CRIS 605 Final
CRIS 605 Final Liberty University
CRIS 605 Quiz Final
- Once a woman decides to leave the battering relationship, comes to an abuse shelter, and regains some psychological equilibrium, the crisis worker’s first job is to provide immediate practical advice on such issues as finding a place to live, child care, financial aid, etc.
- When women finally decide to end the relationship and leave they will have:
- The Duluth model can best be characterized as:
- Pile up crises for families occur when stressors accumulate over many months.
- The contextual model for family crisis intervention recognizes:
- An appropriate example of providing immediate, short-term, and brief crisis intervention with the bereaved following a sudden death would be:
- The more contemporary Dutro model of grieving is a fixed, linear stage model that proposes that people all grieve in about the same way.
- When using the dual process model you should:
- Disputing negative self-talk a bereaved divorced person has about the break-up of a marriage may be effective because emotional energy can then be directed toward dealing constructively with real, contemporary issues.
- Of the following members of a school CRT, who does not belong?
- If the worker determines the student is carrying a weapon it should be forcibly confiscated by the worker immediately.
- Of the following, which member of a school CRT is most responsible for the general control and decision making?
- Education of a client is the first stage of violence prevention in institutions.
- A past family history of violence is not a very good predictor of violence that a client may have in a larger, community, social context.
- Appeasement is most appropriate:
- One of the best predictors of violence is past violence.
- Mental health professionals who are considering serving as a volunteer in disaster situations should determine
- whether their professional liability policy will be in effect while serving as a volunteer rather than as part of their employment.
- Specialized ethics training is needed for crisis workers because:
- Of the following, which is not a building block for burnout?
- Countertransference is the:
- Many of the myths that engender burnout are supported by what Albert Ellis calls the _____________ thoughts people tell themselves about their work.
- Of the following statements about burnout, which is not true?
- The ACT Model of crisis intervention seems most appropriate for long term transcrisis intervention when the person cannot seem to get out of the crisis after a long period of time.
- Chaos theory is really a theory of:
- Chaos theory is a positive theory of crisis because it causes new, previously unknown solutions to be found.
- A smart crisis worker would attempt to enlist help and support from members of the indigenous community.
- A collectivist multicultural view emphasizes the:
- In the planning phase of crisis intervention, collaboration as opposed to directive stances with clients is important because of the central issues of clients feeling a sense of:
- Of the following neurological factors that may contribute to the severity of a crisis, which is not true?
- In Task 3 Providing support, which of the following does not belong?
- Which of the following is not a disowned statement?
- As odd and paradoxical as it may seem, expansion and focusing strategies may both be helpful in crisis intervention.
- Of the following, which is not a major reason for community mental health centers’ decrease in service to the chronically mentally ill?
- In long-term therapy, one of the times that there is a major risk of a crisis occurring is:
- Typical CIT training includes learning all of the following except:
- Crisis lines work because they:
- One of the techniques for dealing with severely disturbed callers is to reflect their disturbed feelings and share their delusions.
- Telephone crisis centers have ready access to a variety of support systems.
- With many types of disturbed callers, the center’s focus should be on:
- In childhood Type II traumas, children rarely misperceive or distort the trauma once brought to awareness.
- There is evidence that intense and continuous stress can cause permanent physical changes to occur in the brain.
- A SUDS and VOC rating that both went down after an EMDR session would mean that the client felt some relief from the trauma.
- Which one of the following is not listed as a myth about suicide?
- The impact of having failed to save a person who was a client, or the victim of the client, can be overwhelming and can cause the crisis worker to experience what is called:
- In working with suicidal clients, even when they admit their lethal thoughts, confidentiality and privileged information make it legally, ethically, and morally difficult for the crisis interventionist to break confidence.
- Suicide is the leading cause of death of adolescents in the United States.
- Rape can happen to anyone and rapists come from all segments of society.
- From a feminist standpoint, rape occurs because the perpetrator:
- Enticement and entrapment are no longer used by child molesters in favor of threats and coercion.
Set 2
- Interpersonal theory states that:
- About the best one can hope for after a hard loss is, in time to get back to some semblance of equilibrium and homeostasis.
- “We” statements are an excellent way to build collaboration.
- Burnout encompasses not only the work setting, but also all other environments of the individual.
- It is extremely important to be careful in word choice and to use brevity when doing crisis intervention over the Internet.
- The suicide rate among children and adolescents has been essentially stable since 1950.
- Which of the following is appropriate in dealing with a self–defeating personality?
- Multiculturalists in the United States are highly aware of how the competencies they promote apply outside the United States.
- The mentally ill adolescent has a high probability to commit a violent act.
- Denial by both staff and institutions contributes to institutional violence.
- The Hybrid model of crisis intervention epitomizes a stage or linear model.
- One of the major problems in a community telephone crisis line is that workers have to be “expert” in a large variety of areas.
- The crisis worker who interacts with complete acceptance of clients demonstrates:
- Mental illness and emotional disturbance calls make up a large percentage of law enforcement calls that fall under the category of expressive crimes.
- People with strong death wishes are invariably:
- Psychobiolgical assessment is important for people in crisis because dramatic changes can occur in neurotransmitters when people are traumatized.
- The human service worker who wishes to deescalate a potentially violent confrontation with a client will:
- The impact of having failed to save a person who was a client, or the victim of the client, can be overwhelming and can cause the crisis worker to experience what is called:
- Assessment tools such as the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief generally look for:
- An effective way of counteracting burnout would be to:
- Communicating empathically means focusing exclusively on the accurate restatement of the content of verbal messages and not trying to guess at underlying meanings.
- In Task 3 Providing support, which of the following does not belong?
- Ethically, crisis intervention workers are encouraged to prepare for crisis or disaster situations before, during the crises or disaster, and the period of post crisis recovery.
- If a worker quietly sat by and allowed a client to cry for five minutes and bemoan her broken engagement, the worker would be engaging in ______ as a technique.
- Reliving the crisis often happens after a crisis as family members tell and retell their story several times.
- Because the Internet is international in scope there is no need to carry liability insurance if you are offering professional counseling services over it because there are no international ethical standards.
- EMDR should not be used with children because it is very intrusive and may reignite the trauma.
- Of the following cultural barriers, which is not identified in the text?
- People all share a common sense of what normal behavior is.
- Of the following statements, which does notapply to the disturbed caller?
- A rating of 9 on a specifictriage A, B, or C scale would indicate:
- The ACT Model of crisis intervention seems most appropriate for long term transcrisis intervention when the person cannot seem to get out of the crisis after a long period of time.
- The recommended treatment of choice for sexually abused children is:
- Allowing clients to cathart about the issue only compounds the crisis.
- Owning feeling is probably more important in crisis intervention because of the need to be directive.
- An important aspect of listening is to respond in ways that let the client know that the worker is hearing both the content and underlying emotional content.
- Natural support systems are often more important than formal counseling systems in providing relief.
- An intrusive but effective method for extinguishing PTSD in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse is______ of the event.
- Family crises always cause alliances in families to strengthen.
- While important for effective intervention, consultation and supervision have little to do with stopping burnout.
- A number of researchers have attempted to create typologies of batterers. Which of the following is notone of those types?
- There is little reason to believe that the war in Iraq will produce PTSD casualties among U.S. soldiers as did the war in Vietnam.
- If you had just been raped and were at the hospital you would want a _______ as a first responder.
- Bereavement overload is real and can be extremely detrimental to workers
- Crisis intervention in the United States started at about the time of the Revolutionary War.
- At times the telephone worker may have to provide sexual information and resources regarding sexual behavior to a caller.
- In the planning phase of crisis intervention, collaboration as opposed to directive stances with clients is important because of the central issues of clients feeling a sense of:
- A crisis theory that views the person’s crisis as the result of defense mechanisms that have stopped working is:
- Affective State Dependent Retention is important to PTSD because it theorizes that:
- Open ended questions do all but which of the following?