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CRISIS INTERVENTION CHAPT 1 questions and answers certified 2024
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CRISIS INTERVENTION CHAPT 1-5FOUR PARTS OF A CRISIS - correct answer ✔1: A precipitating event
occurs
2:a person has a perception of an event as threatening or damaging
3:the perception leads to emotional distress
4:the emotional distress leads to impairment in functioning due to failure of an
individual to use coping skills
GERALD CAPLAN - correct answer ✔Father of modern Crisis Intervention
worked with Eric Lindemann on the Wellesley Project after the Coconut Grove
Fire
ABC MODEL - correct answer ✔A) Develop and maintain contact
B) Identify the problem
C) Coping
developed by Kanel in 1995
Focus of the ABC model is to identify the precipitating event and the clients
cognitions about the precipitating event, emotional distress, failed coping
mechanisms, and impaired function.
BEHAVIORAL PROBLEM SOLVING MODEL - correct answer ✔Approach
focusing on goal setting, problem solving, and brainstorming alternatives.
1-Define the problem
2-Review ways that you have already tried to correct the problem
,3-Decide what you want when the problem is solved
4-Brainstorm alternatives
5-Select alternatives and commit to following through with them
6-follow up
BRIEF THERAPY - correct answer ✔May be confused with crisis
intervention-BUT focuses on creative change and incorporating new styles of
relating to the world
Clients explore past patterns of behavior and how the patterns have
prevented them from succeeding in life the way they have wanted to succeed.
CAPLANS 7 CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE COPING BEHAVIOR -
correct answer ✔1) Actively exploring reality issues and searching for
information
2)Freely expressing both positive and negative feelings and tolerating
frustration
3) Actively invoking help from others
4) Breaking problems into manageable bits and working through them one at
a time
5)Being aware of fatigue and pacing coping efforts while maintaining control in
as many areas of functioning as possible
6) Mastering feeling where possible :being flexible and willing to change
,7)Trusting in oneself and others and having a basic optimism about the
outcome.
COCOANUT GROVE FIRE - correct answer ✔Nightclub fire in Boston on
November 28, 1942 in which over 400 people died, leaving many survivors in
crisis-considered one of the major events leading to the development of crisis
intervention as a form of mental health treatment
It was the single largest building fire in US history
COGNITIVE APPROACHES - correct answer ✔Approaches focusing on a
persons perceptions and thinking processes and how these lead to crisis
states.
Based on ALBERT ELLIS'S Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Becks Cognitive Therapy
Meichenbaums Self Instruction Training
Theses approaches are concerned with understanding the persons cognitive
view of the problem and then restricting and reframing any maladaptive
cognitions -stress homework assignments and follow up
COGNITIVE KEY - correct answer ✔The perception a person has of the
precipitating events that lead to emotional distress.
The crisis worker must identify the perception if she is to help the client
change it and thereby increase functioning.
, COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH ACT OF 1963 - correct answer
✔Legislation enacted during the Kennedy administration directing all states to
provide mental health treatment for people in crisis
By 1980 there would be one community mental health center per 100,000
individuals
COPING METHODS - correct answer ✔The behaviors, thinking, and
emotional processes that a a person uses to handle stress and continue to
function.
CRISIS - correct answer ✔A state of disequuilibrium that occurs after a
stressor( precipitating event) The person is then unable to function in one or
more areas of his or her life because customary coping mechanism have
failed.
CURVLINIEAR MODEL OF ANXIETY - correct answer ✔Model showing that
anxiety has the potential to be either a positive or negative influence for
someone in crisis
Too much anxiety may overwhelm the person and lead to lowered functioning.
Moderate anxiety may offer an opportunity for growth and transition from one
stage of life to another -or may motivate the person to grow from the
experience of trauma -
moderate anxiety leads to optimal motivation
People with no anxiety tend not to be motivated to make any change at all
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