Abusive and Addictive Behaviors Flashcards
6 Categories of Life Stressors
- Relationship
- Health Status
- Career Status
- Finances
- Safety
- Home Life Issues
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Control system for the fight or flight response.
Sympathetic Nervous System
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.
Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS)
Engages after perceived danger has passed to bring the ANS back into balance.
When does someone perceive an event as a crisis?
When it is disruptive to their environment or functioning.
What is another indicator of a crisis?
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.
Developmental Crises
One that occurs as a person experiences life, such as entering adolescence, getting married, etc.
Disturbing Event Crises
A disturbing even tis something like an accident, divorce, death, crime, financial losses, natural disasters, or serious injuries.
Stages of Crisis: Pre-crisis State
All events leading up to the crisis.
Stages of Crisis: Impact
The distressing situation or event occurs.
Stages of Crisis: Crisis
Accuse emotional reaction to the situation with 2 elements: period of confusion/disorganization, or a period when the individual tries alternatives (trial and error).
Stages of Crisis: Resolution
End of the event, the individual works toward adjustment to the circumstances
Stages of Crisis: Post-Crisis
The individual lives with whatever alterations in circumstances that occurred during the crisis.
Active Elements of a crisis
Agitation, screaming and yelling, crying, rapid speech, nausea, vomiting, pacing, intense emotional reactions.
Passive elements of a crisis
Raining, going into shock, inactivity, weak pulse, sweating, pale face, subdued emotional affect, dull eyes.
Goals of Crisis Intervention
- Stabilize the situation and protect from additional stressors.
- Mobilize resources to assist the individual.
- Restore the person to adaptive or pre-crisis level functioning.
4-Step Crisis Intervention Model
- Listen
- Assessment
- Tx plan
- Termination
Abuse and Neglect
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.
Neglect
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.
Abuse
An act of commission against a child and falls into physical, sexual, or emotional abuse.
Physical Abuse
Non-accidental injury committed against a child.
Sexual Abuse
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.
Emotional Abuse
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.
Elderly Abuse
Act of omission or commission that results in harm to an elderly person or puts a helpless older individual at risk of significant harm.
Behavioral Indications of Suicidal Intentions
Settling affairs, giving away possessions, feelings of insignificance, chronically depressed, verbal references to suicide, defined plan of suicide.
What are the most lethal categories of suicide plan?
Gun, hanging, or crashing a car. Least lethal is cutting wrist or taking aspirin.
Should you inform parents of suicidality if client is underage?
Inform parents immediately, whether risk is low or high.
What should you ask when evaluating suicidality in a client?
“Are you suicidal?” “Do you want to die?” “Are you planning on killing yourself?”
Two cases where a client may pose a threat to others
- Verbally states they are a threat.
- Violent in general and is physically capable of harming someone.
Addictive Behavior
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.
