Deck 35: Mental Health Disorders

Question 1

A person's ability to cope with and adjust to stress is disturbed, and the person's thinking, mood, behaviour, and function are impaired.Which of the following statements about this person is correct?

A)The person has a mental health disorder.
B)The person has extreme suspicion about a person or situation.
C)The person has mood swings.
D)The person has paranoia.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

In which of the following conditions may psychotic episodes occur?

A)Obsessive-compulsive disorders
B)Bipolar disorder
C)Schizophrenia
D)Antisocial personality disorder

Answer 2

C

Question 3

How can the term obsession be defined?

A)The uncontrollable urge to perform an act
B)A false belief
C)A mental health disorder
D)A persistent thought or desire

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Repeating an act over and over again is called which of the following?

A)An obsession
B)Paranoia
C)A phobia
D)A compulsion

Question 5

Affect relates to which of the following?

A)A group of mental health disorders in which anxiety is the main symptom
B)A false belief
C)Feelings and emotions
D)Extreme suspicion about a person or a situation

Question 6

What is happening when a client has psychosis?

A)The client has extreme suspicion about a person or situation.
B)The client sees, hears, tastes, smells, or feels things that are not real.
C)The client's perception of reality is impaired.
D)The client has fear, panic, or dread.

Question 7

What is a phobic disorder?

A)Extreme suspicion about a person or situation
B)An intense fear of a particular thing or situation
C)A persistent thought or desire
D)Fear, panic, or dread

Question 8

What is a hallucination?

A)A false belief
B)A false and exaggerated belief
C)Seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or feeling something that is not real
D)A persistent thought or desire

Question 9

Which of the following statements about anxiety disorders is correct?

A)Mentally healthy people are free of anxiety.
B)Anxiety disorders are uncommon.
C)The person with anxiety disorders experiences fear and worries disproportionate to the situation.
D)Anxiety disorders affect more men than women.

Question 10

When does post-traumatic stress disorder occur?

A)After a terrifying ordeal
B)After taking illegal drugs
C)In persons newly diagnosed with mental health disorders
D)In persons with dementia

Question 11

A person who has agoraphobia has a fear of what?

A)Hurting someone
B)One's thoughts causing someone harm.
C)Being in an open, crowded, or public space
D)Being trapped in an enclosed or narrow space.

Question 12

A client washes her hands over and over many times during the day.This behaviour is due to which of the following conditions?

A)Hallucination
B)Repression
C)Phobia
D)Compulsion

Question 13

What does the term panic mean?

A)A persistent thought or desire
B)Extreme suspicion about a person or a situation
C)An intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, terror, or dread
D)Not being able to correctly view or interpret reality

Question 14

Which of the following is not a cause of mental health disorders?

A)Stressful life events
B)Chemical imbalances
C)Genetics
D)Schizophrenia and anxiety.

Question 15

What are anxiety disorders?

A)A group of mental health disorders in which anxiety is the main symptom
B)A false belief
C)Feelings and emotions
D)Extreme suspicion about a person or a situation

Question 16

A psychiatric disorder is the same as which of the following?

A)A mental health disorder
B)A group of disorders involving rigid and socially unacceptable behaviours
C)A mental state in which a client's perception of reality is impaired
D)A persistent thought or desire

Question 17

What is a delusion?

A)A false belief
B)Seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or feeling something that is not real
C)A persistent thought or idea
D)An intense and sudden feeling of fear, panic, or dread

Question 18

Which of the following describes a person who is able to cope with and adjust to everyday stresses?

A)Is mentally healthy
B)Has a mental health disorder
C)Has an emotional disorder
D)Has a psychiatric disorder

Question 19

Delusion of grandeur is which of the following?

A)A false belief that one is being mistreated, abused, or harassed
B)An exaggerated belief about one's importance, wealth, power, or talents
C)An intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, terror, or dread
D)Seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or feeling something that is not real

Question 20

Paranoia refers to which of the following?

A)A persistent thought or desire
B)Extreme suspicion about a person or a situation
C)Fear, panic, or dread
D)A mental state in which a person's perception of reality is impaired

Question 21

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa occur mostly in which group?

A)Teenage boys
B)Adolescent girls and young women
C)Middle-aged men who are athletes
D)Middle-aged women after menopause

Question 22

Eating substances without nutritional value for a period of at least a month is known as which of the following disorders?

A)Anorexia nervosa
B)Bulimia nervosa
C)Binge eating
D)Pica

Question 23

Which is correct about a person with bipolar and related disorders?

A)Has unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function
B)Abuses others
C)Is hostile
D)Cannot interpret reality correctly

Question 24

Which of the following is not a sign or symptom of bulimia nervosa?

A)Starvation
B)Purging
C)Vomiting blood
D)Constipation

Question 25

When supporting clients with substance-dependence disorders, Fred, a support worker, should do which of the following?

A)Talk to the client if he smells alcohol on the client's breath or if he observes suspicious behaviour.
B)Avoid confrontation.
C)Buy alcohol, drugs, or other substances for clients if instructed to do so by the supervisor.
D)Turn to his family for advice, as he thinks the client is abusing alcohol.