Crisis Intervention & Grief Support Flashcards
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When a crisis intervention call involves a person who is acutely suicidal, the chaplain's FIRST priority is to:
Answer: Ensure the person's immediate physical safety and connect them to emergency services
Safety is always the first priority in suicidal crisis; the chaplain must ensure emergency services are engaged before other interventions.
Which of the following is an example of 'disenfranchised grief'?
Answer: A man grieving the death of his longtime partner in a relationship his family did not acknowledge
Disenfranchised grief occurs when a loss is not publicly recognized or validated, leaving the griever without social support.
Psychological First Aid (PFA) is best described as:
Answer: A structured evidence-informed approach to support survivors' safety, calm, and connection
PFA is an evidence-informed modular approach designed to reduce initial distress and support adaptive functioning, not to diagnose or treat disorders.
A bereaved person says, 'Everyone keeps telling me I should be over this by now.' The chaplain BEST responds by:
Answer: Validating that grief has no set timeline and each person's process is unique
Grief timelines are highly individual, and chaplains counter harmful social pressure by affirming that there is no 'correct' schedule for mourning.
In the context of crisis intervention, 'lethality assessment' primarily evaluates:
Answer: The risk that a person may harm themselves or others
Lethality assessment determines the degree of risk for self-harm or violence by evaluating plan, means, intent, and history.
A chaplain notices that a bereaved parent is isolating, not eating, and expressing hopelessness six months after the death of their child. The APPROPRIATE action is to:
Answer: Assess for depression and complicated grief, and refer to a mental health professional
These signs indicate possible complicated grief or major depression, requiring mental health referral beyond the scope of chaplaincy alone.
The term 'secondary traumatic stress' (STS) in chaplaincy refers to:
Answer: Trauma symptoms that develop in caregivers through exposure to others' traumatic experiences
STS, also called vicarious trauma or compassion fatigue, results from absorbing the traumatic experiences of those a chaplain serves.