PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
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1. equilibrium - ANSWER state of mental or emotional stability, balance, or poise in
the organism
2. disequilibrium - ANSWER lack of destruction of emotional stability, balance, or
poise in the organism
3. Perpetual crises for families are the same as metastasizing crises - ANSWER false
4. Follow-up can happen at any time in crisis intervention. - ANSWER true
5. When listening to families talk about a crisis you should: - ANSWER be patient
6. An example of procedural rules for families is - ANSWER no use of electronic
devises during meals.
7. When a crisis occurs, the person in the family who generally cooks meals may
change. - ANSWER true
,8. From a Piagetian standpoint, the preoperational child's egocentric view of death may
be: - ANSWER laced with magical thinking and fantasy with no clear view of
death's finality
9. The Kubler-Ross model of loss is probably the most well known and most useful
model of understanding loss in the present day. - ANSWER true
10. primary loss - ANSWER such as the death of a friend, child, parent, or spouse,
may require several years, and the traumatic event may have a profoundly lasting
effect on the remainder of one's life
11. Regardless of the age of parents or children, the death of a child is always a major loss
that is affected by: - ANSWER the child's age, suddenness of death, circumstances
of death, and the family situation.
12. traumatic grief - ANSWER is generally subsumed under complicated or prolonged
grief, with the additional requirement that the person witnessed or was in close
proximity to the violent, sudden, unexpected, horrifying death of a loved one
13. disenfranchised grief - ANSWER is generally subsumed under complicated or
prolonged grief, with the additional requirement that the person witnessed or was in
close proximity to the violent, sudden, unexpected, horrifying death of a loved one
14. A married person has an affair and then the other person dies, married person can not
open up about grief
15. Bereavement overload is real and can be extremely detrimental to workers -
ANSWER true
16. type on ambiguous loss - ANSWER person physically absent but psychologically
present:
, ex: missing person
17. type 2 ambiguous loss - ANSWER person physically present but psychologically
not
ex: dementia
18. Grief in the elderly: - ANSWER may be more prolonged than with younger
people.
19. The Dual process model involves: - ANSWER movement at one's own pace
between a loss orientation and a restoration orientation.
20. About the best one can hope for after a hard loss is, in time to get back to some
semblance of equilibrium and homeostasis. - ANSWER false
21. The Adaptive model of grieving is about how a survivor copes with loss. -
ANSWER false
22. Reformulating loss in a context of growth in the grieving process means: -
ANSWER emerging from the crisis with greater strength.
23. In prolonged grief and mourning the person both denies or represses the loss and will
not give up the lost loved one. - ANSWER true
24. Which of the following is not found in complicated grief and mourning? -
ANSWER Reformulation of loss in a context of growth
25. Loss through separation and divorce may feature all of these, except: - ANSWER
a sense of calm and relief for children.
, 26. When using the dual process model you should: - ANSWER not push clients
toward resolution. Let the oscillation work.
27. The Texas Grief Inventory can determine the progress of grief resolution. -
ANSWER true
28. A basic, personal resource (as opposed to professional skill) of the human service
worker who deals with bereavement and loss is: - ANSWER coming to grips with
one's own issues about death.
29. AIDS may be defined as a disease of crisis events. - ANSWER true
30. The Kubler-Ross model proposes that individuals go through common stages as they
experience a loss. - ANSWER true
31. Complicated grief occurs because there are very few clues to identify it. -
ANSWER true
32. The death of a spouse, although traumatic has no effect on the surviving spouse's
mortality rate. - ANSWER false
33. An appropriate example of providing immediate, short-term, and brief crisis
intervention with the bereaved following a sudden death would be: - ANSWER
providing referral sources to make arrangements for the funeral, and information
about autopsy and donor rights.
34. Restoration orientation occurs when grievers experience full blown emotional
catharsis. - ANSWER false