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Counseling Practicum is an experiential course designed to provide students with supervised, hands-on experience in counseling settings. Through direct client interactions, role-plays, and observation, students develop and refine essential counseling skills, including assessment, intervention, and ethical decision-making. The course emphasizes the application of theoretical knowledge to practical situations, fostering self-awareness, professional identity, and competence as an emerging counselor. Regular feedback and supervision from instructors and peers support students growth and enhance their confidence in diverse counseling environments.
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Crisis Intervention Strategies 8th Edition by Richard K. James
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Chapter 1: Approaching Crisis Intervention
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Q1) A model of crisis intervention that reaches outside the individual and promotes change in the systems in need of change is the:
A)cognitive-milieu model.
B)psychoanalytic model.
C)psychosocial transition model.
D)disequilibrium model.
Answer: C
Q2) The major providers of crisis intervention services in the United States are:
A)volunteers.
B)social workers.
C)psychologists.
D)counselors.
Answer: A
Q3) The Equilibrium model of crisis intervention seeks to equalize faulty thinking.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Culturally Effective Helping
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Q1) Of the following cultural barriers,which is not identified in the text?
A)geography
B)occupation
C)religion
D)sexual orientation
Answer: D
Q2) A member of a high-context culture would believe that a crisis counselor should:
A)gain information about the individual's personal status.
B)gain information about the individual's social status.
C)be explicit and straightforward in language usage.
D)use stories and metaphors to get a point across.
Answer: D
Q3) It has been proven that Asian and Latino cultures have a much more collectivist world view than Americans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Intervention and Assessment Models
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Q1) Above 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.
Answer: A
Q2) It is important to determine whether a client is experiencing an acute versus a chronic crisis event to increase the utility of a crisis resolution plan.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A rating of 9 on a specific triage A,B,or C scale would indicate:
A)some overall impairment but controllable emotions.
B)a great deal of impairment but controllable thinking.
C)little impairment and no need for control of any dimension.
D)a marked impairment and barely controllable behavior that is moving toward lethality.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Tools of the Trade
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Q1) Closed questions are useful in crisis intervention to:
A)request description.
B)encourage expansion.
C)increase focus.
D)express empathy.
Q2) An important aspect of listening is to respond in ways that let the client know that the worker is hearing both the content and underlying emotional content.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The crisis worker who interacts with complete acceptance of clients demonstrates:
A)an ability to reassure a client even when there is little hope of the client's dilemma being solved.
B)a total understanding of the client's problem from the crisis worker's point of view.
C)the utmost of confidence that the client will succeed in overcoming the crisis.
D)an unconditional positive regard for clients that transcends clients' personal qualities,beliefs,problems,situations,or crises.
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Chapter 5: Crisis Case Handling
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Q1) One of the most difficult,manipulative types of long-term clients to deal with is the ____________ personality disorder client.
A)borderline
B)dependent
C)narcissistic
D)schizotypal
Q2) "CIT" in police terminology stands for "Crime Intervention Officer."
A)True
B)False
Q3) People with personality disorders such as a borderline personality can usually overcome a crisis rather quickly if the worker assumes a compliant,accepting,and nondirective approach.
A)True
B)False
Q4) You are the supervisor of a mobile crisis team in a rural area of the state.You have been invited to help train local law enforcement personnel as first responders for people in crisis.What do you want to include in the training program?
Q5) In outline form,indicate the differences between long term therapy and crisis intervention.
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Chapter 6: Telephone and Online Crisis Counseling
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Q1) Telephone crisis centers have ready access to a variety of support systems.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of the major problems with behavioral telehealth and specifically crisis lines over the Internet is:
A)accessibility.
B)confidentiality and anonymity
C)cost.
D)there are no problems with telehealth.
Q3) One of the major problems in a community telephone crisis line is that workers have to be "expert" in a large variety of areas.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One of the techniques for dealing with severely disturbed callers is to reflect their disturbed feelings and share their delusions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Q1) Assessment of PTSD may be best accomplished by:
A)structured interviews specifically related to PTSD criteria.
B)personality tests with special PTSD scales like the MMPI and Mississippi Combat Scale.
C)complete medical work-ups to determine degree and kind of neurobiological involvement.
D)incidence of drug use and criminal acts.
Q2) Flooding works well as a safe therapeutic intervention with children because it allows them to expunge intrusive thoughts.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "Railway spine" was a historical precursor of what is now known as PTSD.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Child abuse and rape victims experience PTSD very differently than other victims of PTSD.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the behavioral differences between Terr's Type I and Type II childhood trauma?
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Chapter 8: Crisis of Lethality
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Q1) The 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.
Q2) Discuss the issue of suicide prevention compared to the societal "right to die with dignity" movement.How might cultural values impact on this issue?
Q3) One 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.
B)analyzing the suicide/homicide notes left behind.
C)tempering the sensationalism of press reports on it.
D)educating the general public,mental health professionals,and other agency and institutional personnel regarding the characteristic thinking and behaving of suicidal/homicidal persons.
Q4) What are some of the "Don'ts" in managing suicidal clients?
Q5) What goes into a "Stay Alive" contract?
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Chapter 9: Sexual Assault
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Q1) Taking "control over women" is one of the myths of rape.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Female date rape survivors in college have been found to be more likely to have experienced:
A)false memories of sexual abuse in childhood than college women who reported no date rape experience.
B)more gender inequality throughout their lives than college women who reported no date rape experience.
C)stress,maltreatment,and negative home environment/neglect during childhood than women who reported no date rape experience.
D)no date rape risk training and education during freshman orientation.
Q3) Intergenerational transmission of sexual abuse is a sad but true fact.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the clinical indicators that a child may have been sexually abused.
Q5) Discuss the societal myths regarding rape and sexual assault and how they are so detrimental?
Q6) What are the reasons men commit rape and some ways that society supports rape?
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Chapter 10: Partner Violence
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Q1) Intake interviews for women who are battered are best done in a hospital or police station with the batterer present so the assaulted person can feel safe and secure in naming the perpetrator.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following are myths associated with battering,except:
A)alcohol abuse is a prime reason for battering.
B)"problem" families are mainly involved in battering.
C)battering relationships are more prominent in the lower socio-economic classes.
D)older couples have violent relationships,which include high risk for lethality.
Q3) Based in psychoanalytic theory,the idea of erotic masochism remains relevant as the research evidence supports the idea battering is sexy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There is little domestic violence in same-sex relationships.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Family Crisis Intervention
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Q1) The letter "C" in the ABCX model for crisis intervention with families stand for:
A)families interpretation of the event.
B)cognitions of individual family members.
C)case impressions of the crisis worker.
D)communication within the family.
Q2) Which of the following in not a type of family crisis?
A)Developmental
B)Pile Up Crisis
C)Bolt from the Blue
D)Identity
Q3) Crises test families' structural integrity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is not true for family crisis intervention?
A)Family goals will not be examined following a crisis.
B)Family roles remain relatively stable following a crisis.
C)The morale of a family may change following a crisis because what is important may be questioned.
D)The exchange of information among family members can be effected by a crisis.
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Chapter 12: Personal Loss
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Q1) The death of a spouse,although traumatic has no effect on the surviving spouse's mortality rate.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Peer deaths for adolescents can be particularly traumatic for them because the deaths are not normative,unexpected and shouldn't happen much like adults in handling grief.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Dual process model involves:
A)emotional resource allocation to new modes of living.
B)release of emotional attachment of the loss object.
C)movement at one's own pace between a loss orientation and a restoration orientation.
D)the bi-polar dilemma of death avoiding and death approaching.
Q4) A DIVORCE map is a way of getting at:
A)previous unseparated attachments.
B)finding and disputing the client's irrational beliefs.
C)restoration activities.
D)loss orientation.
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Chapter 13: Crisis in Schools
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Q1) Of the following principal roles on a crisis response team,which one does not belong?
A)Crisis response coordinator
B)Triage assessor
C)Media liaison
D)Crisis intervention coordinator
Q2) Modeling is not a very effective way to teach violent behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Schools are generally very safe places to be.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Grossman proposes that one reason for the upsurge in school violence is unsupervised behavioral conditioning.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss risk assessment and intervention with an EVJO student.
Q6) Schools should not be in the memorial business.That's the job of funeral homes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Violent Behavior in Institutions
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Q1) You have been tabbed by your boss to create a comprehensive institutional safety plan.Discuss how you will go about this task and what needs to be included in the plan.
Q2) The safest way to monitor and control new clients for potential violence in a clinic or institution is for the admissions worker to check the client in and monito the client closely while waiting for unit staff to collect the client.
A)True
B)False
Q3) You are a worker in a residential treatment program for behaviorally disruptive adolescents.Briefly describe the stages of intervention with a potentially violent individual.
Q4) A primary component of option therapy is:
A)deciding what medication will be used.
B)deciding who will have control over the client's behavior.
C)that it is only used in emergencies.
D)that it is completely up to the worker as to when it will be used.
Q5) Denial by both staff and institutions contributes to institutional violence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) The crisis worker may need to break client confidentiality when which of the following criteria as met?
A)Protect self or others,serious threat,the average practitioner,vague timeline
B)Protect self or others,vague timeline,peer/lay counselor,mild threat
C)Protect self or others,serious threat,foreseeable future,reasonable practitioner
D)Protect self or others,mild threat,reasonable practitioner,foreseeable future
Q2) Ethically,crisis intervention workers are encouraged to prepare for crisis or disaster situations before,during the crises or disaster,and the period of post crisis recovery.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mental health professionals who are considering serving as a volunteer in disaster situations should determine whether their professional liability policy will be in effect while serving as a volunteer rather than as part of their employment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Burnout, vicarious Traumatization, and Compassion Fatigue
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Q1) The term burnout comes from mental patients who were burned out physically and mentally.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Vicarious traumatization and compassion fatigue are endemic to crisis work because:
A)many crisis workers have severe transference issues before they ever get in the work due to their own trauma.
B)crisis workers get addicted to the adrenaline high of traumatic dilemmas and won't walk away when they need to.
C)it is easy to "catch" the awful symptoms clients have.
D)it is a compensatory behavior for burned-out workers.
Q3) Burnout may be characterized by what levels?
A)Person,place,and time
B)Worker,institution,and environment
C)Trait,state,and activity
D)Past,present,and future
Q4) Compassion satisfaction can be an extremely effective buffer against burnout.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Disaster Response
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Q1) It is believed that CISD:
A)is absolutely helpful.
B)is absolutely awful.
C)is somewhere in the middle.
D)has ardent believers on both sides of the issue.
Q2) The disillusionment phase occurs about three months into the chronosystem of a disaster's aftermath.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Professional organizations such as the American School Counseling Association provide all of these,except:
A)counseling assistance after disasters.
B)information and psycho-educational materials for the public.
C)formats for discussion of theory and practice of crisis intervention.
D)disaster relief services for adults.
Q4) What part do national organizations,such as NOVA and the American Red Cross,play in crisis intervention?
Q5) The super mesosystem links the macrosystem with all interior systems.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Chemical Dependency
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Q1) The Community Reinforcement Approach is a very eclectic approach that crosscuts all of the ecosystems of the individual,even to the point of using Antabuse.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Besides their mental health problems,the mentally ill tend to be big abusers of alcohol and drugs.
A)True B)False
Q3) There is one clear-cut model of addiction which chemical dependency units use in treatment programs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Enablers will:
A)seek to find other addictive personalities to form a relationship with,in order to help them.
B)attempt to keep the family in maladaptive homeostasis.
C)find other codependents to support them.
D)have few defense mechanisms to help them cope.
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Chapter 19: Crisishostage Negotiation
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Q1) Expressive behavior in hostage taking has to do with weak individuals becoming powerful by taking hostages.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which statement best describes the estranged hostage taker?
A)He/She has a false system of beliefs with hallucinations and delusions.
B)He/She is confused and unable to make a decision with reduced energy and affect.
C)He/She is aggrieved by the system,bears many "crosses," and has iron-clad belief system.
D)He/She conflicts with society,blames others,is concerned only for him-/herself.
Q3) In gathering information,a hostage negotiator would first:
A)attempt to determine who the hostage taker is so as to obtain a profile.
B)determine the reason the hostages were taken so as to know how to negotiate.
C)find out who the hostages are so the Stockholm syndrome could be used.
D)know the physical layout of the site so as to determine the best and safest route of attack if necessary.
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