view mental illness in the Yoruba?

A)Ahi
B)Emi
C)Ara
D)Ori
E)All of these are a part of how people view mental illness in the Yoruba.

Question 17

Wendy,an American patient with depression,reports feeling suicidal,with depressed mood and trouble sleeping.She is prescribed antidepressants.Weiwei,a Chinese patient with depression,is

A)less likely to report sleep complaints.
B)less likely to report depressed mood.
C)more likely to take anti-depressants.
D)more likely to become suicidal.
E)more likely to also have schizophrenia.

Question 18

Koro is manifested by

A)a male who feels extreme anxiety that his penis may be perceived as being extremely small.
B)a female who is deathly afraid of the cold and bundles herself up in as much clothing as possible.
C)a male who goes off on a rampage and kills anyone he sees,but remembers nothing from the episode.
D)a female patient who is deathly afraid that her nipples are shrinking into her body.
E)a male who has a morbid fear that someone has put a curse on him,and that the curse must be lifted to save his life.

Question 19

Your sister just got a new job.Her role is to be a surrogate sister for a teenage boy who has not unlocked himself from his room for a year.Ultimately,her job is to try to get the boy to get out of the house.What condition does this boy have?

A)taijin kyoufushou
B)dhat syndrome
C)hikikomori
D)susto
E)amaterasu

Question 20

One foreign country has four aboriginal tribes.The Kohlrabis live in the rainforest,culturally quite distant from the mainstream culture.The Brackens live along the coast,and have very few connections to their traditional past.The Horabs live in the prairies,culturally very similar to the mainstream culture.The Lithes live in the mountains,and have greatly maintained connections to their traditional past.Based on Chandler and colleagues' research on Canadian First Nation youths,which tribe would one expect to be associated with higher youth suicides?

A)the Kohlrabis
B)the Brackens
C)the Horabs
D)the Lithes
E)Chandler's research does not address this issue.

Question 21

Which of the following about social anxiety disorder is TRUE?

A)Social anxiety disorder appears to be a culture-bound disorder.
B)East Asians receive more treatment for social anxiety disorder than do North Americans.
C)Symptoms of social anxiety disorder among East Asians include fears that one is making others uncomfortable because of their sweating and body odor.
D)East Asians score higher on trait measures of social anxiety disorder than do North Americans.
E)None of these statements is true.

Question 22

Delilah was just in a graveyard and was extremely frightened by the fact that she felt she saw the ghost of her mother.She was so frightened that she felt like her soul was dislodged from her body.What is her experience an example of?

A)susto
B)amok
C)latah
D)malgri
E)voodoo death

Question 23

You are a therapist who is hoping to treat a patient by asking him to understand his own past,accept that his past is a part of him,and to learn to feel gratitude and guilt toward those around him.What type of treatment is this?

A)cognitive behavioral therapy
B)client-centered therapy
C)Naikan therapy
D)Morita therapy
E)psychoanalytic therapy

Question 24

The textbook discusses that the likelihood of developing schizophrenia has clear genetic factors.So according to the textbook,if Maria has schizophrenia,what are the chances that her twin sister,Anca,will also have schizophrenia?

A)0%
B)50%
C)>50%
D)<50%
E)Rates change depending on the type of schizophrenia.

Question 25

According to the textbook,which of the following patients with schizophrenia is going to have the best outcome?

A)Vanness,who lives with his family in a developed society
B)Jordan,who lives by himself in a developed society
C)Malcolm,who has paranoid schizophrenia
D)Latiri,who lives with her family in a nondeveloped society
E)Maria,who has catatonic schizophrenia

Question 26

Based on the studies reported in the textbook on depression among Chinese,if Huang Bo is diagnosed with neurasthenia in China,how can one alternatively conceive of his diagnosis?

A)latent catatonic schizophrenia
B)koro
C)mild social anxiety disorder
D)paranoid schizophrenia,so Huang Bo will respond to antipsychotics
E)depression with somatization

Question 27

Which of the following about schizophrenia is TRUE?

A)Annual rates of incidents of schizophrenia vary widely across cultures.
B)Paranoid schizophrenia is much more common among the British than it is among Indians.
C)The course of schizophrenia is better for people in industrially advanced societies than it is in less developed ones.
D)Subtypes of schizophrenia do not vary much from culture to culture.
E)None of these statements is true.

Question 28

When comparing Minako,a Japanese,with Erica,an American,which of the following will likely be true?

A)Minako will be more likely to develop social anxiety disorder than Erica.
B)Compared to Minako,Erica will be less likely to develop social anxiety disorder.
C)Compared to Erica,Minako will not be treated as negatively by others if she shows certain symptoms of social anxiety to her compatriots.
D)Minako will develop taijin kyoufushou.
E)Compared to Erica,Minako will be more likely to seek professional help if she develops social anxiety disorder.

Question 29

Jeeyoung is an East Asian student who is going through a tough time.Given her emotional situation,which of the following is she most likely to do to make herself feel better?

A)seek professional help
B)seek the help of her close others
C)remind herself of her connections with others
D)introspect and solve the problems herself
E)drown her sorrows in alcohol

Question 30

Stephen and Jon are both diagnosed with a form of anxiety disorder.The difference between them is that Stephen's primary symptoms are feeling anxious,mood fluctuations,and other mental issues.Jon's symptoms,on the other hand,are discomfort in the chest,headaches,and diarrhea.Which of the following best explains the differences in the symptoms that the two are suffering?

A)Jon's anxiety disorder is less severe than Stephen's.
B)Jon's anxiety disorder is more severe than Stephen's.
C)Stephen is concerned about how others might see him,while Jon is not.
D)Stephen is East Asian,and Jon is North American.
E)Stephen is going through psychologization,whereas Jon is experiencing somatization.