Chapter 12: Psychiatric understandings of mental health
1. What is the best way of referring to Peter Sedgwick’s conceptualising of mental illness?
- A psychological concept
- A medical concept
- A unitary concept
- A multi-factorial concept
2. Which condition does have a pathological link between brain and disorder?
- Schizophrenia
- Depression
- Obsessive Compulsion Disorder
- Alzheimer’s Disease
3. Which is not a feature of patient centred psychiatric assessment?
- A focus on emotional needs
- A focus on patient’s concerns
- A focus on life issues
- A focus on brain abnormalities
4. How has Diana Rose explained felt inadequacies in nursing communication?
- Nurses are ‘too busy’ to be helpful
- Nurses are terrible people
- Nurses are lazy
- Nurses are lacking in empathy
5. Which policy document led some psychiatrists to focus more narrowly on biological psychiatry at the exclusion of psychosocial approaches?
- The 5 Year Forward View
- No Health Without Mental Health
- The Griffiths Report
- New Ways of Working
6. Mind–brain integration is best understood in terms of ___.
- Seeing the brain as the cause of mental illness
- Objectifying those identified as mentally ill by focusing on their brain abnormalities
- Seeing the brain as enabling the mind
- Reducing the mind to brain
7. According to Eleanor Longden, what is the most important question in psychiatry?
- What happened to you?
- What symptoms do you have?
- What is wrong with you?
- What is the name of the Prime Minister?