1. During the 1800s, what did Pinel believe that the cure for mental illness was?
A) arrest and confinement
B) early psychotherapy
C) humane treatment
D) the use of chains
2. Who was the psychiatrist who suggested the term “mental hygiene”?
A) Clarence Hincks
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Philippe Pinel
D) Adolf Meyer
3. Before the 19th century, seriously mentally ill clients with severely disturbing
behaviour were usually cared for by:
A) family members at home.
B) spiritual healers in asylums.
C) laypersons in hospitals.
D) staff in prisons and poorhouses.
4. Which variable of communities had the most influence on the early forms of
institutional ways of caring for the mentally ill people?
A) quality of housing and number of professionals
B) social stability and availability of resources
C) political climate and public policy
D) legal structure and role of nurses
5. Which factor has been historically related to increased intolerance and ill
treatment of people with mental disorders?
A) social change and instability
B) increased family size and mobility
C) emphasis on religious beliefs
D) increased number of asylums treating mentally ill
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, 6. Which effects of industrialization and urbanization contributed positively to the
humane treatment of mentally afflicted treatment? Select all that apply.
A) the growing number of poor and deviant people who were not able to sustain
themselves
B) more general anxieties during a period of rapid social change and instability
C) moral, pedagogical treatment that would help restore innate capacity for self-
control
D) the Enlightenment, which changed medical and social ideas about mental illness
E) recognition of mental illness by the medical community
7. Which was a primary reform accomplished by Dorothea Lynde Dix?
A) establishment of “commitment” laws in state legislatures
B) introducing compassion to the care of mentally ill clients
C) use of music to treat mentally ill clients
D) use of exercise therapy to treat mentally ill clients
8. Which province in Canada was first to open a mental institution in 1835?
A) Ontario
B) Nova Scotia
C) Quebec
D) New Brunswick
9. When did involuntary confinement and institutional care of mentally ill people
begin to be the foremost treatment modality?
A) the 17th and 18th centuries
B) end of the 20th century
C) beginning of the 19th century
D) last half of the 19th century
10. Which was developed in 1909 by the National Mental Health Committee for
Mental Hygiene?
A) mental health nurse training
B) stress management clinics
C) prison clinics
D) hydrotherapy centres
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A) arrest and confinement
B) early psychotherapy
C) humane treatment
D) the use of chains
2. Who was the psychiatrist who suggested the term “mental hygiene”?
A) Clarence Hincks
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Philippe Pinel
D) Adolf Meyer
3. Before the 19th century, seriously mentally ill clients with severely disturbing
behaviour were usually cared for by:
A) family members at home.
B) spiritual healers in asylums.
C) laypersons in hospitals.
D) staff in prisons and poorhouses.
4. Which variable of communities had the most influence on the early forms of
institutional ways of caring for the mentally ill people?
A) quality of housing and number of professionals
B) social stability and availability of resources
C) political climate and public policy
D) legal structure and role of nurses
5. Which factor has been historically related to increased intolerance and ill
treatment of people with mental disorders?
A) social change and instability
B) increased family size and mobility
C) emphasis on religious beliefs
D) increased number of asylums treating mentally ill
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, 6. Which effects of industrialization and urbanization contributed positively to the
humane treatment of mentally afflicted treatment? Select all that apply.
A) the growing number of poor and deviant people who were not able to sustain
themselves
B) more general anxieties during a period of rapid social change and instability
C) moral, pedagogical treatment that would help restore innate capacity for self-
control
D) the Enlightenment, which changed medical and social ideas about mental illness
E) recognition of mental illness by the medical community
7. Which was a primary reform accomplished by Dorothea Lynde Dix?
A) establishment of “commitment” laws in state legislatures
B) introducing compassion to the care of mentally ill clients
C) use of music to treat mentally ill clients
D) use of exercise therapy to treat mentally ill clients
8. Which province in Canada was first to open a mental institution in 1835?
A) Ontario
B) Nova Scotia
C) Quebec
D) New Brunswick
9. When did involuntary confinement and institutional care of mentally ill people
begin to be the foremost treatment modality?
A) the 17th and 18th centuries
B) end of the 20th century
C) beginning of the 19th century
D) last half of the 19th century
10. Which was developed in 1909 by the National Mental Health Committee for
Mental Hygiene?
A) mental health nurse training
B) stress management clinics
C) prison clinics
D) hydrotherapy centres
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