CRISIS INTERVENTION STRATEGIES UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Equilibrium Model of Crisis Intervention.
Answer: is most appropriately used when the person is out of
control and needs to be stabilized.
◉ Metastasizing Crisis.
Answer: occurs when a small, isolated incident is not contained and
begins to spread.
◉ Transcrisis State.
Answer: Unresolved issues from a previous traumatic event
resurface because of a current stressor
May last 6-8 weeks
◉ Transcrisis points.
Answer: occur frequently in transcrisis states within the therapeutic
intervention. Can be seen as benchmarks that are crucial to
progressive stages of positive therapeutic growth.
,◉ People are in a state of crisis when:.
Answer: 1. they face an obstacle to important life goals
(disorganization)
2. know no response to deal with a situation
3. immobilizes people and prevents them from consciously
controlling their lives
◉ Traumatic event causes crisis when:.
Answer: it is unpredictable and uncontrollable (there is an inability
to influence it by one's actions)
◉ Crisis (equilibrium, signs).
Answer: a loss of psychological equilibrium or a state of emotional
instability that includes elements of depression and anxiety which is
caused by an external event with which individuals are unable to
cope with at their usual level of ability
◉ Crisis definition.
Answer: an acute emotional upset arising from situational,
developmental, or sociocultural sources, and results in a temporary
inability to cope by means of one's usual problem-solving devices in
response to a stressor
, ◉ Behavioral emergencies.
Answer: occurs when a crisis escalates to the point that the situation
requires immediate intervention to avoid injury or death.
◉ Indirect behavioral emergencies.
Answer: occur when people make bad decisions and wind up placing
themselves in potentially lethal situations and are crises that happen
with no directed purpose or intentionality to do something harmful
to oneself or others
◉ Systemic crisis.
Answer: a traumatic event occurs that
people, institutions, communities, and ecologies are overwhelmed
and response systems are unable to effectively contain and control
the event in regard to both physical and psychological reactions to it.
◉ Basic Crisis Intervention Theory (Lindemann).
Answer: Behavioral responses to crises associated with grief are
normal, temporary, and amenable, to short-term intervention
techniques. Addresses affective, behavioral cognitive distortions due
to traumatic events
◉ Normal Grief Behaviors Include: (Lindemann).
Answer: 1. Preoccupation with the lost one
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Equilibrium Model of Crisis Intervention.
Answer: is most appropriately used when the person is out of
control and needs to be stabilized.
◉ Metastasizing Crisis.
Answer: occurs when a small, isolated incident is not contained and
begins to spread.
◉ Transcrisis State.
Answer: Unresolved issues from a previous traumatic event
resurface because of a current stressor
May last 6-8 weeks
◉ Transcrisis points.
Answer: occur frequently in transcrisis states within the therapeutic
intervention. Can be seen as benchmarks that are crucial to
progressive stages of positive therapeutic growth.
,◉ People are in a state of crisis when:.
Answer: 1. they face an obstacle to important life goals
(disorganization)
2. know no response to deal with a situation
3. immobilizes people and prevents them from consciously
controlling their lives
◉ Traumatic event causes crisis when:.
Answer: it is unpredictable and uncontrollable (there is an inability
to influence it by one's actions)
◉ Crisis (equilibrium, signs).
Answer: a loss of psychological equilibrium or a state of emotional
instability that includes elements of depression and anxiety which is
caused by an external event with which individuals are unable to
cope with at their usual level of ability
◉ Crisis definition.
Answer: an acute emotional upset arising from situational,
developmental, or sociocultural sources, and results in a temporary
inability to cope by means of one's usual problem-solving devices in
response to a stressor
, ◉ Behavioral emergencies.
Answer: occurs when a crisis escalates to the point that the situation
requires immediate intervention to avoid injury or death.
◉ Indirect behavioral emergencies.
Answer: occur when people make bad decisions and wind up placing
themselves in potentially lethal situations and are crises that happen
with no directed purpose or intentionality to do something harmful
to oneself or others
◉ Systemic crisis.
Answer: a traumatic event occurs that
people, institutions, communities, and ecologies are overwhelmed
and response systems are unable to effectively contain and control
the event in regard to both physical and psychological reactions to it.
◉ Basic Crisis Intervention Theory (Lindemann).
Answer: Behavioral responses to crises associated with grief are
normal, temporary, and amenable, to short-term intervention
techniques. Addresses affective, behavioral cognitive distortions due
to traumatic events
◉ Normal Grief Behaviors Include: (Lindemann).
Answer: 1. Preoccupation with the lost one
