In crisis intervention, the possibility of dealing with suicidal or homicidal clients is:
A) really pretty rare.
B) ever present.
C) specific to certain groups.
D) dependent on the interventionist.
Q. 2The birth of disaster mental health delivery systems can be traced to 9/11.
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Q. 3A postvention method of helping people to either gain a better understanding of why a suicide happened or to feel less guilt and responsibility for the deceased's death is:
A) debunking the myths about suicide.
B) assessing for survivor lethality via the Triage Assessment Form.
C) establishing a crisis response team.
D) the psychological autopsy.
Q. 4The decision stage in a LEMA plan is the point in time in which the decision is of whether to declare an emergency is made.
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Q. 5Research indicates that suicide attempts that succeed:
A) increase with the age of the person.
B) decrease with the age of the person.
C) are not correlated with age.
D) are correlated more by race than age.
Q. 6As strange as it may seems, LEMAs may devote a lot of attention to animals following a disaster.
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Q. 7The Reasons for Living Scale is different than other lethality scales in that:
A) it focuses only on homicidal ideation.
B) it poses questions about why people would not kill themselves.
C) it is a faster visual assessment form than the Triage scale.
D) it is a highly reliable predictor of the who, when, where, how, and why of lethal behavior.
Q. 8Professional organizations such as the National Association of School Psychologists' NEAT Teams deal mainly with school disasters such as Columbine.
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