The goal of cognitive therapy is to help individuals:
a) Gain insight into why automatic thoughts occur
b) Find a way into their past and uncover how it impacts their present
c) Change inaccurate cognitions to more adaptive ones
d) Develop solutions to interpersonal problems
From a postmodern perspective, diagnosis is problematic because
a) diagnosis is outdated
b) it tends to essentialize clients
c) it ignores the social context
d) it uses binary terms
Seligman's idea of learned helplessness offers one explanation for:
a) Allowing oneself be taken care of by another when one is sick
b) Belief in a higher power
c) The behavior of abused spouses who are paralyzed in their situations
d) A child who does not clean his room
Olmstead v. L.C. expanded the legal basis for:
a) More restrictive settings
b) Involuntary civil commitment
c) Less restrictive settings
d) Involuntary outpatient commitment
Day treatment hospitals are partial programs that:
a) Provide diagnostic and intervention services for persons with acute symptoms
b) Focus on the maintenance or rehabilitation of psychiatric clients
c) Provide time-limited, goal-directed programs for clients whose acute symptoms are remitting
d) Focus on the maintenance and psychogeriatric clients
You are working with the family of a client with serious mental illness. Based on previous
conceptualizations of mental illness, the family may worry that:
a) you will focus primarily on the client's taking medication as prescribed
b) you will blame the client for his/her disability
c) you will blame the family for the client's illness
d) all of the above
Preventive commitment is a type of:
a) Involuntary outpatient commitment
b) Involuntary civil commitment
c) Voluntary civil commitment
d) Least restrictive alternative
The theorist credited with formulating the basis for attachment theory is:
a) Beck
b) Bowlby
c) Winnicott
d) Benjamin
Involuntary civil commitment refers to:
a) Legal commitment to a community treatment center
b) Legal confinement to an inpatient psychiatric facility or conditionl outpatient treatment
c) Commitment to an inpatient psychiatric facility that does not require legal authority
d) Referral to an outpatient facility
Which of the following is not generally supported by managed care organizations?
a) short-term therapy
b) long-term therapy
c) crisis intervention
d) reduction in sympatomatology
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