What are the reasons that adults born before 1945 might be reluctant to engage in mental health services?
What will be an ideal response?
People born before 1945 are part of a cohort that lived when mental health services were limited to those who were severely disordered. They may believe that depression or anxiety result from flaws in character. The attitudes of health care providers may also communicate a feeling that therapeutic interventions are ineffective for older adults. This supports a stereotype that older adults can’t learn new skills and can’t change.
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Sue Anne Brinkley is an eighteen-year old college freshman enrolled at Camyron State
University. She presents herself at the campus counseling center following the unexpected death of her best friend. She exhibits the following symptoms --- disturbance in her thought process (tangential thinking) as well as delusions of grandeur (she believes herself to be Joan of Arc) and bizarre behaviors (repeatedly cleaning her sorority house stove with a toothbrush). According to her roommate, Alison, these symptoms started about eight or nine days ago (approximately 36 hours after hearing the news of her best friend's death). Sue Anne has no prior history of mental illness and her level of premorbid functioning was noted as "excellent." Based on this information, what do you believe is Sue Anne's most likely diagnosis?
a) Hypomania, with psychotic features b) Schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type c) Brief psychotic disorder, with marked stressors d) Schizophrenia, first episode currently in acute episode
When constructing a community development project, you should
a. typically get into housing, because it has an assured return. b. not allow yourself to be distracted by other CDC’s successful projects. c. choose a project with an assured return. d. expect your CDC to begin showing results very early.
Which of the following statements is true about the range?
a. It is unaffected by outliers. b. It can be misleading if it is inflated by one or more aberrant outliers. c. It provides more information than other measures of dispersion about the amount of variability in a distribution. d. It refers to the middle 75% of the values in a distribution.
T, age 15, has been held back in school and is currently in the 8th grade. T wants to
finish school so she can get a job that pays better than what her mom is making, but 4 more years seems like a long time. T has recently started hanging out with M, age 17, who works at a pizza place. T likes the money M has to spend on them. T doesn't know if she is going to enroll in high school next year. What is T motivated for? a. Completing school to qualify for jobs that pay a decent wage b. Having a boyfriend to be more financially secure than her mother c. Finding the fastest path to earning a lot of money d. Finding a way to be more financially secure than her mother