It is the role of the human services worker to support patients’ efforts to take charge of their lives and make decisions
This support can take the form of:
a. Giving honest criticism when the client makes a mistake
b. Assuming control of the client’s daily activities to ensure that goals are accomplished
c. Having realistic goals for the client and encouraging progress toward the goals
d. Insisting that the client take the necessary steps toward the goal when that person appears to be malingering
c
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According to Thomas Szasz, mental illness is:
a) is an illness or a disease b) based on brain structure c) caused by sexual drives d) a myth
Which of the following is a disadvantage of group experimental designs that single?system
designs may avoid?
a. The research design fails to capture the process by which change was induced. b. It is too time?consuming and costly to secure enough cases for treatment and control groups. c. Experiments using groups cannot control for threats to internal validity. d. The research design fails to capture the process by which change was induced, and it is too time?consuming and costly to secure enough cases for treatment and control groups
Assuming a position of superiority and quickly providing solutions for problems without encouraging clients to think through the possible courses of action:
A) ?fosters dependency and stifles creative thinking. B) ?encourages the clients to reveal their troubling feelings. C) ?serves to restore the comfort level of the clients. D) ?induces the clients to agree with a particular view.
Alberta Rynner, age seventeen, started dieting to lose weight because her boyfriend, Paul,
thought she was “too fat.” Her diet consisted of eating no more than a banana and drinking two cups of plain tea each day. At the beginning of her diet, she weighed 130 pounds. By the end of five months she lost thirty-five pounds and was exhibiting some medical complications that included cold intolerance, constipation, painful swelling of her fingers, knees, and elbows. Additionally, Alberta reports she has not had a normal menstrual cycle for the past three months. Her most likely diagnosis would be:
a) Anorexia nervosa, restricting type b) Pica c) Binge eating disorder (BED) d) Bulimia nervosa, partial remission