NFDN 2007 TEST BANK MIDTERM EXAM 2025-2026
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what was the insanity act Mental health act
changed to?
a state of well-
What is mental health
being Being
content with life
Diagnosable disorder of thought, mood, or behavior that
mental illness
causes distress or impaired functioning
The purpose of the DSM-5 is descriptions of the symptoms associated with categories of
to provide disorders
Poverty
Family conflict
Risk factors for mental health or violence
Neglect early in
childhood
Having a parent with substance
abuse problem Living in
inadequate housing
Coping with illness
Religious and spiritual
Improving
beliefs can play a role in?
quality of life
Sustaining
recovery
what is the DSM-5? Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Provincial statue
Mental health act Updated from the
insanity act Protects
the rights of patients
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Person has a mental disorder,
Is likely to cause harm to self or others or to suffer
MHA admission criteria
substantial mental or physical deterioration or serious
physical impairment,
Is unsuitable for admission to a facility other than as a formal
patient
How long is the first 24 hours
admission certificate good
for?
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Treat the client as voluntary
After 24 hours, what can Discharge the client - condition is resolved
occur? Issue a 2nd admission certificate - can hold the client up to 30
days
◦ Admission certificates
◦ Judges warrant for apprehension
◦ Police Officer's power
What does the mental
◦ Review panel
health act consist of? ◦ Treatment orders
◦ Control
◦ Patient's rights
What is mandatory Treatment in the community if you do not comply you must go
outpatient treatment? MOT back to a facility
Form of mandatory outpatient treatment
Community treatment order?
CTO Issued for people with severe mental health concerns
Integ
rity
Vera
Ethical Principles
city
Fideli
ty
Non
maleficenc
e
Autonomy
Justice
First Nations Came into play to replace the word Indian
Indian Collectively describes all indigenous people in Canada who are
not metis or Inuit
Inuit Aboriginal people in northern Canada
Metis People of mixed Native American and French Canadian descent
Institutionalized
Colonialism
Political domination of one nation over another
Assimilation Government policy to "Canadianize" aboriginal peoples
historical trauma Cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over the
lifespan
Institutions that were part of the assimilative policies
Residential Schools
that the Canadian government directed at aboriginal
peoples from the 1880s onward.
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