Crisis Exam
A crisis that escalates to the point that the situation requires immediate intervention to
avoid injury or death is known as what? - ANS-A behavioral emergency
In what way is a crisis idiosyncratic? - ANS-What one person may overcome, another
may not, even if the circumstances are the same. Crises are different to everyone.
What are the 3 major movements that helped shape crisis interventions into an
emergency specialty? - ANS-Alcoholics Anonymous, Vietnam Veterans, and the
women's movement of the 1970s.
What has generated the most profound change in public consciousness of what it
means to be in crisis after a large-scale disaster? - ANS-The media's role in creating
awareness of crises.
What is a crisis? - ANS-The perception or experiencing of an event or situation as an
intolerable difficulty that exceeds the person's current resources and coping
mechanisms.
What are three major areas in an individual that can malfunction during and after a
crisis? - ANS-Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive.
What is a behavioral emergency? - ANS-A crisis that escalates to the point that the
situation requires immediate intervention to avoid injury or death.
What are two types of behavioral emergencies? - ANS-Indirect/Noncommissioned &
Direct/Intentional.
What is an Indirect/Noncommissioned behavioral emergency? - ANS-Crises that
happen with no directed purpose or intentionality to do something harmful to oneself or
others. (Drunk Driving, project construction, etc.)
What is a Direct/Intentional behavioral emergency? - ANS-General categories of
engaging in self-injurious behavior, perpetrating violent behavior, and being a victim of
violence. Suicide/Homicides after broken romances is a good example of this.
What is a systemic Crisis? - ANS-When a traumatic event occurs such that people,
institutions, communities and ecologies are overwhelmed and responses systems are
, unable to effectively contain and control the event in regard to both physical and
psychological reactions to it.
What is a metastasizing crisis? - ANS-When a small, isolated incident is not contained
and begins to spread.
What are three ways people can react to a crisis? - ANS-1. Cope effectively and
develop strength.
2. Survive but block the hurtful affect from awareness to have it haunt them in many
ways through the rest of their lives.
3. Break down psychologically at the onset of the crisis and show they are incapable of
going any further in their lives w/o assistance.
What are the different levels that can be affected by a crisis? - ANS-Families,
individuals, partners, institutions, employees, neighborhoods, community, and
geographical region or country.
What is a transcrisis state? - ANS-When an individual thinks the problem has resolves,
but new stressors may bring the individual to the crisis state again. This may happen
frequently and for extended periods of time, ranging from months to years.
What are transcrisis points? - ANS-Generally marked by the client's coming to grips with
new developmental stages or other dimensions of the problem. They do not occur in
regular, predictable, linear progression. They can be seen as benchmarks that are
crucial to progressive stages of positive therapeutic growth. They are
approach/avoidance behavior in seeking help taking risks, and initiating action steps
towards forward movement.
What is the differences between basic crisis theory and brief therapy? - ANS-Brief
therapy typically attempts to remediate more or less ongoing emotional problems; basic
crisis theory focuses on helping people in crisis recognize and correct temporary
affective, behavioral, and cognitive distortions brought on by traumatic events.
What is a developmental crisis? - ANS-Events in the normal flow of human growth and
evolution whereby a dramatic change or shift occurs that produces abnormal
responses. Usually considered normal, but all people are unique. (Births, retirement,
graduation, etc.)
A crisis that escalates to the point that the situation requires immediate intervention to
avoid injury or death is known as what? - ANS-A behavioral emergency
In what way is a crisis idiosyncratic? - ANS-What one person may overcome, another
may not, even if the circumstances are the same. Crises are different to everyone.
What are the 3 major movements that helped shape crisis interventions into an
emergency specialty? - ANS-Alcoholics Anonymous, Vietnam Veterans, and the
women's movement of the 1970s.
What has generated the most profound change in public consciousness of what it
means to be in crisis after a large-scale disaster? - ANS-The media's role in creating
awareness of crises.
What is a crisis? - ANS-The perception or experiencing of an event or situation as an
intolerable difficulty that exceeds the person's current resources and coping
mechanisms.
What are three major areas in an individual that can malfunction during and after a
crisis? - ANS-Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive.
What is a behavioral emergency? - ANS-A crisis that escalates to the point that the
situation requires immediate intervention to avoid injury or death.
What are two types of behavioral emergencies? - ANS-Indirect/Noncommissioned &
Direct/Intentional.
What is an Indirect/Noncommissioned behavioral emergency? - ANS-Crises that
happen with no directed purpose or intentionality to do something harmful to oneself or
others. (Drunk Driving, project construction, etc.)
What is a Direct/Intentional behavioral emergency? - ANS-General categories of
engaging in self-injurious behavior, perpetrating violent behavior, and being a victim of
violence. Suicide/Homicides after broken romances is a good example of this.
What is a systemic Crisis? - ANS-When a traumatic event occurs such that people,
institutions, communities and ecologies are overwhelmed and responses systems are
, unable to effectively contain and control the event in regard to both physical and
psychological reactions to it.
What is a metastasizing crisis? - ANS-When a small, isolated incident is not contained
and begins to spread.
What are three ways people can react to a crisis? - ANS-1. Cope effectively and
develop strength.
2. Survive but block the hurtful affect from awareness to have it haunt them in many
ways through the rest of their lives.
3. Break down psychologically at the onset of the crisis and show they are incapable of
going any further in their lives w/o assistance.
What are the different levels that can be affected by a crisis? - ANS-Families,
individuals, partners, institutions, employees, neighborhoods, community, and
geographical region or country.
What is a transcrisis state? - ANS-When an individual thinks the problem has resolves,
but new stressors may bring the individual to the crisis state again. This may happen
frequently and for extended periods of time, ranging from months to years.
What are transcrisis points? - ANS-Generally marked by the client's coming to grips with
new developmental stages or other dimensions of the problem. They do not occur in
regular, predictable, linear progression. They can be seen as benchmarks that are
crucial to progressive stages of positive therapeutic growth. They are
approach/avoidance behavior in seeking help taking risks, and initiating action steps
towards forward movement.
What is the differences between basic crisis theory and brief therapy? - ANS-Brief
therapy typically attempts to remediate more or less ongoing emotional problems; basic
crisis theory focuses on helping people in crisis recognize and correct temporary
affective, behavioral, and cognitive distortions brought on by traumatic events.
What is a developmental crisis? - ANS-Events in the normal flow of human growth and
evolution whereby a dramatic change or shift occurs that produces abnormal
responses. Usually considered normal, but all people are unique. (Births, retirement,
graduation, etc.)
