Crisis Intervention Strategies Flashcards
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According to Roberts' Seven-Stage Model of Crisis Intervention, the first stage after establishing rapport is to:
Answer: Assess lethality and safety needs
In Roberts' model, after building rapport (Stage 1), the counselor conducts a lethality assessment (Stage 2) to evaluate safety before proceeding to identify problems.
A counselor working with a survivor of sexual assault should avoid which common harmful response?
Answer: Asking what the survivor was wearing at the time of the assault
Asking about clothing implies victim-blaming and can re-traumatize the survivor. This type of response is harmful and clinically contraindicated.
The concept of 'psychological triage' in disaster mental health refers to:
Answer: Prioritizing survivors based on the severity and immediacy of their psychological needs
Psychological triage involves quickly assessing and prioritizing survivors based on the severity of their immediate psychological distress and needs.
In crisis intervention, the term 'equilibrium' refers to:
Answer: The state of psychological balance that a person returns to after successfully resolving a crisis
Crisis theory uses 'equilibrium' to describe the state of psychological balance or homeostasis that individuals seek to restore following a crisis.
A counselor who works in a school setting learns that a student has made credible threats to harm classmates. The counselor's obligation under Tarasoff includes:
Answer: Warning the identifiable potential victims and notifying law enforcement
The Tarasoff duty to warn requires clinicians to take reasonable steps to protect identifiable third parties from serious threats of harm, including notifying potential victims.
Which type of crisis is characterized by an unexpected external event that overwhelms an individual's coping resources, such as a natural disaster?
Answer: Situational crisis
A situational crisis arises from an external, often unexpected event (such as a disaster, accident, or sudden loss) that disrupts a person's normal functioning.