Chapter 24: Mental health care coordination
1. Care co-ordination has been defined as ___. (Select all the correct answers)
- Getting a person clinically appropriate care in a timely manner without wasting resources
- A way of tailoring help to meet individual need through placing the responsibility for assessment and service coordination with one individual worker or team
- The integration of organisational structures
- An activity that is fundamentally about connections among interdependent actors
2. A care co-ordinator is ___.
- A mental health nurse only
- Any suitably qualified person in England and Wales
- Any mental health worker in England but only specified professionals in Wales
- None of the above
3. The need for care co-ordination resulted from ___.
- Large numbers of people wanting community care
- The introduction of new medications
- The deinstitutionalisation programme
- A desire to control the work of community mental health nurses
4. A psychosocial assessment is primarily focused on ___.
- Checking what medication works for the person
- Ensuring the person has something to do during the day
- Examining the mental state of the person
- An evaluation of the person’s mental, physical, emotional and social circumstances
5. A strengths focus helps with ___.
- Building muscle strength and fitness
- Focusing on the resources and relationships people have available to them
- Showing how good services are at helping with problems
- Building psychological resilience
6. Care co-ordination can help people with recovery by ___.
- Facilitating control over aspects of one’s life and building social connectedness
- Doing everything possible for the person
- Ensuring people take their medication
- Helping people comply with their care plan
7. A wicked problem is ___.
- One which is nasty and malignant
- A problem that defies definition
- Defined in relation to a possible solution and for which there is contested and often contrary evidence
- Something to do with witches