Chapter 35: Non-medical alternatives for crisis care
1. Which is not necessarily a characteristic of most non-medical care alternatives?
- Attempts to understand the unintelligible
- An emphasis on relational care
- Prescribed medication
- Central role for dialogue
2. Which is a characteristic of non-medical alternatives for crisis care?
- Insistence on taking medication
- Compulsory admission
- High levels of physical security
- Working within the person’s own preferred framework of understanding
3. What is not a feature of a therapeutic community?
- Viewing all behaviour as meaningful
- Valuing positive relationships
- Clarity regarding decision making
- Requires a residential setting
4. Which town has attempted to develop a therapeutic community-inspired whole social system approach?
- Slough
- Hebden Bridge
- Canterbury
- Rochdale
5. Who developed the Soteria model?
- Ronnie Laing
- David Cooper
- Rex Haigh
- Loren Mosher
6. Which is not the site of an Open Dialogue initiative?
- North East London
- Western Lapland
- Liverpool
- New York
7. What is a feature of the Open Dialogue approach?
- Tolerance of uncertainty
- Exclusion of extended family members
- Prescribed medication
- Inpatient admisions