Scott Simmie, along with Boyle and Vincent, wrote two series of newspaper articles in The Toronto Star that gave recommendations on:
a) How to improve home care in Canada.
b) Solutions to society's problems with people who have serious and chronic mental illness.
c) How people with serious and chronic mental illness are feeling less and less stigmatized by society.
d) Steps to take when dealing with a mentally disordered friend or family member.
Question 2Which of the following was not one of the recommendations made by Simmie (1998 ) and Boyle and Vincent (1998 ) in their Toronto Star series on mental illness?
a) Prevent mental illness by improving risk assessment measures in children.
b) Increase funding for community mental health services.
c) Increase the use of Community treatment orders.
d) Have the most effective medications available for first line treatment of schizophrenia.
Question 3How did the Globe and Mail journalist Andr Picard (2008 ) describe the Canadian health care system?
a) A patchwork that has left millions in the shadows
b) A comprehensive system that needs continuum or treatment
c) A system unevenly distributed across the country
d) An expansive and poorly managed system
Question 4Human subjects committees and institutional review boards:
a) Have been proposed by the American Psychological Association.
b) Have been outlawed since the Nuremburg war trials.
c) Are used to ensure subjects participate in scientifically significant research.
d) Are used to protect the safety and rights of research subjects.
Question 5Fifty plus years ago, medical research with human subjects:
a) Was generally more ethical than mental health research.
b) Was monitored by review boards in the institutions where the research was being conducted.
c) Was used as a way of punishing mentally ill prisoners.
d) Frequently led to serious harmful consequences to participants.
Question 6Melanie is learning about what she should and should not do in her role as a psychologist. She is learning:
a) Laws
b) Morals
c) Ethics
d) Principles
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