What was moral management? What caused its near abandonment in the second part of the nineteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Moral management was a broad treatment that included a patient's social, individual and occupational needs. The
moral and spiritual development of patients was a focus. More emphasis was placed on a patient's character than
on their disorder. Typical treatments were spiritual discussion and manual labor. It was surprisingly effective. It
was abandoned because of changing attitudes toward the mentally ill and the increasing size of hospitals. The
mental hygiene movement and advances in biomedical science also contributed to its decrease in popularity. The
focus on physical and biological explanations and care meant that other factors in a patient's life were considered
irrelevant.
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One concept that is central to the theories of Rogers, Maslow, White, DeCharms, Bandura, and Deci and Ryan, is the focus on:
a. happiness b. social learning c. human growth d. heredity
Resting potential is the electrical charge across a neural membrane when ______ ions concentrate on the outside and ______ concentrate on the inside
a. not enough negative; excess positive b. not enough positive; excess negative c. excess negative; excess positive d. excess positive; excess negative
During the first two years of life, the number of interconnections between neurons ______
a. decreases dramatically c. increases slightly b. decreases slightly d. increases dramatically
The typical response to the loss of a loved one is __________
A) resilience
B) prolonged distress
C) permanently impaired mental health
D) permanently impaired physical health