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?

  1. What is wrong with you?
  2. What medication have you been prescribed?
  3. What has happened to you?
  4. What is your job?

Answer: C

2. What do the chapter authors favour for how to think better about changing services?

  1. Campaigns to persuade government of the need to change
  2. Lobbying of psychiatrists because they have most power in the team
  3. Revolutionary action
  4. 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?

  1. They are designed to inflict trauma
  2. Too many staff are abusive of patients and colleagues
  3. Staff suffer high rates of sickness/absence
  4. Routine practices actually operate to re-traumatise individuals

Answer: D

4. What is a key characteristic of the psy-complex?

  1. Governance and social control function*
  2. A preponderance of psychological therapies
  3. Over-use of psychotropic medication
  4. A fictional representation of services

Answer: A

5. Since 2010 levels of compulsion under the Mental Health Act have _____?

  1. Stayed constant
  2. Fallen
  3. Increased by around 5% per year
  4. Increased by around 10% per year

Answer: D

6. Neoliberalism is best described as ___?

  1.  A political philosophy
  2. An economic system
  3. An economic philosophy favouring free-markets
  4. An economic philosophy promoting freedom and equality

Answer: C

7. What has been the most important cause of a nursing legitimacy crisis?

  1. A number of significant service failings and scandals of abuse and neglect
  2. Nurses are essentially lacking in compassion
  3. Cuts in resources
  4. Dishonest media reporting

Answer: A