Chapter 1: The context and nature of mental health care in the 21st century
1. What does Eleanor Longden think is the best question a mental health professional can ask of a service user?
- What is wrong with you?
- What medication have you been prescribed?
- What has happened to you?
- What is your job?
2. What do the chapter authors favour for how to think better about changing services?
- Campaigns to persuade government of the need to change
- Lobbying of psychiatrists because they have most power in the team
- Revolutionary action
- Build democratic dialogue between critical elements of the workforce and survivor groups
Answer: D
3. Why might mental health services be called trauma-organised systems?
- They are designed to inflict trauma
- Too many staff are abusive of patients and colleagues
- Staff suffer high rates of sickness/absence
- Routine practices actually operate to re-traumatise individuals
4. What is a key characteristic of the psy-complex?
- Governance and social control function*
- A preponderance of psychological therapies
- Over-use of psychotropic medication
- A fictional representation of services
5. Since 2010 levels of compulsion under the Mental Health Act have _____?
- Stayed constant
- Fallen
- Increased by around 5% per year
- Increased by around 10% per year
6. Neoliberalism is best described as ___?
- A political philosophy
- An economic system
- An economic philosophy favouring free-markets
- An economic philosophy promoting freedom and equality
7. What has been the most important cause of a nursing legitimacy crisis?
- A number of significant service failings and scandals of abuse and neglect
- Nurses are essentially lacking in compassion
- Cuts in resources
- Dishonest media reporting