Chapter 12: Psychiatric understandings of mental health

1. What is the best way of referring to Peter Sedgwick’s conceptualising of mental illness? 

  1. A psychological concept
  2. A medical concept
  3. A unitary concept
  4. A multi-factorial concept

Answer: C

2.  Which condition does have a pathological link between brain and disorder?

  1. Schizophrenia
  2. Depression  
  3. Obsessive Compulsion Disorder 
  4. Alzheimer’s Disease

Answer: D

3. Which is not a feature of patient centred psychiatric assessment?

  1. A focus on emotional needs
  2. A focus on patient’s concerns
  3. A focus on life issues
  4. A focus on brain abnormalities 

Answer: D

4. How has Diana Rose explained felt inadequacies in nursing communication? 

  1. Nurses are ‘too busy’ to be helpful 
  2. Nurses are terrible people
  3. Nurses are lazy
  4. Nurses are lacking in empathy

Answer: A

5. Which policy document led some psychiatrists to focus more narrowly on biological psychiatry at the exclusion of psychosocial approaches?

  1. The 5 Year Forward View
  2. No Health Without Mental Health
  3. The Griffiths Report
  4. New Ways of Working 

Answer: D

6. Mind–brain integration is best understood in terms of ___.

  1. Seeing the brain as the cause of mental illness
  2. Objectifying those identified as mentally ill by focusing on their brain abnormalities
  3. Seeing the brain as enabling the mind
  4. Reducing the mind to brain

Answer: C

7. According to Eleanor Longden, what is the most important question in psychiatry? 

  1. What happened to you?
  2. What symptoms do you have?
  3. What is wrong with you?
  4. What is the name of the Prime Minister?

Answer: A