Chapter 9: Madness and the law

1. Which is not claimed as a justification for compulsory treatment? 

  1. People affected by mental illnesses may not know what is in their best interest
  2. Patients may decline treatments because they fail to understand their necessity
  3. Staff in mental health services prefer to have and use these powers
  4. When people are mentally ill, they may become a danger to themselves or others

Answer: C

2. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has referred to neuroleptic medication as ___.

  1. Efficacious
  2. Benign
  3. Legitimate 
  4. Torture

Answer: D

3. Why does Szmukler refer to mental health legislation as essentially discriminatory?

  1. Mental health law enables disproportionate detention of ethnic minorities
  2. Compulsory treatment is warranted for other health conditions, but only legally mandated for mentally ill people
  3. Mental health law enables disproportionate detention of men rather than women
  4. Only targets people experiencing mental distress which excludes the majority of dangerous people

Answer: D

4. Which section of the England and Wales Mental Health Act (1983, revised 2007) is forced treatment legally questionable following the recent European Court of Human Rights judgement (X v Finland 2012)? 

  1. Section 2
  2. Section 3
  3. Sections 37/41
  4. None of them

Answer: A

5.  What did the mental health alliance say about dangerousness?

  1. It is never associated with mental health
  2. It is unsurprisingly a political issue
  3. It is predictable
  4. It should not be made a health issue for political or professional gain

Answer: D

6. Which wasn’t drawn on to inform the Open Dialogue approach? 

  1. Systemic family therapy
  2. Social constructionism
  3. Positive psychology
  4. Dialogical theory 

Answer: C

7. According to Unsworth which of these is not a main function of mental health legislation?

  1. Deciding who is sane or insane
  2. The regulation of mental health practices
  3. Inhibiting and restricting the power of psychiatry
  4. The division of labour in the mental health system  

Answer: A