Later in their lives, adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse do not usually experience victimization
a. on the conscious level.
b. because of their beliefs derived in large part from social myths.
c. because of their feelings of blame and guilt.
d. due to the fear that the victimizer may reappear and revictimize the victim.
Q. 2Residual effects of sexual assault may have characteristics of
a. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
b. an unresolved Electra or Oedipal complex.
c. hysterical conversion neurosis.
d. love addiction.
Q. 3The crisis worker who deals with Deborah, the chronic, suicidal, bridge jumper uses
a. flooding to blow away her catastrophic all-or- none thinking.
b. dynamic interpretation of past events to ferret out the underlying reasons.
c. rewards alternative to suicidal behavior and minimizes short term reinforcements for it.
d. All of the above are used in an eclectic manner with this complex case.
Q. 4Sometimes crisis workers are devastated and vulnerable to permanent emotional wounds whenever they wrongly believe that they could have or should have prevented a suicide or homicide. The procedures that appropriately counters the guilt, grief, and loss and help crisis workers begin to heal and return to their own previous level of equilibrium and normalcy are
a. getting close supervision in future cases like it from a trusted other professional.
b. conducting a debriefing or psychological autopsy.
c. reminiscing about the person and event with the client's friends and family.
d. using cognitive restructuring to normalize the event.
Q. 5The impact of having failed to save a person who was a client or victim of the client's can be overwhelming and can cause the crisis worker to experience what is called
a. vicarious traumatization.
Q. 6Considering the myth that when a person has attempted suicide and pulls out of it the danger is over, a crisis worker should remember that if such a client seemed unusually serene and nonlethal toward self,
a. an important danger signal for that client would be a period of euphoria following the depressed or suicidal episode.
b. then, in case the client committed suicide, it would definitely be an impulsive act.
c. then, the crisis worker would probably have misinterpreted the client's score on The Triage Assessment Scale.
d. All three of the foregoing statements are valid.
Q. 7One of the most effective means of worldwide suicide prevention appears to be
a. getting crisis workers to use the Triage Assessment Form regularly and correctly.
Q. 8Durkheim called a suicide type in which the person felt estranged and alienated from society a ________ suicide.
a. egoistic
b. mental deficiency
c. kari-kari
d. chaos
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