Crisis Intervention & Emergency Services Flashcards
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When using the Stanley-Brown Safety Planning Intervention, what is the FIRST step completed with the client?
Answer: Recognizing personal warning signs of a suicidal crisis
The Stanley-Brown Safety Plan begins by identifying the client's personal warning signs so they can recognize early when a crisis is emerging.
A psychologist working in a hospital emergency department evaluates a client who is intoxicated. Regarding decisional capacity, the MOST accurate statement is:
Answer: Capacity must be assessed in the current moment regardless of substance use
Decisional capacity is a clinical, time-specific determination; the clinician must assess the client's current ability to understand, appreciate, reason, and communicate a choice.
Which crisis intervention approach emphasizes the ABC model: Achieving rapport, Boiling down the problem, and Coping with the problem?
Answer: Gilliland and James's ABC model
Gilliland and James described the ABC model as a practical framework for telephone and brief in-person crisis counseling.
A client discloses during a crisis call that they have a specific, detailed plan to harm their neighbor tomorrow. Under the Tarasoff duty, the psychologist must PRIMARILY:
Answer: Warn the identifiable potential victim and/or notify law enforcement
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California established the duty to protect identifiable third parties from serious, credible threats made by clients.
In disaster mental health response, 'psychological triage' is used to:
Answer: Identify individuals who need immediate versus delayed mental health support
Psychological triage rapidly identifies levels of distress to match survivors with the appropriate intensity of support during mass disaster response.
A crisis counselor notices that a caller becomes calm and resolute after weeks of expressing hopelessness. This shift should be interpreted as:
Answer: A potential warning sign indicating the client may have made a decision to act
A sudden calm or apparent resolution of distress in a suicidal client can signal that they have made a decision to attempt suicide, paradoxically reducing subjective distress.
Which of the following BEST describes the role of crisis intervention relative to ongoing psychotherapy?
Answer: Crisis intervention stabilizes acute distress and bridges clients to longer-term care
Crisis intervention is time-limited and focused on stabilization, restoring equilibrium, and connecting clients to follow-up services rather than conducting in-depth therapeutic work.