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Role of Social Worker
100
This at risk population is the second highest homeless subpopulation
What is people with severe mental illness
100
This act will expand mental health and substance abuse services by building on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
What is Affordable Care Act
100
This model of treatment addresses both an individual’s mental health disorder and drug addiction.
What is Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT)
200
Poverty, decreased federal support for subsidized housing, reduction in the demand of unskilled labor and fewer opportunities for day-labor, minimal access to health care are examples of what type of factors that contribute to homelessness
What is macro-level factors
200
This act permitted funding for the creation and operation of comprehensive community mental health centers (CMCHs) and reinforced the deinstitutionalization movement
Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963
200
Social workers use _________ to provide insight on behaviors and outcomes needed to achieve goals. This helps understand what influences an individuals choices and participation in health care.
What is Social Contexts
300
This movement, which was an effort to shift the locus of psychiatric care for people with SMI from long-term state mental institutions to community mental health services is thought by many to be a primary contributor to the rise in homelessness among the severely mentally ill population in the 70s and 80s
What is deinstitutionalization
300
True or False: With the addition of the Affordable Care Act, 3.9 million people covered by the individual market and 1.2 million individuals in small group will respectively gain both mental and substance abuse coverage if they already did not have it.
What is True
300
When a patient is being released from inpatient treatment, these plans must include explicit housing arrangements and service supports that will be available to the person as they return into the community
What is discharge plans
400
Does homelessness lead to substance abuse? Or does substance abuse lead to homelessness?
What is both
400
This process, which is generally marked by the arrival of wealthier people in an existing urban district, a related increase in rents and property values, and changes in the district's character and culture, is pointed to as a primary contributor to the rise in homelessness among the severely mentally ill population
What is gentrification
400
This service, in which social workers coordinate services for the client, is most effective in reducing homelessness among people with severe mental illness when it is individualized to meet the specific needs of the client
What is case management
500
During the deinstitutionalization movement, many patients removed from state hospitals moved into these lost cost housing units
What is Single Room Occupancies (SROs)
500
This program, authorized in 1990 by the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act, provides funding for services for people with SMI who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
What is Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH Program)
500
This service focuses on racial/ethnic minorities and medically underserved populations, promotes a more patient-centric health care service delivery model, integrates a fragmented health care system for the benefit of patients, and eliminates barriers to timely and appropriate care
What is Patient Navigation