Chapter 1 - Crisis Intervention Flashcards
True or False
The cognitive key refers to the emotions one deals with during a crisis.
False
Cognitive key refers to the meanings the client a scribes to the precipitating events, and is the key the counselor uses to unlock the door to understanding the nature of the client’s crisis.
True or False
A stressor that triggers a crisis is often referred to as a precipitating event.
True
True or False
There is no possible benefit when one goes through a crisis.
False
True or False
It is always best to stifle emotions during a crisis.
False
True or False
Some anxiety helps motivate people to work through a crisis.
True
True or False
Ego strength refers to how vain someone is.
False
Ego strength is the degree to which people can see reality clearly and meet their needs realistically.
True or False
A major goal of crisis intervention is to increase functioning.
True
True or False
Crisis intervention began during the HMO movement of the 1980s.
False
Crisis intervention began with the Wellesley project, created by Eric Lindemann after the coconut grove fire in the 1940s.
True or False
Non-professionals were used to provide crisis intervention at the Wellesley project.
True
True or False
Brief therapy is synonymous with crisis intervention.
False
Brief therapy focuses on changing longer standing behavior patterns rather than on only the current precipitating event.
True or False
Humanistic models have very little impact on the practice of crisis intervention.
False
True or False
Crisis intervention has long been considered an inferior form of treatment by County mental health centers.
False
The ABC model of crisis intervention
One way to structure a crisis intervention that includes (A) developing and maintaining contact or rapport, (B) Identifying the problem, and (C) Coping.
Definition of crisis
A state of this equilibrium that occurs after a precipitating event. The person is then unable to function in one or more areas of his or her life because customary coping mechanisms have failed.
The father of modern crisis intervention.
Gerald Caplan
