Deck 7: Case Management Skills

Question 1

"…tension between person and environment that people perceive as taxing or exceeding their resources and endangering their wellbeing" is one definition of….

A) panic attack
B) mental illness
C) a hangover
D) stress

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Case management skills include which of the following….

A) networking
B) advocacy
C) enhancing social supports
D) all of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What estimate of the number of child abuse cases reported annually is most accurate?

A) 100,000
B) 1,000,000
C) 10,000,000
D) 250,000

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following is a known risk factor for child abuse?

A) parental psychopathology
B) environmental stressors
C) parental criminality
D) all of the above

Question 5

Overall, child welfare interventions have been shown to be very effective.

Question 6

Case management programs for people with major mental illnesses…..

A) were an out-growth of the deinstitutionalization movement
B) have been shown to be completely ineffective
C) help reduce hospitalization rates
D) a and c

Question 7

Although social supports provided to people with major mental illnesses by case managers sounds like a good idea, no studies to date have been conducted on this important subject.

Question 8

The research literature suggests that supported employment seems to be an effective approach for helping people with severe mental illnesses get jobs.

Question 9

The term "clinical case management" refers to……

A) the use of more advanced interventions such as behavioral family therapy
Within a case management framework
B) combining case management services and medication only
C) using "insight-oriented" therapies with people who have chronic mental
Illnesses
D) none of the above

Question 10

Factors associated with violence among some people with major mental illness include:

A) being male
B) abuse of substances
C) younger age
D) all of the above