Deck 8: Prevention in Human Services

Question 1

The lack of knowledge about the causes of a specific illness was always an obstacle to preventing the illness.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

An excellent reason to emphasize primary prevention programs is that there are not enough human services personnel to treat or rehabilitate all that are in need.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The acknowledged inability of treatment and rehabilitation programs alone to stem the tide of people in need of human services makes increased primary prevention efforts almost mandatory.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Primary prevention is designed to keep a disorder, disability, or dysfunction from occurring in the first place.

Question 5

It was not until the 1960s that the federal government seriously considered efforts to prevent mental illness.

Question 6

In the field of medicine, major targets of prevention are:

A)illness.
B)premature births.
C)premature or unnecessary death.
D)injuries.
E)(a), (c), and (d) are correct.

Question 7

In preliterate societies, people tried to prevent hunger, illness, injury, and death by:

A)making plans.
B)living together.
C)prayer, ritual, and sacrifices.
D)working together.
E)all of the above

Question 8

If parents noticed that their teenage child was beginning to use alcohol and obtained help for their child, this would be an example of:

A)primary prevention.
B)secondary prevention.
C)tertiary prevention.
D)quadrary prevention.

Question 9

Most human services workers are given significant training in the prevention of mental and physical illness.

Question 10

There are three major categories of obstacles to the funding and development of primary prevention programs in the human services field.Which one of the following contains these three categories?

A)professional, political, economic
B)social, philosophical, psychological
C)theoretical, practical, psychoanalytical
D)educational, practical, medical

Question 11

Many diseases or disorders have been eliminated through treatment alone.

Question 12

Which is not an example of a primary prevention program?

A)Girls Inc.Program
B)Alcoholics Anonymous
C)vaccination against smallpox
D)stress management training for healthy persons

Question 13

To prevent means to keep something from happening.

Question 14

The major focus of the settlement house movement was to help people deal with:

A)mental illness.
B)poor education.
C)crime.
D)hunger.
E)(b), (c), and (d) are correct.

Question 15

It was not until the latter part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century that significant efforts were made to prevent mental illness.

Question 16

Active primary prevention strategies include:

A)T.V.programs demonstrating how problems develop.
B)newspaper articles describing problems.
C)developing coping skills with target populations.
D)going to a therapist.
E)all of the above

Question 17

Early detection and treatment of dysfunction is defined as secondary prevention.

Question 18

Critical aspects of primary prevention are that:

A)it must be group- or mass-oriented.
B)it is focused on high-risk groups.
C)it is aimed at specific target populations.
D)it can deal with the general population.
E)all of the above

Question 19

More money is spent throughout the U.S.on primary prevention programs than on treatment programs.

Question 20

Prior to the 1960s, most prevention programs aimed at mental illness were carried out by the Public Health Service.

Question 21

Community psychology is one of the few but growing number of human services professions that recognizes the critical importance of primary prevention.

Question 22

Society pays a huge financial cost for disorders that are not prevented.