Crisis Intervention Test 1 Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) What are Caplan's seven characteristics of effective coping people?Discussion - Correct Answers ✅1. Actively exploring reality issues and searching for information 2.Freely expressing both positive and negative feelings and tolerating frustration 3. Actively invoking help from others 4.Breaking problems into manageable bits and working through them one at a time 5. Being aware of fatigue and pacing coping efforts while maintaining control in as many areas of functioning as possible 6. Mastering feelings where possible; being flexible and willing to change 7. Trusting in oneself and others and having a basic optimism about the outcome What is meant by anxiety being curvilinear in nature?Discussion - Correct Answers ✅Model showing that anxiety has the potential to be either a positive or a negative influence for someone in crisis. Too much anxiety may overwhelm the person and lead to lowered functioning.However, moderate anxiety may offer an opportunity for growth and transition from one stage of life to another or may motivate the person to grow from the experience of trauma.People who have no anxiety tend not to be motivated to make any changes at all.How did the introduction of psychotropic medication and the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill influence current crisis intervention and the provision of mental health services? Discussion - Correct Answers ✅With the introduction and widespread use of psychiatric medications such as Thorazine and Lithium in the 1950s patients who suffered mental illness could be managed in the community 1 / 3
Crisis Intervention Test 1 Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) which fostered deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill over the ensuing two decades.
ABC Model of Crisis Intervention: - Correct Answers ✅One
way to structure crisis intervention that includes (A) developing and maintaining contact, (B) identifying the problem, and (C) coping
behavioral problem-solving model: - Correct Answers
✅Approach focusing on goal setting, problem solving, and brainstorming alternatives.
brief therapy: - Correct Answers ✅May be confused with
crisis intervention, but focuses on changing longer-standing behavior patterns rather than on only the current precipitating event.
Caplan, Gerald: - Correct Answers ✅Known as the father of
modern crisis intervention. Worked with Eric Lindemann on the Wellesley Project after the Coconut Grove fire
Caplan's Seven Characteristics of Effective Coping Behavior: -
Correct Answers ✅Behaviors proposed by Gerald Caplan (1964) as essential for getting through a crisis state. They can be learned through formal crisis intervention, through experience, or while growing up. In any case, the crisis 2 / 3
Crisis Intervention Test 1 Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) worker needs to acknowledge these characteristics and to transmit them to clients when possible.
Coconut Grove fire: - Correct Answers ✅Nightclub fire in
1942 in which over 400 people died, leaving many survivors in crisis; considered one of the major events leading to the development of crisis intervention as a form of mental health treatment.
cognitive approaches: - Correct Answers ✅Approaches
focusing on a person's perceptions and thinking processes and how these lead to crisis states.
cognitive key: - Correct Answers ✅The perception a person
has of the precipitating events that led to emotional distress.The crisis worker must identify the perception if he or she is to help the client change it and thereby increase functioning.
Community Mental Health Act of 1963: - Correct Answers
✅Legislation enacted during the Kennedy administration directing all states to provide mental health treatment for people in crisis.
coping methods: - Correct Answers ✅The behaviors,
thinking, and emotional processes that a person uses to handle stress and continue to function.
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