CCIS Crisis Intervention Models & Frameworks Flashcards

Roberts' Seven-Stage Crisis Intervention Model begins with which stage?

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.

The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention focuses on:

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.

The Psychological First Aid (PFA) model was developed primarily for use in:

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.

A key principle distinguishing crisis intervention from traditional therapy is that crisis intervention is:

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.

In the Transactional Model of Crisis, a crisis occurs when:

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.

The equilibrium model of crisis intervention focuses on:

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.