What treatment approach is most likely to be employed by an HMO to treat an anxiety disorder?
A) pharmacotherapy B) aversion therapy
C) systematic desensitization D) flooding
Question 2What impact have HMOs had on mental health care?
A) Mental health treatment is more readily available.
B) The cost of mental health services has risen.
C) Greater emphasis has been placed on finding treatment approaches that are time and cost efficient.
D) The reliance on medical therapies has decreased.
Question 3The history of abnormal psychology makes it clear that
A) international efforts in dealing with mental disorders are doomed to failure because there is no
agreement on the definition of disorder.
B) we are no further today in understanding mental disorders than we were in the time of Pinel, Dix,
and Beers.
C) the field can be profoundly changed and improved through individual effort.
D) more domestic and fewer international efforts are needed.
Question 4In understanding and treating mental disorders, the World Health Organization at the present time has
A) almost completely ignored the impact of physical disease on mental health.
B) focused exclusively on physical diseases, not on mental health.
C) been very much aware of the interrelationship between physical, psychosocial, and sociocultural
factors.
D) almost completely ignored ethnic and cultural differences.
Question 5Which of the following is TRUE regarding the use of mental health resources in private industry?
A) Many companies have recently begun providing psychological services through employee assistance
programs.
B) Psychological services are provided on an extremely limited basis, even at the most elite private
corporations.
C) Primary prevention programs have been routinely used in private industry for many decades.
D) Private industry typically does not acknowledge the importance of mental health-promoting factors
in the work place and therefore dramatically underutilizes mental health resources.
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