Crisis Intervention and Trauma Counseling Flashcards
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Roberts' Seven-Stage Crisis Intervention Model begins with which stage?
Answer: Assess lethality and safety needs
Roberts' model begins with assessing lethality and safety needs to determine the immediacy of danger before proceeding with other intervention steps.
In the ABC Model of Crisis Intervention, the letters stand for:
Answer: Affect, Behavior, Cognition
The ABC Model addresses Affect (emotional state), Behavior (actions and functioning), and Cognition (thoughts and beliefs) to guide crisis intervention.
Psychological First Aid (PFA) is primarily designed to:
Answer: Reduce initial distress and foster short-term and long-term adaptive functioning after a crisis
PFA is an evidence-informed approach aimed at reducing distress and supporting adaptive coping in the immediate aftermath of disasters or traumatic events.
A comprehensive lethality assessment for suicidal clients evaluates plan, means access, and:
Answer: Intent, plan specificity, and means access
Lethality assessment examines intent (desire to die), the specificity of the plan, and the client's access to lethal means to gauge imminent risk.
Caplan's crisis theory suggests that individuals experience crisis when:
Answer: Their usual coping mechanisms are insufficient to manage a stressor
Caplan proposed that crisis occurs when a person's habitual problem-solving methods fail to restore equilibrium in the face of a hazardous event.
The primary goal of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) is to:
Answer: Process the emotional and cognitive impact of a traumatic event to facilitate recovery
CISD is a structured group process designed to help individuals process traumatic experiences and reduce the psychological impact after a critical incident.