CRIS 605- Chapter 1 questions
and answers 2025(graded A+)
First known crisis phone line - answer National Save-a-Live League (1906)
Coconaut Grove nightclub fire - answer Dr. Erich Lindemann's clinical
assessment of survivors (1942)
Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 - answer large state-run
asylums were replaced by community mental health centers
Where are the greatest number of frontline volunteers used? - answer
Staffing 24-hour suicide hotlines in major cities
More than 75% of all crisis centers in the US report that volunteer workers
outnumber professional staff by more than __ to __ - answer 6 to 1
Crisis intervention typically remains unrecognized by the public until
victims/victim advocates exert enough __, ___, or ___ pressure to cause
change - answer legal, political, economic
As crisis agencies become crisis organizations, they gain ___, ___, and ___ -
answer power, prestige, notoriety
Three major grassroots movements that helped shape crisis intervention
into an emerging specialty - answer Alcoholics Anonymous (AA); Vietnam
Veterans, Women's movement during the 1970s
Large influx of crisis organizations from the ____s to _____s - answer 1970s-
1990s
, What caused the large influx of crisis organizations in the 1970s-1990s? -
answer recognition that immediate intervention is essential in alleviating
stress related to trauma
Crisis response grows from _____ efforts to _____ ______ as the need for
organization grows - answer all-volunteer; bureaucratic institutions
Professional recognition within the helping fields - answer Division 56:
Trauma Psychology, American Psychology Association (2006)
Accreditation standards set by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling
& Educationally Related Programs (2009) and National Association of
School Psychologists (2010)
____ has a significant influence on public consciousness - answer media
_______ brought war images into the public discourse - answer Matthew
Brady's Civil War photographs
In what positive and negative ways does real-time news coverage of crisis
events impact our perceptions of a small, interconnected world? - answer
Positive: public recognition about crisis intervention
Negative: people may rush in to help haphazardly
What are the characteristics of an altruistic or therapeutic community? -
answer disappearance of community conflicts, heightened internal
solidarity, charity, sharing, communal public works, and positive attitude
when people travel to disaster scenes to provide unrequested assistance
or to gawk at survivors - answer trauma tourism
Crisis is the perception or experiencing of an event or situation as an
intolerable difficulty that exceeds the person's current resources and
coping mechanisms - answer individual crisis
and answers 2025(graded A+)
First known crisis phone line - answer National Save-a-Live League (1906)
Coconaut Grove nightclub fire - answer Dr. Erich Lindemann's clinical
assessment of survivors (1942)
Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 - answer large state-run
asylums were replaced by community mental health centers
Where are the greatest number of frontline volunteers used? - answer
Staffing 24-hour suicide hotlines in major cities
More than 75% of all crisis centers in the US report that volunteer workers
outnumber professional staff by more than __ to __ - answer 6 to 1
Crisis intervention typically remains unrecognized by the public until
victims/victim advocates exert enough __, ___, or ___ pressure to cause
change - answer legal, political, economic
As crisis agencies become crisis organizations, they gain ___, ___, and ___ -
answer power, prestige, notoriety
Three major grassroots movements that helped shape crisis intervention
into an emerging specialty - answer Alcoholics Anonymous (AA); Vietnam
Veterans, Women's movement during the 1970s
Large influx of crisis organizations from the ____s to _____s - answer 1970s-
1990s
, What caused the large influx of crisis organizations in the 1970s-1990s? -
answer recognition that immediate intervention is essential in alleviating
stress related to trauma
Crisis response grows from _____ efforts to _____ ______ as the need for
organization grows - answer all-volunteer; bureaucratic institutions
Professional recognition within the helping fields - answer Division 56:
Trauma Psychology, American Psychology Association (2006)
Accreditation standards set by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling
& Educationally Related Programs (2009) and National Association of
School Psychologists (2010)
____ has a significant influence on public consciousness - answer media
_______ brought war images into the public discourse - answer Matthew
Brady's Civil War photographs
In what positive and negative ways does real-time news coverage of crisis
events impact our perceptions of a small, interconnected world? - answer
Positive: public recognition about crisis intervention
Negative: people may rush in to help haphazardly
What are the characteristics of an altruistic or therapeutic community? -
answer disappearance of community conflicts, heightened internal
solidarity, charity, sharing, communal public works, and positive attitude
when people travel to disaster scenes to provide unrequested assistance
or to gawk at survivors - answer trauma tourism
Crisis is the perception or experiencing of an event or situation as an
intolerable difficulty that exceeds the person's current resources and
coping mechanisms - answer individual crisis
