Crisis Intervention Strategies Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025
Mobility - Answers A state of physical being in which the person can autonomously change or cope in
response to different moods, feelings, emotions, needs, conditions, influences; being flexible or
adaptable to the physical and social world.
Immobility - Answers A state of physical in which the person is not immediately capable of
autonomously changing or coping in response to different moods, feelings, emotions, needs, conditions,
influences; inability to adapt to the immediate physical and social world.
Task 1: Predispositioning/Engaging/Initiating Contact
Task 2: Problem Exploration: Defining the crisis
Task 3: Providing Support
Task 4: Examining Alternatives
Task 5: Planning in order to reestablish control
Task 6: Obtaining Commitment
Task 7: Follow up - Answers Hybrid Model of Crisis Intervention (7 tasks)
Affective State - how is the client responding?
Behavioral Functioning - facilitate positive actions to take
Cognitive State - how are the client's thinking patterns? - Answers ABCs of Assessing in Crisis
Intervention
Chronic, Long term or Transcrisis - Answers A long term pattern of recurring crisis
1. Duration of the crisis
2. Degree of emotional stamina or coping at the client's disposal at the moment
3. Ecosystem within which the client resides
4. Developmental stage of the client - Answers Assessing Client's Emotional Stability
Four major factors
Loss - Answers the cognition that something bad has occurred
1. Dramatic changes occur in the discharge of neurotransmitters, such as endorphins and in the central
and peripheral sympathetic nervous systems and the hpothalamic-pituitary-adrenaocortical axis.
, 2. Abnormal changes in neurotransmitters such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin are
involved in mental disorders
3. Both legal and illegal drugs have a major effect on mental health. - Answers Psychobiological
Assessment
People involved in trauma can:
Triage Assessment Form (TAF) - Answers effective method of obtaining a real-time assessment of the
client's affective, behavioral, and cognitive statuses.
1.Freudian Inward Aggression
2. Developmental
3. Deficiencies
4. Escape
5. Hopelessness
6. Psychache - Answers Psychological Theories
Bereavement - Answers To leave desolate or alone especially by death.
Grief - Answers Mental suffering or distress over loss.
1. Bereavement
2. Grief
3. Loss
4. Mourning - Answers Stages of death (4)
1. Stabilize the client
2. Gather information
3. Address the immediate crisis
4. Provide immediate/practical relief
5. connect with social support
6. Address perception of event
7. Decrease in subjective distress
8. Increase in Functioning - Answers Psychological First Aid
Mobility - Answers A state of physical being in which the person can autonomously change or cope in
response to different moods, feelings, emotions, needs, conditions, influences; being flexible or
adaptable to the physical and social world.
Immobility - Answers A state of physical in which the person is not immediately capable of
autonomously changing or coping in response to different moods, feelings, emotions, needs, conditions,
influences; inability to adapt to the immediate physical and social world.
Task 1: Predispositioning/Engaging/Initiating Contact
Task 2: Problem Exploration: Defining the crisis
Task 3: Providing Support
Task 4: Examining Alternatives
Task 5: Planning in order to reestablish control
Task 6: Obtaining Commitment
Task 7: Follow up - Answers Hybrid Model of Crisis Intervention (7 tasks)
Affective State - how is the client responding?
Behavioral Functioning - facilitate positive actions to take
Cognitive State - how are the client's thinking patterns? - Answers ABCs of Assessing in Crisis
Intervention
Chronic, Long term or Transcrisis - Answers A long term pattern of recurring crisis
1. Duration of the crisis
2. Degree of emotional stamina or coping at the client's disposal at the moment
3. Ecosystem within which the client resides
4. Developmental stage of the client - Answers Assessing Client's Emotional Stability
Four major factors
Loss - Answers the cognition that something bad has occurred
1. Dramatic changes occur in the discharge of neurotransmitters, such as endorphins and in the central
and peripheral sympathetic nervous systems and the hpothalamic-pituitary-adrenaocortical axis.
, 2. Abnormal changes in neurotransmitters such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin are
involved in mental disorders
3. Both legal and illegal drugs have a major effect on mental health. - Answers Psychobiological
Assessment
People involved in trauma can:
Triage Assessment Form (TAF) - Answers effective method of obtaining a real-time assessment of the
client's affective, behavioral, and cognitive statuses.
1.Freudian Inward Aggression
2. Developmental
3. Deficiencies
4. Escape
5. Hopelessness
6. Psychache - Answers Psychological Theories
Bereavement - Answers To leave desolate or alone especially by death.
Grief - Answers Mental suffering or distress over loss.
1. Bereavement
2. Grief
3. Loss
4. Mourning - Answers Stages of death (4)
1. Stabilize the client
2. Gather information
3. Address the immediate crisis
4. Provide immediate/practical relief
5. connect with social support
6. Address perception of event
7. Decrease in subjective distress
8. Increase in Functioning - Answers Psychological First Aid
