TCOLE BASIC JAILER EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Poor Public Image/Poor Pay - ✔✔Two significant sources of stress for some officers
that may originate outside the jail.
✔✔Mental Health - ✔✔a person's mental health condition with regard to their
psychological and emotional well-being
✔✔Mood Disorder - ✔✔a psychological disorder characterized by the elevation or
lowering of a person's mood, such as depression or bipolar disorder
✔✔Depression/Bipolar - ✔✔What are the two most common mokd disorders
encountered by jailers?
✔✔6.6% - ✔✔What percentage of adults aged 18 or older had a major depressive
episode in 2014?
✔✔Schizophrenia - ✔✔a brain disorder that impacts the way a person thinks (often
described as a "thought disorder"), and characterized by a range or cognitive,
behavioral. and emotional experiences that can include: delusions, hallucinations,
disorganized thinking, and grossly disorganized or abnormal motor behavior
✔✔Dementia - ✔✔an umbrella term used to describe a decline in memory or brain
function that impacts an individual's daily life; ie Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Humtington's
✔✔Anxiety Disorders - ✔✔a group of mental disturbances characterized by anxiety as a
central core symptom
✔✔Crisis - ✔✔a situation in which the individual presents an immediate danger to self
or others, the individual's mental or physical health is at risk of serious deterioration or
, an individual believes that he/she presents an immediate danger to self or others, or
that his/her mental/physical health is at risk of serious deterioration
✔✔Quickly & Accurately - ✔✔By building trust and rapport you may obtain information
how?
✔✔Sensitivity - ✔✔What comes from your understanding and commitment to staying
with the person until a crisis is resolved?
✔✔Clarification - ✔✔it is important to remember that ____________ of a statement may
be necessary if not understood and nothing should ever be left assumed
✔✔Non Confrontational - ✔✔The difference between traditional inmate encounters and
an encounter with an inmate who has a mental illness is the need to be what?
✔✔Direct/Indirect Statements - ✔✔How do most people who commit suicide indicate
their suicidal ideations?
✔✔Risk Factors - ✔✔Isolation from family, severe guilt/shame over the offense,
excessive drinking, recent loss, and current mental illness are all potentially what?
✔✔First 24 hours - ✔✔When is the highest risk for suicide in a jail setting?
✔✔True - ✔✔True/False
Most suicides can be prevented.
✔✔False - ✔✔True/False
On an inmate found hanging the inmate should be cut down immediately, cutting the
knot.
✔✔True - ✔✔True/False
Suicides most frequently in private spaces such as bathrooms, showers, mop closets,
and cells.
✔✔False - ✔✔True/False
Place at-risk inmates in lower visibility cells.
✔✔Two (2) - ✔✔What is the minimum number of jailers needed to enter a cell?
✔✔The Sheriff - ✔✔Who places a prisoner who is committed to jail by a warrant from a
magistrate or court in jail?
✔✔Convict/Resident Witness - ✔✔What are the two types of attachment?
AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Poor Public Image/Poor Pay - ✔✔Two significant sources of stress for some officers
that may originate outside the jail.
✔✔Mental Health - ✔✔a person's mental health condition with regard to their
psychological and emotional well-being
✔✔Mood Disorder - ✔✔a psychological disorder characterized by the elevation or
lowering of a person's mood, such as depression or bipolar disorder
✔✔Depression/Bipolar - ✔✔What are the two most common mokd disorders
encountered by jailers?
✔✔6.6% - ✔✔What percentage of adults aged 18 or older had a major depressive
episode in 2014?
✔✔Schizophrenia - ✔✔a brain disorder that impacts the way a person thinks (often
described as a "thought disorder"), and characterized by a range or cognitive,
behavioral. and emotional experiences that can include: delusions, hallucinations,
disorganized thinking, and grossly disorganized or abnormal motor behavior
✔✔Dementia - ✔✔an umbrella term used to describe a decline in memory or brain
function that impacts an individual's daily life; ie Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Humtington's
✔✔Anxiety Disorders - ✔✔a group of mental disturbances characterized by anxiety as a
central core symptom
✔✔Crisis - ✔✔a situation in which the individual presents an immediate danger to self
or others, the individual's mental or physical health is at risk of serious deterioration or
, an individual believes that he/she presents an immediate danger to self or others, or
that his/her mental/physical health is at risk of serious deterioration
✔✔Quickly & Accurately - ✔✔By building trust and rapport you may obtain information
how?
✔✔Sensitivity - ✔✔What comes from your understanding and commitment to staying
with the person until a crisis is resolved?
✔✔Clarification - ✔✔it is important to remember that ____________ of a statement may
be necessary if not understood and nothing should ever be left assumed
✔✔Non Confrontational - ✔✔The difference between traditional inmate encounters and
an encounter with an inmate who has a mental illness is the need to be what?
✔✔Direct/Indirect Statements - ✔✔How do most people who commit suicide indicate
their suicidal ideations?
✔✔Risk Factors - ✔✔Isolation from family, severe guilt/shame over the offense,
excessive drinking, recent loss, and current mental illness are all potentially what?
✔✔First 24 hours - ✔✔When is the highest risk for suicide in a jail setting?
✔✔True - ✔✔True/False
Most suicides can be prevented.
✔✔False - ✔✔True/False
On an inmate found hanging the inmate should be cut down immediately, cutting the
knot.
✔✔True - ✔✔True/False
Suicides most frequently in private spaces such as bathrooms, showers, mop closets,
and cells.
✔✔False - ✔✔True/False
Place at-risk inmates in lower visibility cells.
✔✔Two (2) - ✔✔What is the minimum number of jailers needed to enter a cell?
✔✔The Sheriff - ✔✔Who places a prisoner who is committed to jail by a warrant from a
magistrate or court in jail?
✔✔Convict/Resident Witness - ✔✔What are the two types of attachment?
