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Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Which human services development occurred during the Carter administration?
a. The creation of the Department of Health & Human Services
b. Free public school meals provided to all children regardless of economic status
c. A law providing assistance for the care of the elderly at home or in the homes of relatives
d. A prescription drug act and an expanded support of faith-based human services
2. Which human service development Act was passed during the Bill Clinton administration?
a. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)
b. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA)
c. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
d. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
3. What is the concept of “leave alone”?
a. Encourage a social attitude of live and let live.
b. Accept the responsibility for the state poor.
c. Help the less fortunate and facilitate the survival of the unfit.
d. Focus on a societal, rather than individual, responsibility.
4. The concept of “Friendly Supervision” was introduced by _________.
a. Dr. Benjamin Rush
b. Dorotha Dix
c. Judge Peter
d. John Augustus
5. For which type of dependent was an almshouse built in Massachusetts?
a. For the able-bodied poor
b. For people with physical disabilities
c. For people with mental illness
d. All of these are correct.
6. What is the best way to deal with poverty according to the organized charity movement?
a. Friendly meeting between poor and poor
b. Friendly meeting between rich and rich
c. Community meetings between rich community and poor community
d. Friendly meeting between rich and poor
7. The Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health made two recommendations that directly affected the
human service movement, which were
a. the creation of NIMH and funding for human service education programs.
b. the professionalization of mental health workers and educational opportunities.
c. new mental health workers and programs to train them.
d. a national mental health program and nonmedical workers.
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8. Human services flourished under all but which of the following presidents?
a. Johnson
b. Kennedy
c. Reagan
d. Roosevelt
9. Benjamin Franklin established one of the first formal institutions for
a. people with physical disabilities.
b. widows.
c. people with mental disturbances.
d. criminals.
10. Protection from economic instability and an expansion of welfare activities characterized
a. Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
b. the Immigration and Naturalization Act.
c. Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare.
d. the Social Security Act of 1935.
11. Who is known as “Father of American Psychiatry”?
a. Dr. John Addams
b. Dr. Benjamin Rush
c. Dr. Edward Star
d. Dr. Dennis Dix
12. In which year was the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of law signed by President Obama?
a. March 2009
b. March 2006
c. March 2010
d. March 2008
13. The concept of “less eligibility” was introduced in 1834 to
a. limit assistance.
b. determine who was eligible for human services.
c. promote institutional reform in prisons, almshouses, and asylums.
d. emphasize the benefits of social engineering.
14. What have proponents of universal health care argued about the United States as a wealthy industrialized
nation?
a. It is the most expensive country to get health care in.
b. It does not have a universal health care system.
c. It ranks last in the quality of health care among developed nations.
d. It does not have health insurance companies.
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15. What was the goal of the organized charity movement?
a. To eliminate difficulties such as robbery
b. To eliminate difficulties such as copywriting
c. To eliminate difficulties such as fraud or duplication
d. None of these
16. Relief for the poor was the responsibility of which provider during the Middle Ages?
a. The church
b. Feudal lords
c. The government
d. Institutions
17. Until the Middle Ages people believed that mental illness was caused by the presence of _____________ in
the body.
a. chemicals
b. evil spirits
c. heredity
d. natural causes
18. The first almshouse was built in which state?
a. Vermont
b. Connecticut
c. Massachusetts
d. Rhode Island
19. New ways of assisting those in need during the Middle Ages was prompted by all EXCEPT
a. the private sector.
b. the decline of feudalism.
c. the growth of commerce.
d. industrialization.
20. Inquisitions determined the diagnosis of mental illness as _______.
a. impotent poor
b. non compos mentis
c. orphans
d. compos mentis
21. The dramatic change in the care of the mentally ill that occurred by the end of the 18th century and resulted
in more humane treatment is known as
a. the first revolution in mental health.
b. a time of change.
c. the decade of victory.
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d. the mental health movement.
22. Significant developments in the early 1900s, a period known as the sociological era, included all EXCEPT
a. new treatment modalities for the mentally ill.
b. a re-examination of the causes of poverty.
c. the development of the profession of social work.
d. the professionalization of human services.
23. All of the following are features of the Elizabethan Poor Law EXCEPT
a. a classification system for dependents according to their ability to work.
b. compulsory taxation to raise funds to help.
c. inhumane treatment for those in institutions.
d. responsibility for “have nots” was first with the family.
24. By the 1850s, special institutions for the blind, the mentally ill, criminals, and other groups were established
because of the belief that
a. public agencies should assume more responsibility for these groups.
b. reform, rehabilitation, and education were possible.
c. the condition of these people would improve in pastoral settings.
d. “less eligibility” demanded better treatment.
25. Hippocrates, a doctor in the third century BC, was one of the few professionals who believed that problem
behavior was a function of
a. chemicals.
b. evil spirits.
c. heredity.
d. natural causes.
26. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 was passed to
a. establish a method for verifying customers’ enrollment in Medicare.
b. provide an easy way to obtain prescriptions.
c. prevent prescription drug abuse.
d. provide outpatient prescription drug benefits for individuals on Medicare.
27. To help states develop programs for increased training, research, and practice, legislation to improve mental
health created the
a. National Institute of Mental Health.
b. Joint Commission on Mental Health.
c. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
d. Action for Mental Health initiative.
28. Proponents of laissez faire economics and Social Darwinism discouraged human service provisions by the
a. asylums.
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b. church.
c. government.
d. private sector.
29. The idea behind the passage of the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 was to
a. serve Vietnam veterans.
b. create a setting for a new type of mental health worker.
c. provide an array of services to the population.
d. eradicate mental illness among those living in poverty.
30. The colonists used which of the following as a model for meeting the needs of indigents, idlers, criminals,
orphans, and others?
a. Concept of less eligibility
b. Elizabethan Poor Laws
c. Institutions
d. Law of Settlement
31. How did the philosophies of individualism, Social Darwinism, and laissez-faire influence social
justice in the 19th century?
32. How did Clifford Beers help reform the treatment of the mentally ill in the 20th century?
33. Describe the federal government’s involvement in human services during the presidential
administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
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