2025 MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES STUDY GUIDE CORE QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
What are Private Mental Health Services? - 1) Services are provided to individuals who
do have insurance or can afford to pay for their own services
2) Sometimes private insurance won't cover the needed services (Ex: only outpatient,
no groups, or partial impatient)
What is Mental Health Policy? - 1) All governmental activities involved in the prevention
and treatment of mental disorders as well as with the living situations of mentally ill
persons
2) Improvements in mental health status of the population are the ultimate objective
What is the Basis of Social Allocation? - - Refers to who and who gets what? (medicaid,
snap, etc)
What are the Types of Social Provisions to be Allocated? - - Case management,
psychosocial therapy, rehabilitation, etc.
What are the Strategies for the Delivery of these Provisions? - 1) Outpatient, impatient,
partial hospitalization (options within services)
2) Adequately qualified staff
What are the Methods for Financing these Provisions? - - Medicaid, grant, sliding fee
* Very rare to have unrestricted funds
What are the 4 Organizations that Influence Policy? - 1) NAMI (National Alliance on
Mental Illness)
2) DBSA (Depressive Bipolar Support Alliance)
3) MHA (Mental Health America)
4) MH consumers
What was President George W. Bush's role in mental health policy? - 1) 2001 GWB
announced initiative to review mental health services (public and private; stigma,
maltreatment, and financial troubles))
2) Goal: recommend improvements to enable adults with serious MI and children with
emotional disturbances to live and participate in their communtities
3) Vision: A future when everyone w/ MI will recover, MI can be prevented, cured, and
detected early
What does State & Local Mental Health Policy look like? - 1) Community mental health
boards (708 board; a way to tax citizens to fund mental health services)
2) Local area networks of providers
3) Mental Health Associations
4) NAMI affiliates
5) Consumer groups
6) Kennedy Forum (parity: extend insurance coverage without questioning)
, What are the 2 types of policies in mental health? - 1) Dejure policies
2) Defacto policies
What are Dejure policies? - - Explained in documents, laws, and mission statements
What are Defacto policies? - - Developed out of practice at the direct service level
What is Social Work's role in Mental Health Services? - 1) Significance (largest
providers of clinical mental health services at all levels)
2) Services
3) Training (trained to address mental health issues)
What are the Federal roles in Mental Health? - 1) Legislation and Regulations
a) Takes longer, passed cause larger impact
2) Protections
a) Work to help individuals with MH disorder at
work, in school, and in treatment
b) Prohibit abuse, discrimination, provide
accommodations for them
c) ADA accommodates people with physical
disabilities, but less with MI
3) Role of Funding Services
a) Funding stream to MH services under
medicare, VA, medicaid (half), CHIP (half)
b) Mental health block grants - support states
development of community mental health
services in the state
4) Research
a) Funding for mental health research causes,
treatment, and recovery
b) National Institute of Mental Health,
Substance and MH Services Administration
What are the State roles in Mental Health? - 1) Legislation and regulations
a) how treatment centers are run via policy
and regulation
2) Protections
a) Power to follow fed govt, or increase those
protections (some states have stronger
protections than others)
3) Role of Funding Services
a) Wide range among different states, half
funding for medicaid and CHIP
b) Decides which county needs money for
services
WITH ANSWERS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
What are Private Mental Health Services? - 1) Services are provided to individuals who
do have insurance or can afford to pay for their own services
2) Sometimes private insurance won't cover the needed services (Ex: only outpatient,
no groups, or partial impatient)
What is Mental Health Policy? - 1) All governmental activities involved in the prevention
and treatment of mental disorders as well as with the living situations of mentally ill
persons
2) Improvements in mental health status of the population are the ultimate objective
What is the Basis of Social Allocation? - - Refers to who and who gets what? (medicaid,
snap, etc)
What are the Types of Social Provisions to be Allocated? - - Case management,
psychosocial therapy, rehabilitation, etc.
What are the Strategies for the Delivery of these Provisions? - 1) Outpatient, impatient,
partial hospitalization (options within services)
2) Adequately qualified staff
What are the Methods for Financing these Provisions? - - Medicaid, grant, sliding fee
* Very rare to have unrestricted funds
What are the 4 Organizations that Influence Policy? - 1) NAMI (National Alliance on
Mental Illness)
2) DBSA (Depressive Bipolar Support Alliance)
3) MHA (Mental Health America)
4) MH consumers
What was President George W. Bush's role in mental health policy? - 1) 2001 GWB
announced initiative to review mental health services (public and private; stigma,
maltreatment, and financial troubles))
2) Goal: recommend improvements to enable adults with serious MI and children with
emotional disturbances to live and participate in their communtities
3) Vision: A future when everyone w/ MI will recover, MI can be prevented, cured, and
detected early
What does State & Local Mental Health Policy look like? - 1) Community mental health
boards (708 board; a way to tax citizens to fund mental health services)
2) Local area networks of providers
3) Mental Health Associations
4) NAMI affiliates
5) Consumer groups
6) Kennedy Forum (parity: extend insurance coverage without questioning)
, What are the 2 types of policies in mental health? - 1) Dejure policies
2) Defacto policies
What are Dejure policies? - - Explained in documents, laws, and mission statements
What are Defacto policies? - - Developed out of practice at the direct service level
What is Social Work's role in Mental Health Services? - 1) Significance (largest
providers of clinical mental health services at all levels)
2) Services
3) Training (trained to address mental health issues)
What are the Federal roles in Mental Health? - 1) Legislation and Regulations
a) Takes longer, passed cause larger impact
2) Protections
a) Work to help individuals with MH disorder at
work, in school, and in treatment
b) Prohibit abuse, discrimination, provide
accommodations for them
c) ADA accommodates people with physical
disabilities, but less with MI
3) Role of Funding Services
a) Funding stream to MH services under
medicare, VA, medicaid (half), CHIP (half)
b) Mental health block grants - support states
development of community mental health
services in the state
4) Research
a) Funding for mental health research causes,
treatment, and recovery
b) National Institute of Mental Health,
Substance and MH Services Administration
What are the State roles in Mental Health? - 1) Legislation and regulations
a) how treatment centers are run via policy
and regulation
2) Protections
a) Power to follow fed govt, or increase those
protections (some states have stronger
protections than others)
3) Role of Funding Services
a) Wide range among different states, half
funding for medicaid and CHIP
b) Decides which county needs money for
services
