Chapter 1

Question 1

What is the main issue with government approach to mental health?

Answer 1

Too little funding for mental health programs

Question 2

What is the Improved Access to Psychological Therapies program in the UK?

Answer 2

sending two-thirds of people with mental health issues to psychological therapies within a month of referral with half entering treatment showing improvement

Question 3

What does WHO cite as the biggest issues with mental health?

Answer 3

overlooking or misdiagnosing mental disorder and not getting treatment regardless of social determinate of health

Question 4

A provincial and federal organization designed using testimonies to address the needs of Canadians with mental disorders

Answer 4

Mental Health Commission of Canada

Question 5

What did the Senate Commission on Mental health learn about mental health services?

Answer 5

Need for increased government investment and a unified mental health services

Question 6

What are the six initiatives of MHCC?

Answer 6

Opening minds, Mental Health First Aid, Mental health strategy for Canada, Knowledge exchange centre, housing first, peer project

Question 7

What are the two messages of the MHCC?

Answer 7

1. The right to services and supports
2. The right to be treated with the same dignity and respect as those suffering from any other kind of illness

Question 8

What does poor diet, tobacco smoking, high BMI, high blood pressure, high fasting plasma glucose, and low physical activity have in common?

Answer 8

all lifestyle choices that increase risk of developing a psychological disorder

Question 9

A branch of psychology that develops strategies and interventions for mental health disorders

Answer 9

clinical psychology

Question 10

What are the principals of chinical psychology?

Answer 10

using scientific based evidence, develop effective tools, focus on emotional distress and well-being, use reliable and valid methods

Question 11

What services do clinical psychologist provide?

Answer 11

consultations, research program development, supervision of mental health professional, administration of health care services, diagnosis, treatment programs, interventions and prevention services.

Question 12

A model that involves using research and collected data when considering health care options

Answer 12

evidence based practice

Question 13

What are the two prinicpals of evidence based practice?

Answer 13

1. use systematically collected data and research
2. inform patients on options

Question 14

Issues with evidence based practice

Answer 14

1. group-based data can not be used on an individual
2. clients can’t always wait for research to conclude
3. individuals are different
4. there is not enough research on every disorder

Question 15

What makes clinical psychology different to other types of psychology?

Answer 15

clinical is about application while others are about general knowledge

Question 16

what are the historical differences between counselling and clinical?

Answer 16

Counselling focused on life problems and work in community. Clinical focused on psychological problems and work in hospitals and labs.

Question 17

What is the modern distinction between counselling and clinical?

Answer 17

counselling provides only therapy while clinical designs programs and provides therapy

Question 18

Why is the distinction between clinical and counselling becoming less noticeable?

Answer 18

require same training and expertise in diagnosis and both use evidence-based services

Question 19

Psychologists with specialized training in the education system, children, intellectual functioning, and learning.

Answer 19

School psychologists

Question 20

What is the role of school psychologists

Answer 20

attention to social, emotional, and medical development in school, developing school and family programs, promoting social skills, reducing bullying and conflict, and violence prevention

Question 21

Medical professionals who specializing in mental health and their physiological and biochemical causes

Answer 21

psychiatrist

Question 22

What is the two main distinctions between psychiatrists and psychologists?

Answer 22

1. little training in human psychology research and base research in neuroscience and human sciences
2. emphasis on psychopharmacological treatment

Question 23

Who was the primary developer for cognitive therapy for depression?

Answer 23

psychiatrist Aaron Beck

Question 24

Workers that focus on the well-being and health of the community by program planning, advocacy, planning, therapy, and consultation

Answer 24

social workers

Question 25

Professionals who offer services of primary care in mental health, managing administration, providing education, and supervising services

Answer 25

psychiatric nurses

Question 26

Care workers that provide outpatient services, assessments and treatment to children

Answer 26

child and youth care workers

Question 27

An approach to understand both physical and psychological disorders in a wholistic way developed by Hippocrates.

Answer 27

biosychosoical approach

Question 28

A greek philosopher that empathized societal forces and psychological needs

Answer 28

plato

Question 29

a greek philosopher that emphasized biological determinate of mental health

Answer 29

Aristotle

Question 30

Who created the dominate approach in Europe and north America that proposed natural forces to be the cause of psychotic behaviour?

Answer 30

St. Vincent de Paul

Question 31

Primary developer of clinical neurology and the role of psychological factors in hysteria

Answer 31

Jean-Martin Charcot

Question 32

Who proposed that all mental disorders are biological and did early classification?

Answer 32

Emil Kraepelin

Question 33

Who developed the first intelligence tests?

Answer 33

Alfred Binet

Question 34

What was the main different between projective tests and the MMPI

Answer 34

Projective tests relied on clinical judgment while MMPI relied on statistical analysis

Question 35

Who proposed that a statistical approach is stronger then a clinical approach

Answer 35

Paul Meehl

Question 36

What are the two generally accepted ways to get data?

Answer 36

1. multiple methods
2. multiple informants

Question 37

What are modern best practices in assessment?

Answer 37

based in scientific support, using data for treatment planning and evelautation

Question 38

the determination of the usefulness of data

Answer 38

clinical utility

Question 39

examination of if services work

Answer 39

service evaluation

Question 40

Who is credited with developing the first elaborate approach to treatment?

Answer 40

Sigmund Freud

Question 41

What was the main contributions of the psychodynamic approach?

Answer 41

childhood development impacts future emotional regulation and risk of developing psychological disorders, and we use defence mechanisms to cope with the trauma.

Question 42

What made Jung’s model different from Freud’s?

Answer 42

On top of an individual unconsciousness, there is also a collective unconsciousness

Question 43

Who emphasized the importance of social forces and social pressures as a cause of disorders and also a way to treat them?

Answer 43

Alfred Adler

Question 44

Who emphasized the role of a conscious effort to combat unconscious forces that cause problems?

Answer 44

Anna Freud

Question 45

What was unique about Carl Roger’s new approach for veterans?

Answer 45

people are inherently capable of developing in a positive manner and should be provided with a positive environment.

Question 46

Who came up with person-centred therapy and the humanistic perspective?

Answer 46

Carl Rogers

Question 47

Who created cognitive behavioural therapy?

Answer 47

Aaron Back and Albert Ellis

Question 48

A branch of psychology about living to our full potential and not just trying to relieve stress

Answer 48

positive psychology