According to psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, mental disorders ________.
a. result from biochemical imbalances and genetic traits
b. reflect a person's efforts to conform to social expectations rather than the inner workings of a twisted psyche
c. express the fact that human life is a continual struggle to decide how to live and relate to others
d. reflect the inner workings of a twisted psyche
A diagnostic process is said to be reliable if ________.
a. it involves the use of low cost, high quality services
b. the same diagnosis is made of the same patient by different professionals
c. it uses all three perspectives on illnesses to derive results from a patient's analysis
d. a doctor is able to singly identify the cause for a patient's mental illness
The violation of social norms in which the violator is not caught or is excused rather than labeled as a deviant is known as ________.
a. secondary deviance
b. primary deviance
c. causality
d. scapegoating
Which of the following views is expressed by people who consider mental illness as a form of deviance?
a. Mental disorders should not be viewed as illnesses at all but rather as problems of living.
b. People who are labeled as mentally ill are bound to be rebellious.
c. The twisted behavior of the mentally ill results from their efforts to conform to social expectations.
d. People who are mentally ill are most likely to try and hide their behavioral deviations from others.
The medical model views mental illness as ________.
a. a result of a person's efforts to conform to societal expectations of mentally-ill people
b. a problem associated with being alive
c. a problem having the same basic nature as physical illness
d. an incurable illness that can have severe consequences
The difference between poor women and affluent women is that poor women are ________.
a. more likely receive preventive services and adequate care for chronic diseases
b. more likely to receive higher quality of health care through Medicare and Medicaid programs
c. less likely to be treated in outpatient clinics than emergency rooms
d. less likely to have prenatal checkups that result in infants with low birth weights
________ is the treatment of people's illnesses after they become ill.
a. Preventive medicine
b. Epidemiology
c. Curative medicine
d. Dystrophy
Which of the following is a limitation of the medical model on mental illness?
a. It does not consider the possibility that mental disorders can result from biochemical imbalances or genetic traits.
b. It can lead to a disregard for the many factors in the social environment that contribute to mental problems themselves.
c. It considers the basic nature of mental disorders to be different from that of physical disorders.
d. It disregards the possibility of external factors or internal dysfunction causing mental illness and makes individuals more accountable for their choices.
Damien's family has a history of deaths due to heart diseases. In order to avoid heart problems, Damien adopts a healthy lifestyle by following a balanced diet and exercise regime. Therefore, Damien is using ________ to avoid heart problems.
a. preventive medicine
b. curative medicine
c. crisis medicine
d. palliative medicine
________ diseases progress over a long period of time and often exist long before they are detected.
a. Chronic
b. Acute
c. Epidemic
d. Endemic
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