CHAPTER 3
PROBLEMS OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND TREATMENT
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The terms mental disorder and mental illness are often used interchangeably. However, in formal social-scientific writing, the term mental illness is often reserved for __________.
a. mental disorders that afflict women more often than men
b. mental disorders that require hospitalization or for which close medical supervision would normally be recommended
c. mental disorders that occur for long periods of time
d. mental disorders that may be helped by drugs
Answer: b
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
2. Approximately 80 percent of the world’s 450 million mentally disabled people live in __________.
a. developing nations
b. post-industrial societies
c. China
d. the United States
Answer: a
Topic: Introduction
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. The National Institute of Mental Health defines mental illness as having three components. Which is NOT one of these components?
a. a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder (excluding developmental or substance abuse disorders)
b. a diagnosable condition currently, or within the past year
c. a condition of sufficient duration to meet diagnostic criteria specified within the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V)
d. a condition in which work cannot be performed productively and fruitfully
Answer: d
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
4. Mental illness is a serious social problem __________.
a. because of the extent to which social institutions are strained by efforts to care for the mentally ill
b. because it occurs primarily among wealthy persons living in rural areas
c. because government programs such as Medicaid and the ACA no longer care for the mentally ill
d. because it is highly correlated with race
Answer: a
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate
5. Zack suffers from mental illness and like other persons with mental illness, he suffers twice. This means that the people affected suffer both __________.
a. mentally and physically
b. mentally and financially
c. illness and rejection
d. now and later
Answer: c
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
6. Deinstitutionalization refers to __________.
a. preparing a person for entry into a mental hospital
b. discharging patients from mental hospitals directly into the community
c. removing mental illnesses from coverage under insanity defenses in the criminal law
d. making sure that juveniles do not serve time in prisons for adults
Answer: b
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
7. The __________ perspective focuses on the “social construction” of mental illness, i.e., how interactions producing the label “mentally ill” may cause the labeled person to accept the definition and behave accordingly.
a. interactionist
b. conflict
c. functionalist
d. social disorganization
Answer: a
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
8. How we define “normal” and “deviant” behavior can lead to definitions of mental disorder. This process is part of what is termed the social __________ of mental illness.
a. reaffirmation
b. causation
c. remediation
d. construction
Answer: d
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
9. Dr. Keen is a sociologist who focuses on how social inequality and deprivation may be associated with mental illness. What perspective is Dr. Keen using?
a. conflict theorist
b. interactionist
c. functionalist
d. social disorganization
Answer: a
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
10. The __________ perspective focuses on how, in societies undergoing rapid social change, with separation from families and/or familiar social environments, mental illness can become a problem.
a. interactionist
b. conflict
c. functionalist
d. social disorganization
Answer: c
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
11. Dr. Richards is studying mental illness from an interactionist perspective. Which of the following is she most likely to focus on?
a. the ways in which mental illness is associated with deprivation and inequality
b. the ways that our definitions of “normal” and “deviant” behavior in social situations lead to definitions of mental disorders
c. the difference in the quality of care between more affluent patients and those with very little money
d. the manner in which societies marked by rapid social change can provide effective treatment to those who have a mental illness
Answer: b
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
12. According to the text’s discussion of suicide, __________.
a. not all suicide is related to mental illness
b. among the elderly, dementia is usually unrelated to depression
c. suicide is the 9th leading cause of death among young people aged 10–24
d. every 90 minutes, someone in the U.S. commits suicide
Answer: a
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
13. Jack believes that mental illness is a disease with biological causes, remedied primarily by treating the patient. Which model of mental illness does Jack believe in?
a. physical
b. physician
c. medical
d. deviance
Answer: c
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
14. The __________ model of mental illness argues that mental illness results from the way people who are considered mentally ill are treated.
a. medical
b. deviance
c. government power
d. treatment
Answer: b
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
15. For Thomas Scheff, the key step in residual deviance becoming a mental disorder is __________.
a. when society decides to label it as such
b. when the courts decide that this is the case
c. after the individual recognizes what he/she has done
d. when the patient is released from the mental hospital
Answer: a
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
16. Thomas Szasz argues that what most call mental illness should be regarded as __________.
a. criminal or deviant behavior
b. a physically based disorder
c. manifestations of unresolved problems in living
d. behavior that has biological or physiological causes
Answer: c
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate
17. The American Psychiatric Association’s standard manual of mental disorders is the __________.
a. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V)
b. Manual of the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders
c. Census of Mental Illness
d. Mental Illness Inventory
Answer: a
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Hung is a labeling theorist, and therefore tends to view schizophrenia as behavior that _______.
a. is criminal
b. violates society’s norms and expectations
c. has no social causes
d. indicates organic illness
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Answer: b
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
19. Roberto, a soldier in the Army, recently returned from Iraq where he saw heavy combat and witnessed a number of civilians killed. Since returning, he has nightmares, flashbacks, and has trouble concentrating on routine tasks. His family notices that he gets irritated at the smallest things. Chances are, Robert is suffering from __________.
a. ACA
b. HOME
c. ADHD
d. PTSD
Answer: d
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
20. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was previously referred to as __________.
a. schizophrenia
b. manic-depression
c. shell shock or combat fatigue
d. neurosis
Answer: c
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
21. Dr. Chen works on the STARRS study. Why did the U.S. government embark on the STARRS study?
a. to discover factors that help protect a soldier’s mental health and factors that put a soldier’s mental health at risk
b. to better understand issues surrounding mental illness among children whose parents receive welfare assistance
c. to examine sex differences in the risks of suicide
d. to discover the factors that contribute to depression and mental illness among the elderly
Answer: a
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Difficult
22. Which of the following was/were (an) important finding(s) of the Midtown Manhattan study of mental illness?
a. The percentage of the population with significantly impaired mental functioning was quite small, only 2–3 percent.
b. The highest rates of mental illness were in the wealthier, more affluent areas.
c. There appeared to be a relationship between parental socioeconomic status and the mental health of their children.
d. HIV patients had a greater incidence of mental health problems as compared to those with HIV who were not being treated.
Answer: c
Topic: Inequality, Conflict, and Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.3: Assess inequality and differences in mental illness.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate
23. Mandy works for the Department of Veteran Affairs. She is tabulating the number of people in the military who suffer from PTSD. This data will show the ______ of PTSD..
a. tenacity
b. incidence
c. drift
d. prevalence
Answer: d
Topic: Inequality, Conflict, and Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.3: Assess inequality and differences in mental illness.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
24. Matthew works for the State of California and studies the course of diseases in human populations. What is the name of Matthew’s occupation?
a. physician
b. epidemiologist
c. prevalence analyst
d. incidence analyst
Answer: b
Topic: Inequality, Conflict, and Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.3: Assess inequality and differences in mental illness.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
25. The explanation holding that social class is a consequence of mental disorder is termed the __________.
a. mobility thesis
b. class deprivation hypothesis
c. drift hypothesis
d. class stress hypothesis
Answer: c
Topic: Inequality, Conflict, and Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.3: Assess inequality and differences in mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
26. The drift hypothesis suggests that __________.
a. social class is a cause of mental disorder
b. social class and mental disorder are unrelated
c. people “drift” into mental illness
d. social class is a consequence of mental disorder
Answer: d
Topic: Inequality, Conflict, and Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.3: Assess inequality and differences in mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
27. Which group(s) have the highest rates of mental illness?
a. American Indians and Alaska Natives
b. Hispanics
c. Blacks
d. Whites
Answer: a
Topic: Inequality, Conflict, and Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.3: Assess inequality and differences in mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Easy
28. Women are much more likely than men to be diagnosed with severe depression. There are several reasons why this tendency may be the case. Which is NOT one of these reasons?
a. hormones
b. heart functioning
c. menopause
d. genetics
Answer: b
Topic: Inequality, Conflict, and Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.3: Assess inequality and differences in mental illness.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate
29. About ______ percent of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14.
a. 5
b. 20
c. 35
d. 50
Answer: d
Topic: Inequality, Conflict, and Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.3: Assess inequality and differences in mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. The two major approaches to the treatment of mental disorders are __________ and __________.
a. exercise; healthy diet
b. psychotherapy; medical treatment
c. drug therapy; involuntary institutionalization
d. surgery; psychotherapy
Answer: b
Topic: Methods of Treatment
Learning Objective 3.4: Compare treatment options for mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
31. Mental illness is person-specific. With respect to treatment, this means __________.
a. medical treatment must be combined with talk therapy
b. psychiatrists start with very low dosages of electric shock and slowly increase the dosage
c. treatment will differ; there is not one drug or treatment that works for everyone
d. there is no cure for mental illness
Answer: c
Topic: Methods of Treatment
Learning Objective 3.4: Compare treatment options for mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
32. Sigmund Freud pioneered __________ as a nonmedical form of treatment.
a. psychoanalysis
b. behavior modification
c. support group therapy
d. client-centered therapy
Answer: a
Topic: Methods of Treatment
Learning Objective 3.4: Compare treatment options for mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
33. Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, and Gamblers Anonymous are examples of __________.
a. hypnotic therapy
b. support group therapy
c. behavior modification
d. psychoanalysis
Answer: b
Topic: Methods of Treatment
Learning Objective 3.4: Compare treatment options for mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
34. Minh is leading a support group for compulsive shoplifters. How does a support group differ from a therapy group, or does it?
a. A support group is the same thing as a therapy group.
b. Support groups are voluntary; a therapy group is mandated by law enforcement.
c. Support groups contain just the person with the mental illness; a therapy group contains family members.
d. Support groups are composed of people who have experienced the same problems as the other participants; a therapy group is led by a professional.
Answer: d
Topic: Methods of Treatment
Learning Objective 3.4: Compare treatment options for mental illness.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
35. Research has found that exercise can help fight mental illness for many reasons. Which is NOT one of these reasons?
a. Exercise can increase negative body image.
b. Exercise can change serotonin and endorphin levels.
c. Exercise can increase feelings of mastery and social reinforcement.
d. Exercise can distract a person from his or her problems.
Answer: a
Topic: Methods of Treatment
Learning Objective 3.4: Compare treatment options for mental illness.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
36. The mental hospital became the common and preferred place of treatment for mental illness during the __________.
a. late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
b. late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
c. late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
d. late twentieth century
Answer: c
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care
Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
37. The purpose of mental hospitals in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was focused on __________.
a. integrate the patient with the community
b. converting the patient to a particular religious ideology
c. using the labor of the patient in factory work during the industrial revolution
d. providing treatment for the patient, and safety for both the patient and society
Answer: d
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care
Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
38. According to your text, mental hospitals __________.
a. always place treatment before custody and security
b. are total institutions
c. usually upgrade a patient’s sense of self-esteem and commonly do more good than harm
d. that are run by the state as public institutions are more heavily funded and expertly operated than private mental hospitals
Answer: b
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care
Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
39. In the Rosenhan investigation of “pseudopatients” admitted to mental hospitals, the pseudo-patients, observing interaction between staff and patients, felt that the atmosphere in the hospital produced a sense of __________.
a. powerlessness and depersonalization
b. politeness and cordiality
c. brutality and degradation
d. coldness and efficiency
Answer: a
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care
Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
40. __________ refers to the movement toward treatment of mental patients outside of hospitals in facilities near where they live.
a. Residential treatment
b. Community psychology
c. Locality treatment
d. Residential area psychotherapy
Answer: b
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
41. The key to locality-based, out-patient treatment of mental patients is a small residential community in which the patient resides when in transition from hospital treatment to complete release. This community is termed a __________.
a. work-release house
b. hospital-home transition house
c. halfway house
d. pre-release house
Answer: c
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
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Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
42. During the first half of the twentieth century, the number of people treated in mental hospitals increased by a large amount. Today, this trend has been reversed by a countertrend toward __________.
a. decriminalization
b. deinstitutionalization
c. detoxification
d. decarceration
Answer: b
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care
Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
43. The trend toward deinstitutionalization is generally related to __________.
a. cuts in funding and a belief that quality of life would be higher in the patient’s community
b. increased labeling of odd behaviors as “mental illness”
c. urban psychology and its desire to reduce homelessness
d. belief that those with mental illness would “lift” to higher social classes if they were out of the institutions
Answer: a
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care
Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
44. What was the primary goal of the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act?
a. to create new institutions to house homeless people, regardless of mental health status
b. to create new institutions to house homeless people who suffered from mental illness
c. to eliminate the halfway house as a type of treatment for those who suffer from mental illness
d. to develop a support system to aid patients released from mental hospitals
Answer: d
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care
Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate
45. Your friend Dana is writing a paper on homelessness. Help her out. Which of the following statements about homelessness is TRUE?
a. About 125,000 people are homeless on any given night.
b. Deinstitutionalization was proposed as a remedy to help mentally ill persons who were homeless.
c. Most homeless people suffer from mental illness.
d. Homeless women are more likely to suffer from mental illness than are homeless men.
Answer: d
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care
Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Difficulty Level: Moderate
46. The political battles surrounding mental-health care in the United States focus largely on __________.
a. defining the problem
b. the issue of parity in insurance coverage
c. laying blame
d. agency reorganization
Answer: b
Topic: Social Policy
Learning Objective 3.6: Analyze the policy implications of the Affordable Care Act for mental illness.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate
47. What did health insurance experts fear might be an unintended consequence of mental and physical parity legislation?
a. Experts feared that insurance companies would drop mental health coverage altogether.
b. Experts feared that insurance coverage for physical illness would be reduced.
c. Experts feared that insurance companies would go out of business because of the cost.
d. Experts feared that fewer minorities would have physical and mental health insurance coverage.
Answer: a
Topic: Social Policy
Learning Objective 3.6: Analyze the policy implications of the Affordable Care Act for mental illness.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate
48. What is the contribution of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) with respect to mental illness?
a. The ACA eliminated the parity in insurance coverage between physical and mental illness.
b. The ACA built 13 new mental hospitals between 2010 and 2015, with 9 more planned by 2020.
c. The ACA disallowed insurance companies from denying coverage for family members with prior illnesses, physical or mental.
d. The ACA mandated that halfway houses be built in every city with more than 200,000 people.
Answer: c Topic: Social Policy
Learning Objective 3.6: Analyze the policy implications of the Affordable Care Act for mental illness.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
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49. The Affordable Care Act is moving toward the use of electronic records for medical care. How will this change help those who are mentally ill?
a. Electronic records can be used by the police department to help keep mentally ill persons safe.
b. Electronic records can help remind patients daily to take their medications.
c. Electronic records will not identify who has a mental illness, thereby decreasing the bias that many providers have toward those who are mentally ill.
d. Electronic records could help coordinate the care the mentally ill receive.
Answer: d
Topic: Social Policy
Learning Objective 3.6: Analyze the policy implications of the Affordable Care Act for mental illness.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
50. The U.S. economy loses an estimated ________ through untreated and mistreated mental illness.
a. $450 billion
b. $220 billion
c. $105 billion
d. $65 billion
Answer: c
Topic: Social Policy
Learning Objective 3.6: Analyze the policy implications of the Affordable Care Act for mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate ESSAY
51. Compare and contrast the three basic sociological perspectives on mental illness.
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate
52. Based on the text’s discussion, discuss the relationship between suicide and mental illness.
Topic: Mental Illness As a Social Problem
Learning Objective 3.1: Identify the ways that mental illness is a social problem.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
53. Describe how mental illness is explained according to the medical model. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the medical model?
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
54. Compare and contrast the three explanations of mental illness: medical model, deviance, and problems in living. Which of the basic explanations of mental illness seems most accurate to you, and why?
Topic: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.2: Discuss the social construction of mental illness.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate
55. Describe the drift hypothesis. What does the research evidence suggest?
Topic: Inequality, Conflict, and Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.3: Assess inequality and differences in mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
56. Describe sex differences in mental illness. Elaborate on the factors that may explain this difference.
Topic: Inequality, Conflict, and Mental Illness
Learning Objective 3.3: Assess inequality and differences in mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
57. Compare and contrast the medical and nonmedical methods of treating mental illness today.
Topic: Methods of Treatment
Learning Objective 3.4: Compare treatment options for mental illness.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
58. Describe the history of mental hospitals and institutionalization. Be sure and discuss the contributions of Goffman and Rosenhan.
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care
Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
59. The deinstitutionalization of mental patients has been an important late-twentieth-century trend. Why did deinstitutionalization come about and what have been its major consequences?
Topic: Institutional Problems of Providing Treatment and Care
Learning Objective 3.5: Explain the institutional problems of providing treatment and care.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate
60. Discuss the issue of parity and mental illness. What political and legislative actions, if any, have dealt with this issue? Have these actions been successful? Be sure to include in your discussion the Affordable Care Act.
Topic: Social Policy
Learning Objective 3.6: Analyze the policy implications of the Affordable Care Act for mental illness.
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Moderate