Abusive and Addictive Behaviors

Question 1

6 Categories of Life Stressors

Answer 1

1. Relationship
2. Health Status
3. Career Status
4. Finances
5. Safety
6. Home Life Issues

Question 2

Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)

Answer 2

Control system for the fight or flight response.

Question 3

Sympathetic Nervous System

Answer 3

A component of the ANS, engages to provide the necessary functions for survival. Drops stress hormones (cortisol, norepinephrine) and alters glucose levels to prepare for survival.

Question 4

Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS)

Answer 4

Engages after perceived danger has passed to bring the ANS back into balance.

Question 5

When does someone perceive an event as a crisis?

Answer 5

When it is disruptive to their environment or functioning.

Question 6

What is another indicator of a crisis?

Answer 6

When an individual perceives a threat. It may not be of a violent nature - it could be loss of a job, spouse, home, reputation, or status.

Question 7

Developmental Crises

Answer 7

One that occurs as a person experiences life, such as entering adolescence, getting married, etc.

Question 8

Disturbing Event Crises

Answer 8

A disturbing even tis something like an accident, divorce, death, crime, financial losses, natural disasters, or serious injuries.

Question 9

Stages of Crisis: Pre-crisis State

Answer 9

All events leading up to the crisis.

Question 10

Stages of Crisis: Impact

Answer 10

The distressing situation or event occurs.

Question 11

Stages of Crisis: Crisis

Answer 11

Accuse emotional reaction to the situation with 2 elements: period of confusion/disorganization, or a period when the individual tries alternatives (trial and error).

Question 12

Stages of Crisis: Resolution

Answer 12

End of the event, the individual works toward adjustment to the circumstances

Question 13

Stages of Crisis: Post-Crisis

Answer 13

The individual lives with whatever alterations in circumstances that occurred during the crisis.

Question 14

Active Elements of a crisis

Answer 14

Agitation, screaming and yelling, crying, rapid speech, nausea, vomiting, pacing, intense emotional reactions.

Question 15

Passive elements of a crisis

Answer 15

Raining, going into shock, inactivity, weak pulse, sweating, pale face, subdued emotional affect, dull eyes.

Question 16

Goals of Crisis Intervention

Answer 16

1. Stabilize the situation and protect from additional stressors.
2. Mobilize resources to assist the individual.
3. Restore the person to adaptive or pre-crisis level functioning.

Question 17

4-Step Crisis Intervention Model

Answer 17

1. Listen
2. Assessment
3. Tx plan
4. Termination

Question 18

Abuse and Neglect

Answer 18

Acts of commission or omission by a parent, guardian, or caretaker that results in physical, emotional or sexual abuse, exploitation, or imminent risk of serious harm.

Question 19

Neglect

Answer 19

An act of omission, or failure to act, on the part of a parent or guardian that results in substandard support of a child. Physical, emotional, or educational.

Question 20

Abuse

Answer 20

An act of commission against a child and falls into physical, sexual, or emotional abuse.

Question 21

Physical Abuse

Answer 21

Non-accidental injury committed against a child.

Question 22

Sexual Abuse

Answer 22

Any act of a sexual nature committed on or with a child or in the presence of a child for the purposes of sexual gratification.

Question 23

Emotional Abuse

Answer 23

Chronic or consistent acts or attitudes that interfere with the social or psychological development of a child, with behaviors such as rejection, withholding love, insults, and criticizing.

Question 24

Elderly Abuse

Answer 24

Act of omission or commission that results in harm to an elderly person or puts a helpless older individual at risk of significant harm.

Question 25

Behavioral Indications of Suicidal Intentions

Answer 25

Settling affairs, giving away possessions, feelings of insignificance, chronically depressed, verbal references to suicide, defined plan of suicide.

Question 26

What are the most lethal categories of suicide plan?

Answer 26

Gun, hanging, or crashing a car. Least lethal is cutting wrist or taking aspirin.

Question 27

Should you inform parents of suicidality if client is underage?

Answer 27

Inform parents immediately, whether risk is low or high.

Question 28

What should you ask when evaluating suicidality in a client?

Answer 28

“Are you suicidal?” “Do you want to die?” “Are you planning on killing yourself?”

Question 29

Two cases where a client may pose a threat to others

Answer 29

1. Verbally states they are a threat.
2. Violent in general and is physically capable of harming someone.

Question 30

Addictive Behavior

Answer 30

Any activity, substance, object, or behavior that has become a major focus of a person’s life to the exclusion of other activities or that has begun to harm the individual or others physically, mentally, or socially.