You work in a hospital with a chemical dependency unit. A new patient
in the emergency room shows signs of paranoid schizophrenia, but a
toxicology screen indicates he took cocaine.
He is sent to your unit,
and one week later, he still seems to show signs of paranoid
schizophrenia (but you are not a doctor). What do you do?
A. Schedule the patient for an assessment with you and an
evaluation by a mental health professional to determine if a cooccurrence exists.
B. Recognize that the patient has a co-occurrence of mental illness
and cocaine abuse, and assess for the best treatment approach.
C. Send the patient to the psychiatric ward for evaluation.
D. Ask the patient how often he uses cocaine.
A
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Once a case manager has made a referral, delivering the needed services becomes the responsibility of:
A. the resource. B. the client. C. the case manager. D. the family.
Which is not a concept of von Bertalanffy's general systems theory?
a. "black box" metaphor b. a system is more than the sum of its parts c. equifinality d. homeostatic reactivity
The rates of poverty are highest among older people who are:
A) single women. B) single men. C) married men. D) married women.
To be systemically consistent, therapists should do which of the following?
a. Utilize cookbook cures b. Be guided by a theoretical model c. Individualize interventions/perturbations d. Be guided by what has worked in the past