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Chapter 34: The Neighborhood and Community

Multiple Choice

1. Recently there has been more attention on the influence of neighborhoods and community on mental health. Identify why this is important for occupational therapy practitioners.

a. It supports occupational therapy’s belief that physical and social environments can support or interfere with occupational performance.

b. It supports occupational therapy’s belief that client factors can support or interfere with occupational performance.

c. It supports occupational therapy’s belief that performance skills can support or interfere with occupational performance.

d. It supports occupational therapy’s belief that performance patterns can support or interfere with occupational performance.

Topic: Introduction

LO: 34.1

2. How would you define a geographic area that is close to your home and provides opportunities for you to become friends with those who live in this area, as well as provide and receive physical and emotional support from these individuals?

a. Community

b. Catchment area

c. Village

d. Neighborhood

Topic: Definition of Neighborhood and Community

LO: 34.2

3. Which of the following most accurately represents the current interest in the relationship between neighborhoods, communities, and mental health?

a. The less-than-optimal results of deinstitutionalization require exploration and modification of residential support facilities for people with mental illness.

b. It supports the concept of marginalization.

c. Historically, the understanding of mental illness has been focused on the individual level; there is now a need to incorporate broader social and ecological perspectives.

d. It supports placing older adults in assisted living facilities.

Topic: Current Interest in Neighborhoods and Communities

LO: 34.3

4. Recent research suggests that engagement in meaningful daily activities may decrease a person’s exposure to unsafe situations. Which of the following best supports this finding?

a. It decreases the concern of drug use and dealing in their neighborhood.

b. They allow individuals to develop skills and knowledge that can be used to navigate neighborhood conflict.

c. Engagement in daily activities increases occupational balance.

d. The development of a supportive social network can eliminate harassment and victimization.

Topic: Relationship of Neighborhood Environment to Occupation

LO: 34.4

5. Which of the following has demonstrated the most effectiveness in reducing stigma?

a. Interpersonal contact

b. Distribution of educational material

c. Organized protests

d. Social activism

Topic: Relationship of Neighborhood Environment to Occupation

LO: 34.4

6. The neighborhood profile will also provide information related to the potential for the development of a consumer-run business. Which of the following best describes a consumer-run business?

a. A business venture developed to achieve social outcomes

b. Supportive employment

c. A business venture run by a community mental health center

d. A business venture run completely by mental health consumers

Topic: Intervening to Develop Supportive Neighborhood Communities

LO: 34.5

7. Using the strength-based approach described by Kretzmann and colleagues to establish occupational therapy practice in the area of community development, you would begin with an assessment of the community. Which of the following should be included in this assessment?

a. Identify financial resources that communities could contribute to people with mental illness.

b. Identify skills and resources that people with mental illness could contribute to their communities.

c. Identify potential residential facilities for people with mental illness.

d. Determine how community agencies can prevent re-hospitalization for individuals with mental illness.

Topic: Dynamic Assessment of Neighborhood and Community Capacity

LO: 34.6

8. As a community-based practitioner, you want to create a peer support program to assist your clients with community integration. Which of the following best represents a peer support strategy you could implement?

a. Establish a mentor program.

b. Establish community accessibility committees.

c. Establish reduced transit fare for people with disabilities.

d. Establish a supportive education program.

Topic: Examples of Neighborhood Interventions

LO: 34.7

9. Contemporary theories suggest that which of the following may explain the successful acceptance and inclusion of people with mental illness in neighborhood communities?

a. The provision of extra resources for people with mental illness

b. Strong Neighborhood Watch programs

c. Opportunities for prosocial contact with residents with mental illness

d. Distance of the local neighborhood from the mental health institution

Topic: Neighborhood Safety

10. Social capital refers to ____________.

a. The wealth of a specific neighborhood or community

b. The extent to which residents have access to social services and programs within a neighborhood or community

c. Social networks and norms that feature trust, cooperation, and reciprocity

d. Economic initiatives to improve the daily lives of vulnerable community residents

Topic: Neighborhood Organization and Activism

11. Occupational therapy practitioners engaged in community development focus on ____________.

a. Ensuring that people who experience mental health issues have access to meaningful occupational opportunities in neighborhood communities

b. Developing mental health services and programs in local neighborhoods as indicated by neighborhood profiles

c. Assisting people with mental illness to relocate, where necessary, to inclusive neighborhood communities

d. Delivering community-based services to people with mental illness to address their daily living needs

Topic: Intervening to Develop Supportive Neighborhood Communities

12. Housing First refers to a specific housing approach for people with mental illness who are at risk for homelessness. A defining feature of the approach is __________.

a. A particular focus is on ensuring decent housing conditions

b. Ensuring that housing provides the needed level of support to residents

c. Ensuring neighborhood acceptance of the housing

d. Housing provided based on individual choice without stipulations for treatment

Topic: Neighborhood Safety