Examination questions for Mental Health and Society.
By popular request, here are some questions. Lovingly recovered from a defective computer at Milton Keynes and reconstructed for you, please be warned that they're not necessarily the best guide to what I will be looking for. The best guide to what I want in the impending exam is my hints in class in the last weeks before Easter.
Examination questions for Mental Health and Society
1, Why do mental health professionals perform diagnoses on their clients? Is this likely to be helpful?
2, Why does research in most western nations report a gender difference in rates of depression?
3, How is it possible to explain self-injury?
4, What kinds of therapy using psychological principles can be offered to people suffering from schizophrenia?
5, How far can mental health professionals help people who have been abused as children?
6, Critically discuss the psychological help available to people suffering from anxiety disorders.
7, Why does domestic violence happen?
8, Discuss the value of cross-cultural studies in determining the possible causes of eating disorders.
Examination questions for Mental Health and Society
1, To what extent does diagnosing a client's problem help them? Is it possible for mental health care to exisit without diagnosis?
2, Why is it depressing to be a woman?
3, To what extent is self-injury a feminist issue?
4, How far can psychological (i.e. non-drug) therapies be helpful to people suffering from schizophrenia?
5, How far is it possible for mental health professionals help people who have been abused as children?
6, Critically evaluate the major psychological therapies which have been applied to people suffering from anxiety disorders.
7, How have researchers attempted to make sense of domestic violence?
8, To what extent is it possible to interpret eating disorders in terms of western culture?
Exam questions for Mental Health and Society
Two hours
Answer two questions
1, What are the advantages ad disadvantages of categorising abnormal behaviour?
2, Describe the major theoretical approaches to depression. Why do so many studies show such a profound gender difference in rates of depression?
3, Why do people suffer from anxiety disorders?
4, What consequences does child abuse have for the abused individual?
5, What role do psychological principles have in offering therapy for ‘schizophrenia’? Describe some recent approaches.
6, To what extent are eating disorders a product of Western culture? Illustrate your answer with reference to cross cultural studies of this area.
7, Can physical problems occur as a result of psychological distress?
Exam questions for Mental Health and Society
Two hours
Answer two questions
1, Why categorise abnormal behaviour? Is it possible to help distressed individuals without diagnosis?
2, Why are women more likely to be depressed than men?
3, Does anxiety tell us anything about social inequality?
4, What is child abuse? To what extent is ‘therapy’ beneficial for the abused individual?
5, What is ‘schizophrenia’? Describe some recent approaches to therapy for this disorder.
6, Could eating disorders exist without the Western culture of slimness? Why or why not?
7, Does psychological distress lead to physical symptoms? Describe some of the major syndromes, theories and research in this area.
8, Why do people hurt themselves?
Exam questions for Mental Health and Society
Two hours
Answer two questions
1, To what extent does categorising abnormal behaviour help distressed individuals?
2, Why is depression more widespread amongst women than men in western societies?
3, What help can psychology offer to people suffering from anxiety disorders?
4, How is it possible to help individuals who have suffered from child abuse?
5, Answer either part a or part b:
a) Why is ‘schizophrenia’ still a controversial construct after nearly a century of research and theory?
b) What have psychological approaches achieved in therapy for ‘schizophrenia’? To what extent can they replace mainstream medical models of treatment?
6, Do eating disorders result from Western culture? Can they ever be fully cured by means of psychological therapies?
7, Does psychological distress lead to physical health problems?
8. To what extent is self-injury a feminist issue?
Resit questions for Mental Health and Society
Two hours. Answer two questions
1. Why categorise abnormal behaviour?
2. To what extent are eating disorders linked to western culture?
3. How does child abuse have an impact on the future mental health of the abused individual?
4. Does stress lead to ill health? Critically discuss theories which have attempted to explain the possible link.
5. What is schizophrenia? Why has it been such a controversial concept within psychology and psychiatry?
6. It is depressing to be a woman?
7. What can psychologists do about anxiety conditions?