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Test Bank for Morrison-Valfre's Foundations of Mental Health Care in Canada, 1st Edition by Boris Bard, Eric MacMullin & Jacqueline Williamson — Complete Questions & Answers, Chapters 1–33

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This is a complete Test Bank for Morrison-Valfre's Foundations of Mental Health Care in Canada, First Edition, by Boris Bard, Eric MacMullin, and Jacqueline Williamson. The document is a Test Bank — not a study guide or solution manual — and contains chapter-by-chapter multiple-choice and multiple-response questions, each accompanied by the correct answer, a detailed rationale, cognitive level (Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis), page reference, learning objective, nursing process step, and quality/ safety tags. Coverage spans all 33 chapters: the history of mental health care (ancient Greece and Rome, the Renaissance, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, influences of war, psychotherapeutic medications); mental health care in Canada (Canada Health Act principles, epidemiology, cultural and social issues, inpatient versus outpatient care, community resources and case management); ethical and legal concepts (values clarification, confidentiality, patient rights, the duty to warn, negligence, fraud, involuntary commitment); cultural and spiritual issues (cultural assessment, health and illness beliefs, traditional medicine, refugee mental health); theories of personality and development (psychoanalytic, psychosocial, cognitive, humanistic, behavioural, developmental, nursing theories); psychotherapeutic medications (antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antianxiety agents, antipsychotics, side effects, patient teaching, nonadherence); internal and external challenges of adulthood (parenting, work, divorce, bereavement, poverty, homelessness); older adulthood (ageism, elder abuse, depression, dementia, sleep, polypharmacy); childhood and adolescent disorders (ADHD, intellectual development disorder, learning and communication disorders, autism spectrum, eating disorders, chemical dependency, suicide); anxiety and related disorders (levels of anxiety, defence mechanisms, panic disorder, phobias, OCD, PTSD, therapeutic interventions); the nurse–patient relationship (phases, roles, boundaries, transference, countertransference); therapeutic communication (elements, barriers, therapeutic and nontherapeutic techniques); the therapeutic milieu (safety, consistency, reality therapy); crisis intervention and adaptation; loss and grief (stages of grieving, Kübler-Ross, hospice care); depression and mood disorders (major depression, bipolar disorder, dysthymia, seasonal affective disorder, suicide risk); suicide (myths, risk assessment, interventions); physical and psychological sources of stress (somatic symptom and conversion disorders, malingering, factitious disorder); eating and sleeping disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, pica, insomnia, parasomnias); dissociative disorders (dissociative amnesia, fugue, identity disorder, depersonalization); anger, aggression and violence (assault cycle, domestic violence, child and elder abuse, restraint use); schizophrenia spectrum and other psychoses (positive and negative symptoms, delusions, hallucinations, antipsychotic side effects, neuroleptic malignant syndrome); personality disorders (eccentric, erratic, and fearful clusters); chronic mental health disorders and deinstitutionalization; and future challenges in mental health care. Each answer key includes a full explanation, making this Test Bank ideal for exam preparation, self-testing, homework support, and instructor use.

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TEST BANK
Morrison-Valfre’s Foundations of Mental Health Care in Canada 1st Edition


Boris Bard, Eric MacMullin & Jacqueline Williamson

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Table of Contents

Chapter 01 The History of Mental Health Care 1
Chapter 02 Current Mental Health Care Systems 9
Chapter 03 Ethical and Legal Issues 17
Chapter 04 Sociocultural Issues 26
Chapter 05 Theories and Therapies 34
Chapter 06 Complementary and Alternative Therapies 43
Chapter 07 Psychotherapeutic Medication Therapy 51
Chapter 08 Principles and Skills of Mental Health Care 60
Chapter 09 Mental Health Assessment Skills 69
Chapter 10 Therapeutic Communication 78
Chapter 11 The Therapeutic Relationship 88
Chapter 12 The Therapeutic Environment 98
Chapter 13 Challenges of Childhood 107
Chapter 14 Challenges of Adolescence 116
Chapter 15 Challenges of Adulthood 125
Chapter 16 Challenges of Late Adulthood 134
Chapter 17 Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia 141
Chapter 18 Managing Anxiety 150
Chapter 19 Illness and Hospitalization
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Chapter 20 Loss and Grief 168
Chapter 21 Depression and Other Mood Disorders 177
Chapter 22 Physical Challenges, Psychological Sources 185
Chapter 23 Eating and Sleeping Disorders 193
Chapter 24 Dissociative Disorders 201
Chapter 25 Anger and Aggression 210
Chapter 26 Outward-Focused Emotions-Violence 218
Chapter 27 Inward-Focused Emotions-Suicide 226
Chapter 28 Substance-Related Disorders 234
Chapter 29 Sexuality and Sexual Disorders 242
Chapter 30 Personality Disorders 250
Chapter 31 Brain Function, Schizophrenia, and Other Psychoses 258
Chapter 32 Chronic Mental Health Disorders 266
Chapter 33 Challenges for the Future
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Chapter 1: The History of Mental Health Care
Morrison-Valfre’s Foundations of Mental Health Care in Canada, First Edition


MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The belief of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato that the rational soul controlled the irration
al soul could be compared with the belief of which more recent psychological theorist?
a. Freud
b. Pinel
c. Fisher
d. Rush
ANS: A
Sigmund Freud believed that mental illness was, in part, caused by forces both within and ou
tside the personality. Philippe Pinel advocated acceptance of mentally ill individuals as huma
n beings in need of medical assistance. Alice Fisher was a nurse who trained at the Florence
Nightingale Training School and cared for the mentally ill. Dr. Benjamin Rush was the author
of the book Diseases of the Mind.

PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Early Years
OBJ: 1 KEY: Nursing Process Step: Assessment MSC: Foundations of Practice

2. During the mid-
1500s, behaviours associated with mental illness began to be more accurately recorded by pro
fessionals. This practice led to
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for different abnormal beha
viours.
a. Classifications
b. Diagnosing
c. Treatment
d. Education
ANS: A
Classification of abnormal behaviours did not begin until this time, after the practice of more acc
urately recording behaviours had started. Diagnoses, treatment guidelines, and education regard
ing mental health disorders were not available during this period.

PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: The Renaissance
OBJ: 1 KEY: Nursing Process Step: Assessment MSC: Foundations of Practice
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3. During the latter part of the eighteenth century, psychiatry became a separate branch of medi
cine, and inhumane treatment was greatly diminished by which French hospital director?
a. Dix
b. Beers
c. Pinel
d. Carter
ANS: C
Philippe Pinel advocated acceptance of the mentally ill as well as proper treatment. Dorothea
Dix crusaded for construction of mental health hospitals. Clifford Beers wrote the book A Mi
nd That Found Itself. President Jimmy Carter established the President’s Commission on Me
ntal Health in 1978.

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