CCIS CCIS Crisis Intervention Models & Frameworks 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Roberts' Seven-Stage Crisis Intervention Model begins with which stage?
- Establish rapport
- Plan follow-up
- Assess lethality and safety needs (Correct answer)
- Generate and explore alternatives
Correct answer: Assess lethality and safety needs
Roberts' model begins with assessing lethality and safety, because determining the immediacy of physical danger is the prerequisite for all subsequent crisis intervention steps.
Question 2: The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention focuses on:
- Affect, Behavior, and Cognition (Correct answer)
- Assessment, Bonding, and Closure
- Admission, Baseline, and Compliance
- Anxiety, Breathing, and Coping
Correct answer: Affect, Behavior, and Cognition
The ABC Model addresses Affect (emotional state), Behavior (actions), and Cognition (thoughts and beliefs) to help the crisis counselor understand and influence the client's crisis experience.
Question 3: The Psychological First Aid (PFA) model was developed primarily for use in:
- Long-term psychotherapy settings
- Disaster and mass trauma situations (Correct answer)
- Correctional facilities
- School disciplinary contexts
Correct answer: Disaster and mass trauma situations
PFA is an evidence-informed approach designed to help survivors of disasters, mass trauma, and community crises by addressing immediate safety, comfort, practical needs, and social connectedness.
Question 4: A key principle distinguishing crisis intervention from traditional therapy is that crisis intervention is:
- Long-term and exploratory
- Brief, focused on the immediate problem, and time-limited (Correct answer)
- Primarily medication-based
- Conducted only in inpatient settings
Correct answer: Brief, focused on the immediate problem, and time-limited
Crisis intervention is inherently short-term and problem-focused, aimed at restoring the person to pre-crisis functioning rather than addressing deep-seated psychological issues.
Question 5: In the Transactional Model of Crisis, a crisis occurs when:
- A person experiences any stressful event
- The perceived demands of a situation exceed the person's perceived coping resources (Correct answer)
- A person has a history of mental illness
- Social support is abundant but not utilized
Correct answer: The perceived demands of a situation exceed the person's perceived coping resources
The Transactional Model holds that a crisis results not from the event itself but from the individual's perception that their resources are insufficient to meet the demands of the situation.
Question 6: The equilibrium model of crisis intervention focuses on:
- Long-term personality reconstruction
- Restoring the client's pre-crisis emotional and functional equilibrium (Correct answer)
- Eliminating all future stressors
- Identifying childhood trauma roots of the crisis
Correct answer: Restoring the client's pre-crisis emotional and functional equilibrium
The equilibrium model aims to return the individual to a state of psychological balance and functioning that existed before the crisis, rather than achieving deeper therapeutic change.
CCIS CCIS Crisis Intervention Models & Frameworks 1
Roberts' Seven-Stage Crisis Intervention Model begins with which stage?