Follow-up is an important task because
a. clients may have little or no support system.
b. success in maintaining precrisis equilibrium is critical.
c. keeping track of the client's long term needs and re-establishing broken relationships is important in moving beyond the crisis and putting it in the past.
d. both a and b.
Q. 2While assisting a client to examine alternatives, the crisis worker is advised to
a. ensure that the alternatives chosen are ones that the client can truly own and are realistic right here and right now.
b. to accept the fact that clients may not be able to come up with alternatives and allow clients to suffer the natural and logical consequences of their actions.
c. try to get the client to accept worker generated alternatives even if the client is resistant.
d. adhere to all three of the above.
Q. 3The psychobiology of humans in crisis is important because
a. dramatic changes often occur in neurotransmitters when crises occur.
b. abnormal changes in neurotransmitters are involved in mental illnesses.
c. legal and illegal drugs have a major effect on mental health and the crises that may ensue from their use.
d. All of the aboveall of the above are important psychobiological factors in crisis intervention.
Q. 4Assessment of cognitive processes in crisis intervention typically involves determining
a. how hot or irrational cognitions are.
b. whether there is a perception of transgression, threat, or loss.
c. perception of others' needs
d. all of the above.
Q. 5Of the following neurological factors that may contribute to the severity of a crisis, which is not true?
a. Neurotransmitter discharge during a crisis, while dramatic, is always of intense, short duration.
b. Long-term, chronic changes in neurotransmitters have been linked to mental illness.
c. One's gene pool may have something to do with catch rates
d. A client forgetting to take psychotropic drugs to control mental illness.
Q. 6In the planning phase of crisis intervention, collaboration as opposed to directive stances with clients is important because of the central issues of clients feeling a sense of
a. control and autonomy.
b. long-term self-actualization.
c. existential completeness.
d. cognitive and affective adequacy.
Q. 7Above all else, the worker's therapeutic style, choices, and strategy must reflect continuous consideration for the client's
a. safety.
b. ego integrity.
c. personhood.
d. cultural identity.
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