Seung-Hui Cho's video tape manifested which characteristic of Schneidman's typology of the classic suicidal person?
a. situational
b. relational
c. motivational
d. Cho manifested all of the characteristics.
Q. 2In an assisted suicide, someone else provides the means (lethal agent) but the person who is dying administers it. In euthanasia
a. the person who is dying provides both the means and the administration of the agent.
b. someone else does the administration.
c. the Hemlock Society provides the necessary support and expertise.
d. an attending physician provides the necessary support and expertise as legally sanctioned by the state.
Q. 3If a client is found to be seriously thinking of killing or gravely harming some specific other person who can be identified by the crisis worker, the worker is required to consider the duty to warn implications
a. as specifically indicated in the client's scores on the Triage Assessment Scale.
b. according to rules found in Schneidman's Serial Characteristics formulation.
c. as dictated by case law in the Tarasoff case.
d. because it is morally and ethically right to do so.
Q. 4An analysis of the Seung Hoi suicide/homicide videotape indicates that, immediately prior to his suicide,
a. he was experiencing helplessness, hopelessness, and abandonment
b. he was experiencing unendurable psychological pain and frustrated psychological needs.
c. he demonstrated constricted thinking in that he was apparently unable to engage in alternative thought patterns or optional behaviors and lived in logic tight compartments.
d. All of the above were indicated in Seung's suicide/homicide videotape.
Q. 5The suicidal/homicidal person who engages in an expressive act of harming self or others is
a. engaging in an act designed to reduce psychological pain.
b. expressing a specific behavioral tendency towards euthanasia.
c. demonstrating one or more of the common myths about client lethality.
d. manifesting acts that are characteristic of Shneidman's cognitive characteristics.
Q. 6In 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. 7A 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. 8Research 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.
Quick Reply
