Chapter 14: Critical psychological ideas and practices
1. Compared to psychiatric treatments, psychological interventions are ___.
- Always more benign?
- Never abusive
- Less physically invasive
- More effective
2. Which is not associated with a categorical approach to classification?
- Clear dividing lines between different disorders
- Clear demarcation between states of health and illness
- Stigma attached to specific disorders
- A logical link with internal dysfunction
3. Who was the first psychiatrist to refer to schizophrenia?
- Emile Kraepelin
- Eugene Bleuler
- Kurt Schneider
- Robert Spitzer
4. What two conditions need to be met for a diagnostic system to be scientifically and clinically valid?
- Reliability and utility
- Predictive power and explanatory power
- Simplicity and reliability
- Reliability and flexibility
5. The claims made for DSM reliability have been called ___.
- Exemplary medical science
- A complete nonsense
- A revolution in rhetoric and not reality
- Fake news
6. High estimates of the heritability of mental disorders ___.
- Can be safely assumed to be accurate
- Can mask major environmental influences
- Justify eugenic practices
- Are uncontroversial
7. Evidence for the impact of social factors in causing mental illness makes the case for which treatments?
- Medication
- ECT
- Counselling
- Trauma-focused psychological interventions