(5th Edition)
- 500 Multiple Choice Questions on Counseling Models, Approaches, and Interventions
,Chapter 1
Who is considered the founder of modern nursing?
a. Dorothea Dix
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Linda Richards
d. Lavinia Dock
ANS: b
2. What was Florence Nightingale's most notable contribution?
a. Opening the first nursing school
b. Improving hospital sanitation during the Crimean War
c. Writing influential textbooks on nursing
d. All of the above
ANS: d
3. Dorothea Dix focused her advocacy efforts on which population?
a. The elderly
b. Prisoners
c. Veterans
d. The mentally ill
ANS: d
4. What were early facilities for the mentally ill originally called?
, a. Hospitals
b. Asylums
c. Institutes
d. Clinics
ANS: b
5. Deinstitutionalization in the 1960s was intended to:
a. Close all state-run asylums
b. Shift care to community-based programs
c. Eliminate treatment for the mentally ill
d. Increase homelessness among the mentally ill
ANS: b
6. What major law funded the development of community mental health
centers?
a. Americans with Disabilities Act
b. Community Mental Health Act
c. Lanterman–Petris–Short Act
d. Patient's Bill of Rights
ANS: b
7. What type of medications expanded treatment options beyond
institutionalization?
, a. Herbal remedies
b. Antidepressants
c. Psychotropic medications
d. Alternative therapies
ANS: c
8. What nation did Florence Nightingale help during the Crimean War?
a. England
b. France
c. United States
d. Canada
ANS: a
9. When did Dorothea Dix live?
a. 1800s-1900s
b. 1600s-1700s
c. 1700s-1800s
d. 1820-1887
ANS: d
10. What did Dorothea Dix suggest that governments establish for the
care of the mentally ill?
a. Hospitals