Mental Health Studies
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Course Introduction
Mental Health Studies explores the biological, psychological, and social factors that influence mental well-being across the lifespan. The course examines the causes, symptoms, and treatments of common mental health conditions, as well as the impact of stigma and cultural attitudes on mental health care. Students will engage with current research, case studies, and ethical issues to develop a holistic understanding of mental health, prevention strategies, and intervention approaches. The course also emphasizes the importance of mental health promotion and the role of professionals in supporting individuals, families, and communities.
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Abnormal Psychology Sixth Canadian Edition by Gordon L. Flett
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Definitional and Historical
Considerations, and Canadas Mental Health
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Q1) A commonly accepted cut-off point for a diagnosis of mental retardation is an intelligence quotient (IQ)that is below:
A)125
B)100
C)85
D)70
Answer: D
Q2) Modern psychogenic approaches have their origin in
A)drug therapy.
B)hypnosis as a treatment procedure.
C)methods that remove biochemical imbalances.
D)surgical procedures.
Answer: B
Q3) In Canada, according to Goering et al. (2000), the major proportion of mental health care is delivered by:
A)Psychologists
B)Psychiatrists
C)General Practitioners
D)Social Workers
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches
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Q1) What is the healthy immigrant effect?
A)Immigrants to Canada have a positive impact on society by adding to our nation's diversity
B)Immigrants to Canada tend to have higher rates of physical illness, but lower rates of mental illness
C)Immigrants to Canada tend to have lower rates of physical illness, but higher rates of mental illness
D)Immigrants to Canada tend to have lower rates of physical illness and lower rates of mental illness
Answer: D
Q2) Henry is a 12 year old boy from Calgary who is struggling in school. His teachers and his parents suspect that he has ADHD. What form of treatment is Henry most likely to receive?
A)Being moved to a special education classroom at school
B)Family therapy with his parents and sister
C)A prescription medication
D)A referral to a neurologist for additional testing
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Classification, and Diagnosis
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Q1) The projective hypothesis assumes that
A)responses to highly structured tasks reveal hidden attitudes and motivations.
B)preferences for unstructured stimuli reveal unconscious motives.
C)unstructured stimuli provoke anxiety.
D)responses to ambiguous stimuli are influenced by unconscious factors.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is a goal of neuropsychological testing?
A)To describe strengths and weaknesses
B)To provide treatment recommendations
C)To determine whether psychological deficits are present
D)To establish baseline measurements
Answer: B
Q3) The MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)test is superior to a CT scan (i.e., computerized axial tomography)because:
A)It is less expensive
B)Patients find it less anxiety-provoking
C)It does not rely on the use of radiation
D)All of the above
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Research Methods in the Study of Abnormal Behaviour
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Q1) Earls and Lalumière (2002)conducted an in-depth study of a 54-year-old white male who was serving a 5-year prison sentence for animal cruelty. The researchers used:
A)A case study design
B)A correlational design
C)An experimental design
D)A mixed design
Q2) A good theory is one that can be tested and is reliable.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Correlational data would allow one to make which of the following statements?
A)"Depression causes weight gain."
B)"Weight gain causes people to become depressed."
C)"Depression is associated with higher weight."
D)"Lack of social support is the root of both depression and weight gain."
Q4) Chris Sizemore, better known as Eve, claimed to have ________ personalities.
A)three
B)ten
C)fifteen
D)twenty-one
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Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorders
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Q1) Results from Mental Health Supplement of the Ontario Health Survey indicated that anxiety disorders were most common among:
A)Younger men
B)Younger women
C)Older men
D)Older women
Q2) Anxiety sensitivity:
A)Has no effect on the development of panic attacks
B)Decreases one's risk of developing panic attacks
C)Increases one's risk of developing panic attacks
D)Has a mild, but unremarkable, influence on the development of panic attacks
Q3) According to cognitive-behavioural theory for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), the condition arises due to
A)excessive stress.
B)perceptions of loss of control over the environment.
C)avoidance of social situations.
D)none of the above choices are correct.
Q4) Anxiety disorders are the most common psychological disorders.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Q1) Like people with OCD, people with BDD focus on A)unwanted thoughts.
B)unwanted actions.
C)inability to act.
D)All of the above.
Q2) Adding a cognitive component to ERP for OCD helps with A)preventing the onset of OCD.
B)the client-therapist relationship.
C)eliminating dysfunctional beliefs.
D)restructuring the meaning of the obsession.
Q3) Virtual reality exposure is the standard treatment for OCD.
A)True
B)False
Q4) People with hoarding disorder often have difficulty
A)stopping themselves from buying new things.
B)stopping themselves from accepting items from friends and family.
C)parting with possessions.
D)All of the above.
Q5) How would you treat a client with trichotillomania? Why would it work?
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Chapter 7: Somatic Symptom Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
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Q1) Dissociative experiences in daily life are:
A)Triggered by nightmares
B)Typically short-lived and not a sign of disorder
C)Can be triggered by exercise
D)A sign of serious pathology
Q2) How does dissociative fugue develop? How does this condition differ from dissociative amnesia?
Q3) Health anxiety has been linked with the personality trait of:
A)Conscientiousness
B)Psychoticism
C)Neuroticism
D)Dependency
Q4) Who typically seeks out treatment for dissociative identity disorder?
A)The primary alter
B)A secondary alter
C)Friends of someone with dissociative identity disorder
D)People with dissociative identity disorder don't typically seek treatment
Q5) What is the proposed etiology of conversion disorder? Compare the psychoanalytic and behavioural paradigms of the etiology.
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Chapter 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) "Flight of ideas" refers to
A)a schizophrenic's delusional thinking.
B)a depressed person's suicidal thinking.
C)the thinking of a person with dementia.
D)a manic person's rapid shifts of topic while speaking.
Q2) Which woman is most likely to experience post-partum depression?
A)Anne, who is happily married to a business executive
B)Belinda, who is a part-time university student living with her boyfriend and family
C)Carmen, who moved to Canada five years ago from Venezuela
D)Destiny, who works two part-time jobs and lives on her own (after kicking her fiancé out)
Q3) Melancholic depression is typical in people with bipolar disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Norepinephrine and serotonin are
A)the two parts of the autonomic nervous system.
B)antidepressant medications.
C)neurotransmitters.
D)structures in the limbic system.
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Chapter 9: Stress-Related Disorders and Health Psychology
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Q1) Which part of the nervous system is not involved in the autonomic nervous system?
A)The somatic nervous system
B)The parasympathetic nervous system
C)The sympathetic nervous system
D)The part that responds automatically
Q2) The estimated prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among rape victims is:
A)10%
B)20%
C)35%
D)50%
Q3) Pete has PTSD following being robbed. His therapist suggests that they work together on exposing Pete to the traumatic stimuli while also focusing on changing his thoughts about them and working on skills, such as breathing. His therapist is most likely advocating for:
A)Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
B)Crisis intervention
C)Exposure with response prevention
D)Prolonged exposure therapy
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Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
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Q1) Canadian researchers Pliner and Chaiken have coined the term "Scarlett O'Hara effect" which refers to:
A)Avoiding exercise to project an image of femininity
B)Eating lightly to project an image of femininity
C)Purging to maintain an image of femininity
D)Dieting to project an image of femininity
Q2) The way that some individuals (including those with eating disorders)try to minimize making mistakes in front of other people both in terms of their physical image and in general has been termed
A)concern over mistakes perfectionism.
B)perfectionistic self-presentation.
C)self-image perfectionism.
D)socially-prescribed perfectionism.
Q3) What medications are used to treat anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa? How are (or aren't)they helpful?
Q4) To be diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, a postmenarcheal female must experience amenorrhea.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Schizophrenia
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Q1) A study by Stip et al. (2001)on people's perceptions of schizophrenia in Quebec found that:
A)31% of people felt that an employee with schizophrenia should be fired.
B)75% of people felt that schizophrenics are dangerous and can be violent.
C)Only 25% agreed with rehabilitation in the community.
D)Older participants were more likely to agree with rehabilitation in the community than younger respondents.
Q2) A cross-al and longitudinal MRI comparison of participants with schizophrenia by Lui et al. (2009)revealed that:
A)Participants who developed a psychotic disorder had increased grey matter volume
B)Lower grey matter volume predates the onset of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia
C)Intellectual functioning was not predictive of the development of schizophrenia
D)Lower grey matter volume occurs as a result of the onset of psychosis
Q3) The most common positive symptom of schizophrenia is visual hallucination.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) A recent innovation that seems helpful in relapse prevention for smoking is:
A)Paying people to abstain from smoking
B)Increasing the cost of cigarettes
C)Sending text messages to former smokers to maintain motivation for quitting
D)Encouraging former smokers to join online support forums
Q2) The two categories (i.e., substance abuse and substance dependence)were collapsed into one (i.e., substance use disorder)in DSM-5 because:
A)There is a quantitative severity distinction rather than qualitative distinction between substance dependence and abuse, so they should be on a continuum.
B)They argue that the legal problems criterion is a poor discriminator of substance problem severity.
C)The substance use disorder symptoms are best representative of moderate pathology and does not help distinguish mild and severe pathology.
D)All of the above.
Q3) It is legal to possess small amounts of marijuana in Canada.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Contrast biological and psychological therapies for alcohol use.
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Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
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Q1) According to Alden and associates (2002), the one symptom that reliably differentiates avoidant personality disorder from dependent personality disorder is the avoidant person's:
A)Procrastination and dilatory behaviour
B)Greater difficulty initiating social relationships
C)Lack of self-reliance
D)Perfectionistic approach to life
Q2) Therapeutic nihilism has been used to describe the view that
A)borderline personality disorder is nearly impossible to treat.
B)obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is nearly impossible to treat.
C)antisocial personality disorder in nearly impossible to treat.
D)personality disorders are nearly impossible to treat.
Q3) Personality disorder not otherwise specified (PDNOS)is the most common personality disorder diagnosis.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The best way to diagnose personality disorders is to have people complete the NEO (Five-Factor Model).
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Sexual Disorders and Gender Dysphoria
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Q1) Research on teenagers who are child molesters indicates that they tend to
A)be less socially isolated.
B)have experienced abusive physical discipline and sexual abuse.
C)have developed social skills.
D)come from surprisingly stable families and conventional upbringings.
Q2) In 2004, Michael Briere was convicted and sentenced for the brutal murder of Holly Jones in Toronto. His fantasy of having sex with a young child was fuelled by:
A)The child abuse he experienced as a boy
B)Frequent access to children as part of his job
C)Ready access to child pornography on the internet
D)His tendency to experience bouts of psychotic depression
Q3) In sex-reassignment surgery:
A)Opposite-sex genitals are constructed and hormones are taken.
B)Genital transplants are inserted from donors.
C)Hormones are taken but genitals are left intact.
D)Secondary features (e.g., Adam's apple, chin, nose)are altered, but genitals are left intact.
Q4) Name and describe one sexual dysfunction from each stage of the human sexual response cycle.
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Chapter 15: Disorders of Childhood
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Q1) Typically, the outcome for stuttering is
A)Complete recovery, even without intervention.
B)Recovery to the point that the person only stutters when nervous.
C)Complete recovery is possible if speech therapy is initiated early.
D)Most people do not recover, even with speech therapy.
Q2) What are some reasons that autistic children score low on intelligence tests?
Q3) Most children can be mean at times and do mean things. What differentiates a 'normal' child who does these things from a child with conduct disorder?
Q4) Oppositional defiant disorder is comorbid with:
A)Learning disorders
B)ADHD
C)Communication disorders
D)All of the above
Q5) Disorders that affect children:
A)Often carry over into adulthood
B)Are typically short-lived
C)Do not have long-lasting consequences
D)Are the most devastating mental illnesses
Q6) Compare the etiology of intellectual disability with the etiology of autism.
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Chapter 16: Aging and Psychological Disorders
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Q1) One method used by older adults to obtain prescription medication for abuse is:
A)Purchasing the drug from members of their cohort
B)Buying it on the street like other illicit drugs
C)Visiting multiple medical doctors
D)None of these; prescription drugs are not typically abused in older adulthood
Q2) Delirium can be distinguished from dementia in that delirium is associated with:
A)Forgetfulness, memory loss
B)Poor social judgement
C)Slow insidious onset
D)Erratic, changing behaviour
Q3) Alzheimer's disease is evident in post-mortem brains by:
A)Smaller ventricles
B)Atrophy of the cerebral cortex by plaque deposits
C)Plaque deposits on the medulla oblongata
D)None of the above are correct.
Q4) The phenomenon of feeling younger than one actually is refers to:
A)Ageism
B)Aging
C)Subjective age bias
D)Objective age phenomenon
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Chapter 17: Outcomes and Issues in Psychological Intervention
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Q1) Frand and Frank (1985)argued that people seek psychotherapy not only because of their symptoms but also because these symptoms are accompanied by feelings of alienation, hopelessness, helplessness, loss of self-esteem and incompetence. They named this phenomenon:
A)Demoralization hypothesis
B)Individual-difference hypothesis
C)Mental-severity hypothesis
D)None of the above
Q2) The advent of managed care has changed what aspect of practice for psychologists?
A)Theoretical orientation
B)Focus upon underlying causes
C)Accountability
D)Efficacy
Q3) Stepped care models of treatment may be most appropriate to use when:
A)Resources are scarce
B)Resources are plentiful
C)Problems are intense
D)Problems are non-existent
Q4) What is emotion-focused therapy and how is it used with couples?
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Chapter 18: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) Neuroscience has been used to help reduce people's prison sentences, as:
A)Neurologists give good testimony about the way the brain does or does not control impulses
B)Providing jurors with visual evidence (i.e., brain scans)helps them understand that there is an underlying problem with the person's brain
C)Most jurors do not understand science, but due to social desirability agree with the evidence presented
D)Neuroscience does not help reduce people's sentences - it is inadmissible in court
Q2) The Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists emphasizes that when there is a conflict between the needs of the individual and the needs of society:
A)The need to protect and serve society should prevail.
B)The need to preserve the dignity of the individual should prevail.
C)The needs of the individual should be balanced as best as possible with the needs of society.
D)None of the above. The Canadian Code of Ethics does not delineate what should happen in this sort of situation-it is up to each individual psychologist.
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