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Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
An obvious way of highlighting someone's gender is
A) Repulsiveness
- B) Attractiveness C) Pizzazz D) loveliness E) None of the above authora- 001
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Anonymous Author
It should be a professional advantage for a male to be considered attractive since we associate masculinity with professional competence alphonses- 003
Multiple Choice
Mar 1, 2016
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Soraya Alphonse
What are the drugs use to treat people with mental illness?
A) Mood stabilizers B) Antipsychotics C) Antidepressants
- D) All of the above E) none of the above alphonses- 004
Fact Mar 2, 2016
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Soraya Alphonse
31% of working-age adults experience a diagnosable mental illness. alphonses- 005
Multiple Choice
Mar 2, 2016
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A) True
- B) False amayag- Multiple Mar 3, 2016 Giselle 002 Choice 10:59:54 PM Amaya
Soraya Alphonse
Which is not considered a diagnose contested illness?
A) irritable bowel syndrome B) fibromyalgia C) chronic fatigue syndrome
- D) All of the above E) none of the above amayag- 001
Multiple Choice
Mar 3, 2016
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Giselle Amaya
Obtaining appropriate treatment is especially difficult for minorities only.
According to data collected by federal researchers through a national, random survey, almost of U.S residents use some form of alternative therapy.
A) 20%
B) reduce prejudice against disabled persons.
- C) equate physical deformity with moral deformity. D) reflect a medical model of disability. E) reflect a social model of disability.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Someone who wins wheelchair marathons to prove he is no different from others despite his disability is engaging in
A) passing. B) deviance disavowal.
- C) stigma challenging. D) illness behavior. E) sick role behavior.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Chronic pain is more common among which of the following?
A) men
- B) women C) middle-class persons D) suburbanites E) white Americans
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Someone who points out that persons with polio would be far less disabled if sidewalks were constructed with wheelchair users in mind is
A) using a medical model of disability.
- B) using a sociological model of disability. C) blaming the victim. D) practicing institutional isomorphism. E) individualizing disability.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
The idea that disabled persons would experience fewer problems if they had better attitudes is an example of
A) restricting impairments. B) the sociological model of disability.
- C) blaming the victim. D) institutional isomorphism. E) functionalism.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Which of the following statements suggests that disabled persons form a minority group?
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
The Americans with Disabilities Act
A) applies only to civil service employment. B) required cities to establish special schools for handicapped children. C) uses a very broad definition of who has a disability.
- D) outlaws discrimination in employment, public services, and public accommodations. E) has made it easy for individuals who believe they have experienced discrimination to win law suits.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
About what percentage of Americans has a disability?
A) 1 percent
- B) 12 percent C) 25 percent D) 40 percent E) 65 percent
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Over the last few decades, the prevalence of disabilities has
- A) increased. B) decreased. C) stayed about the same.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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mous Author Disability is more common among
- A) lower income than upper income persons. B) younger than older persons. C) whites than African Americans. D) men than women. E) lesbians than heterosexual women. authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
U.S. physicians:
A) are well-trained in pain management.
- B) are especially likely to undertreat chronic pain among minorities. C) are especially likely to prescribe pain medication to women. D) do not allow drug trafficking laws to influence how they treat chronic pain. E) are typically unconcerned about the risk of addiction when treating chronic pain.
E) the health belief model.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
The most common underlying reason for disability among adults between the ages of 18 and 65 is
A) fibromyalgia. B) contested illnesses.
- C) chronic pain. D) mental illness. E) AIDS/HIV.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
A woman who uses a wheelchair and wears a "Crip Pride" button is engaging in
A) passing. B) avoiding stigma.
C) disclosing stigma.
E) stigmatizing.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Disabled persons who join the Disability Rights movement are engaging in
A) passing. B) covering. C) disclosing their stigma.
- D) challenging their stigma.
E) stigmatizing.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Which of the following statements is true?
A) Chronic pain is an illness in its own right, not just a symptom.
- B) Chronically ill persons sometimes attempt in their minds to separate their selves from their bodies. C) Chronic illness always leads to decreased self-esteem. D) Prejudice against disabled persons has largely disappeared. E) Discrimination against disabled persons has largely disappeared.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Whether an individual will seek diagnosis once symptoms appear depends on
A) the presence of alternative explanations for the symptoms.
A) using a medical model of disability
- B) using a sociological model of disability C) blaming the victim D) practicing institutional isomorphism E) individualizing disability authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Over the last few decades, the prevalence of disabilities has increased.
- A) True B) False authora- 001 Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Fife and Wright's (2000) research indicates that cancer and HIV/AIDS patients perceive at least three dimensions of stigma resulting from their illness.
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Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
The medical model of mental illness assumes that
A) objectively measurable conditions define mental illness. B) mental illness stems largely or solely from something within individual psychology or biology. C) treatment sometimes can pose serious risks. D) all of the above
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
The sociological model of mental illness assumes that
A) psychiatrists label any behavior that breaks social norms as mental illness. B) anyone who breaks social norms is equally likely to be labeled mentally ill.
- C) behavior becomes labeled as mental illness when powerful persons consider it both unacceptable and incomprehensible. D) treatment for mental illness may not help, but it cannot hurt. E) sociologists can treat mental illness better than psychologists can.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
A person who thinks he is Napoleon
- A) breaks cognitive norms. B) has an organic illness. C) breaks feeling norms.
- B) our system of psychiatric diagnoses has resulted in part from a series of political fights. C) those working in the mental health field generally agree on how to treat the different mental illnesses. D) psychiatrists generally agree on how to treat homosexuality. E) the Manual is now highly valid.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Research using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual suggests that
A) the DSM has a high degree of reliability. B) clinicians are able to arrive at consistent diagnoses.
- C) different clinicians may diagnose the same patient differently. D) politics are not involved in the construction of diagnostic categories. E) diagnostic categories are stable over time.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Pre-modern societies were better able than modern societies to cope informally with
individuals who acted in unacceptable and incomprehensible ways because pre- modern societies
- A) could offer those individuals acceptable, low-level roles. B) could often cure illness through prayer. C) generated little stress. D) killed such individuals before puberty. E) developed religious institutions to control such individuals.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Moral treatment referred to
A) giving moral instruction to mentally ill persons. B) teaching the Bible to mentally ill persons. C) the treatment of mentally ill persons by ministers.
- D) treating mentally ill persons through kindness and through giving them opportunities for both work and play. E) the treatment of mentally ill persons by moralists and philosophers.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
By the end of the nineteenth century,
- A) custodial care had largely replaced moral treatment. B) psychoanalysis had largely replaced moral treatment. C) moral treatment had become the dominant form of therapy in mental hospitals. D) care of the mentally ill had shifted from large mental hospitals to small ones. E) almshouses had become the most common sites for care of the mentally ill.
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
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Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
According to Goffman, persons who are treated in large mental hospitals typically experience
A) cure. B) remission. C) recurrences of their illness.
- D) mortification. E) deinstitutionalization. authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Which of the following played a main role in deinstitutionalization?
A) the development of new psychoactive drugs for treating mental illness B) public horror at the maltreatment of mentally ill persons
- C) financial changes in insurance and in Social Security D) the overcrowding of state mental hospitals E) the feminization of aging authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Deinstitutionalization has not improved the lives of persons who are mentally ill because
A) the government committed few funds to developing a system for caring for them in the community. B) community mental health centers have focused on those with acute rather than chronic mental problems.
C) beginning in the 1980s, the federal government slashed funding for social services.
E) a and b only
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Most psychiatrists now primarily treat patients with
- A) drugs. B) psychotherapy. C) psychoanalysis. D) electroshock therapy. E) none of the above
authora- 001
Multiple Choice
Dec 29, 2015
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Anonymous Author
Once an individual seeks treatment for psychiatric problems, doctors typically
A) remedicalize the journals they use.
