CIC CIC Crisis Resource Coordination & Referral Systems 2

Question 1

A mobile crisis team most commonly includes which combination of professionals?

Accepted Answer

A mental health clinician and a peer support specialist

Answer

Mobile crisis teams typically pair a licensed mental health professional with a peer support specialist to provide trauma-informed, community-based crisis response.

Question 2

What is the primary purpose of a safety plan developed during crisis intervention?

Accepted Answer

To provide the client with personalized coping strategies and contacts to use during future crises

Answer

A safety plan is a collaborative, individualized tool that outlines warning signs, coping strategies, support contacts, and means restriction steps to help the client manage future crises.

Question 3

Which community resource is best suited for a client experiencing both a mental health crisis and acute homelessness?

Accepted Answer

A co-occurring crisis shelter with housing and mental health services

Answer

Co-occurring crisis shelters address both immediate housing needs and mental health stabilization, making them the most appropriate resource for dually affected clients.

Question 4

When a client is being referred to inpatient psychiatric care, the crisis counselor's primary responsibility is to:

Accepted Answer

Ensure the client understands the process and feels supported through the transition

Answer

Supporting the client emotionally and informationally during the transfer reduces fear, increases cooperation, and promotes engagement with the receiving level of care.

Question 5

In crisis services, 'wrap-around services' refers to:

Accepted Answer

A coordinated package of individualized community supports built around the client's needs

Answer

Wrap-around services are a coordinated, strengths-based approach that integrates multiple community supports—housing, mental health, substance use, and social services—around the individual.

(CIC) Crisis Intervention Counselor Practice Test

(CIC) Crisis Intervention Counselor Practice Test

CIC CIC Crisis Resource Coordination & Referral Systems 2