Deck 13: Issues in Mental Health

Question 1

During the Victorian period; the treatment (punishment) of neurasthenia was to:

A) Assume that women are troubled by being strong and competent
B) Assume that women become mad due to lover's abandonment
C) Severely impose isolation
D) Push women to get pregnant

Answer 1

Severely impose isolation

Question 2

The association between femininity and insanity:

A) Is a recent construction that was developed post WWII
B) Is no longer made today
C) Has no influence on the definition and treatment of mental health today
D) Continues to influence the definition and treatment of mental health today

Answer 2

Continues to influence the definition and treatment of mental health today

Question 3

Gender bias in diagnosis may lead to:

A) Treatments based on social rather than individual basis
B) Oppressing those who do not "fit in."
C) Misusing social systems
D) A lack of conformity to the social order

Answer 3

Oppressing those who do not "fit in."

Question 4

Which is not a sign of depression?

A) Increased libido
B) Sleep and appetite disturbances
C) Self blame and reproach
D) Hopelessness and helplessness

Question 5

According to the text, the two main components of depression are:

A) Social and cultural
B) Cognitive and mood
C) Mood and social
D) Cognitive and emotional

Question 6

Symptoms of depression differ in women and men in that:

A) Women tend to report feelings of worthlessness
B) Women tend to report sleep disorders
C) Women tend to lose sex drive
D) Women tend to report more physical symptoms

Question 7

The text implies that when it comes to understanding depression in women, a fair question would be:

A) Is it depression or is it oppression?
B) Why don't women do something about it?
C) Is there a man behind this depression?
D) What are the feminine qualities responsible for this behavior?

Question 8

More women than men are diagnosed with depression because:

A) Men do not seek help as often as women
B) Bias in diagnosis
C) Symptoms of depression differ in women and men
D) All of the above

Question 9

All of the following are criteria cited by the DSM-IV for anorexia nervosa, except:

A) A refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height
B) Binge eating
C) Intense fear of gaining weight
D) Amenorrhea

Question 10

All of the following are criteria cited by the DSM-IV for bulimia, except:

A) Recurrent episodes of binge eating with a sense of lack of control
B) Increased menstrual cycle frequency
C) Recurrent use of inappropriate compensatory behavior to avoid weight gain (self induced vomiting, laxative abuse, diuretic abuse).
D) Self evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight

Question 11

Sex differences in the incidence of depression:

A) Emerge in adolescence and continue through adulthood
B) Emerge in childhood and continue through adulthood
C) Emerge in childhood and continue through adolescence
D) Are only evident in adulthood

Question 12

__________________ describes the sense of powerlessness that individuals come to experience when they learn that there is nothing they can do to improve the situation

A) Rumination
B) Self handicapping
C) Learned helplessness
D) None of the above

Question 13

Agoraphobia is fear of:

A) High places
B) Closed places
C) Snakes
D) Common places

Question 14

Which is not a criterion for posttraumatic stress disorder?

A) Frequently remembering the traumatic event
B) Avoiding stimuli that trigger memories of the experience
C) Nightmares
D) Living in the past

Question 15

When it comes to suicide, we have evidence that:

A) Rates are similar between men and women
B) Women have a higher rate of suicide
C) Men have a higher rate of suicide
D) Data is too biased to make any determinations

Question 16

Parasuicidal behavior is often comorbid with

A) Dependent personality disorder
B) Borderline personality disorder
C) Histrionic personality disorder
D) Antisocial personality disorder

Question 17

_____________________is characterized by pervasive and excessive emotionality and attention seeking behavior

A) Histrionic personality disorder
B) Dependent personality disorder
C) Antisocial personality disorder
D) Narcissistic personality disorder

Question 18

Women are more often diagnosed with______________ than men, and men are more often diagnosed with_______________ than women.

A) Personality disorder/mood disorder
B) Mood disorder/anxiety disorder
C) Substance abuse/depression
D) Depression/substance abuse

Question 19

Which is not a predictor of substance abuse?

A) History of physical abuse
B) History of sexual abuse
C) Genetic factors
D) Traditions

Question 20

Feminist psychotherapy is:

A) Built on special techniques
B) Built on special theory
C) A philosophy of therapy
D) Can not be performed with any traditional theoretical orientation

Question 21

Why do more women than men report depression?

Question 22

Explain the double standards in diagnoses and treatment of mental disorders.

Question 23

Describe the philosophy of feminist therapy.