Table of Contents
UNIT ONE: MENTAL HEALTH CARE: PAST AND PRESENT
1. The History of Mental Health Care
2. Current Mental Health Care
3. Ethical and Legal Issues
4. Sociocultural Issues
5. Theories and Therapies
6. Complementary and Alternative Therapies
7. Psychotherapeutic Drug Therapy
UNIT TWO: THE CAREGIVER’S THERAPEUTIC SKILLS
8. Skills and Principles of Mental Health Care
9. Mental Health Assessment Skills
10. Therapeutic Communication
11. The Therapeutic Relationship
12. The Therapeutic Environment
UNIT THREE: MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS THROUGHOUT THE LIFE
CYCLE
13. Problems of Childhood
14. Problems of Adolescence
15. Problems of Adulthood
,16. Problems of Late Adulthood
17. Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Dementia
UNIT FOUR: CLIENTS WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
18. Managing Anxiety
19. Illness and Hospitalization
20. Loss and Grief
21. Depression and Other Mood Disorders
22. Physical Problems, Psychological Sources
23. Eating and Sleeping Disorders
24. Dissociative Disorders
UNIT FIVE: CLIENTS WITH PSYCHOSOCIAL PROBLEMS
25. Anger and Aggression
26. Outward-Focused Emotions: Violence
27. Inward-Focused Emotions: Suicide
28. Substance-Related Disorders
29. Sexual Disorders
30. Personality Disorders
31. Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses
32. Chronic Mental Health Disorders
33. Challenges for the Future
, Foundations of Mental Health Care 6th Edition Morrison-Valfre Test Bank
Chapter 01: The History of Mental Health Care
Morrison-Valfre: Foundations of Mental Health Care, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The belief of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato that the rational soul
controlled the irrational soul could be compared with the belief of the 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 outside the personality. Philippe Pinel advocated acceptance of
mentally ill individuals as human beings in need of medical assistance. Alice
Fisher was a Florence Nightingale nurse who cared for the mentally ill, and Dr.
Benjamin Rush was the author of the book Diseases of the Mind.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: ComprehensionREF: p.
4 OBJ: 2 TOP: Early Years of Mental Health
KEY: Nursing Process Step: Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
2. During the mid-1500s, behaviors associated with mental illness were more
accurately recorded by professionals. This practice led to for different
abnormal
behaviors.
a. Classificatio .
ns
b. Diagnosing
c. Treatment
d. Education
ANS: A
Classification of abnormal behaviors did not begin until this time, after the
practice of more accurate recording of behaviors was begun. Diagnoses,
treatment guidelines, and any education regarding mental health disorders
were not available during this period.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p.
5 OBJ: 3 TOP: Mental Illness During the Renaissance
KEY: Nursing Process Step: Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
3. During the latter part of the eighteenth century, psychiatry became a
separate branch of medicine, and inhumane treatment was greatly
diminished by the French hospital director:
a. Dix
b. Beers
c. Pinel
d. Carter