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.