According to postmodern thinking, mental illness is a
a) discourse
b) binary category
c) deconstructed category
d) subjugated category
Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill stated that:
a) An action is considered good if the majority agree with it
b) Decisions must be made based on previous cases
c) Certain actions are inherently right or wrong
d) An action is considered good if it promotes maximum good
Consumers of mental health services have embraced the concept of recovery. This is because
recovery means that
a) they will be cured
b) they will work toward goals of their own choosing
c) they will be able to move out of the mental health system at some point
d) they will be able to live without medication
The theory that there are fixed moral rules is known as:
a) Teleological theory
b) Deontological theory
c) Casuistry
d) Communitarianism
After a young woman was found in a man's basement for years.where she was held prisoner for five
years, the man who imprisoned her claimed that he was insane. Psychiatric testing, however, found
that he did not have a mental disorder.
Most likely, his behavior would be considered.
a) Sadistic
b) Criminal
c) Abnormal
d) Subthreshold mental illness
Laws that impact clinical social work practice may or may not coincide with social work values and
ethics because:
a) Observance of laws is voluntary
b) There are differences between legal and ethical principles
c) Clinical social workers operate in environments where laws are influential, not values and ethics
d) They do not vary from state to state, but values and ethics do
All of these are core professional values stated in the NASW Code of Ethics EXCEPT:
a) Social justice
b) Dignity and worth of the person
c) Least restrictive treatment
d) Integrity
A worker was puzzled about how to clinically treat a client with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who had
a college degree, held a steady job in an office, and complained of intrusive voices.
To identify an
evidence-based practice, the worker would need to search the literature all of the following except:
a) treatment
b) schizophrenia
c) high functioning
d) voice control
A client was concerned that her psychiatric disorder could be passed onto her children. Which of the
following avenue of research and practice would provide the best answer?
a) epidemiological research
b) psychosocial research
c) evidence-based practice
d) biological research
Psychiatric epidemiology is concerned with all of the following except
a) person-environment relationship
b) the spread of disease
c) distribution of mental illness in a population
d) distribution of mental health in a population
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