Chapter 9, exam 2 Flashcards
Crisis intervention
A sudden event in one’s life, during which usual coping mechanisms cannot solve the problem is known as what?
A Crisis
What are 5 characteristics of a crisis?
-Happens to everyone
-Acute
-Personal
-It has a specific, identifiable event
-It can result in growth or deterioration
When a person’s anxiety levels are increased, and they resort to using previous coping skills to aid in their anxiety management, what phase of crisis development are they in?
1st phase
Confusion, hopelessness, and feelings of being disorganized because of the failing of previously effective coping mechanisms is what phase of crisis development?
2nd phase
Looking through different perspectives, both internal and external, and asking for outside help to solve a problem is what phase of crisis development?
3rd phase.
Anxiety can reach panic levels, erratic behavior and lead to psychotic breakdown, or stress can be resolved and result in personal growth. What phase is this?
4th phase
What subjective factor plays in to whether or not an event is stressful, or a crisis?
Your perception of an event plays into whether or not the situation is stressful, or a crisis.
If a patient has a more realistic view of a crisis, the better the chances of what?
Restoring order
A person’s perception of a crisis can be positively influenced by what 2 factors?
-Their availability of support
-Their coping mechanisms
Which type of crisis is an acute response to an external stressor?
a.) Dispositional crisis
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology
f.) Psychiatric emergencies
a.) A Dispositional crisis is an acute response to an external stressor.
What is a dispositional crisis?
An acute response to an external stressor
Ethan gets yelled at by his boss at work for the 4th day in a row. When Ethan returns home, he is confronted by his wife for not taking out the garbage again like she asked. Ethan explodes in a rage and begins throwing dishes and furniture against the wall while screaming at his wife. Ethan is experiencing what kind of crisis?
a.) Dispositional crisis
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology
f.) Psychiatric emergency
a.) Dispositional crisis
An acute response to an outside stressor
Normal life-cycle transitions that you know are coming, but nonetheless, you feel a lack of control.
This is known as what type of crisis?
a.) Dispositional crisis
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology
f.) Psychiatric emergencies
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions.
A crisis involving a stressor that someone has absolutely no control over and results in feeling emotionally overwhelmed and defeated is what type of crisis?
a.) Dispositional crisis
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology
f.) Psychiatric emergencies
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
Eva is a server who, two weeks ago, was abducted by two men with guns, and beaten and robbed in an abandoned parking garage. She survived and has healed from her injuries. However, Eva cannot be left alone, she is constantly in fear, and relives the events in her dreams. Eva cannot eat or sleep and quits her job as a server. Eva is undergoing what type of crisis?
a.) Dispositional crisis
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology
f.) Psychiatric emergencies
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress.
Crisis resulting from failure to develop a task associated with life-cycle transitions is known as what?
a.) Dispositional crisis
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology
f.) Psychiatric emergencies
d.) Maturational/Developmental crisis
Kelly is a new, single mother at 18 years old. Kelly has her child just 3 days ago but already feels overwhelmed at the task of motherhood at her age. Kelly frantically considers giving her baby away to a foster family, screaming that she doesn’t know what to do, and that she is just a kid. Kelly is experiencing what kind of crisis?
a.) Dispositional crisis
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology
f.) Psychiatric emergencies
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
Maggie, a woman with BPD, threatens suicide when her therapist tells her that he is moving away, and will no longer be her therapist. This is an example of what type of crisis?
a.) Dispositional crisis
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology
f.) Psychiatric emergencies
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology.
Because the patient has a psychopathy disorder; Resulting from mental illness.
A crisis where an individual’s functioning has been impaired, and they may not be able to take personal responsibility for their actions is known as what?
a.) Dispositional crisis
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology
f.) Psychiatric emergencies
f.) Psychiatric emergency
Garry has taken large amounts of fentanyl. He is experiencing hallucinations, and has developed acute psychosis, and uncontrollable anger. Garry is experiencing what type of crisis?
a.) Dispositional crisis
b.) Crisis of anticipated life transitions
c.) Crisis resulting from traumatic stress
d.) Maturational/developmental crisis
e.) Crisis reflecting psychopathology
f.) Psychiatric emergencies
f.) Psychiatric emergency
What should patients never be allowed to do in the middle of a crisis?
Make big decisions.
