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The History of Mental Health

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What continuum refers to behaviors over a broad spectrum?

a)

longevity continuum

b)

wellness continuum

c)

health-illness continuum

d)

activity continuum

2.

A client's ability to cope with and adjust to recurrent stress of living in an acceptable way is:

a)

health promotion

b)

illness prevention

c)

longevity

d)

mental health

3.

What is the disturbance in one's ability to cope effectively?

a)

mental instability

b)

mental illness

c)

disease dimension

d)

disease development

4.

what term refers to the overabundance or lack of one or more humors resulting in illness?

a)

existentialism

b)

humoral theory of disease

c)

passive immunity

d)

lunacy

5.

who single-handedly sought to reform the care of the mentally ill during the 1800s

a)

Florence Nightingale

b)

Lillian Wald

c)

Isabelle Rob Hampton

d)

Dorothea Dix

6.

Passing electricity though the client's head to improve depression is called:

a)

electroconvulsive therapy

b)

postive reinforcement

c)

negative reinforcement

d)

hydrotherapy

7.

a surgical procedure that severs the frontal loves of the brain from the thalamus to eliminate almost all violent behaviors is called:

a)

craniotomy

b)

trepanation

c)

lobotomy

d)

thalamotomy

8.

Psychotherapeutic actions refer to a drug's effect on:

a)

the body

b)

the mind

c)

the spirit

d)

the soul

9.

the release of large numbers of mentally ill persons into the community is called:

a)

outpatient therapy

b)

catchment

c)

institutionalization

d)

deinstitutionalization

10.

the mental health bill that addressed community mental health care and clients' rights and established priorities for research and training was the:

a)

mental health systems act

b)

omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1981

c)

omnibus budget reform act

d)

president's commission on mental health