Crisis Intervention Terminology
The thing that causes a crisis response.
What is a precipitating event?
Customs, mores, behaviours and standards that guide crisis workers.
What are ethics?
A type of question that can be answered yes or no.
What is a close-ended question?
Beliefs and thoughts often observed in individuals who are suffering from psychotic episodes due to mental illness.
What are delusions?
A condition that occurs when people have been severely traumatized and are not functioning effectively.
What is PTSD?
When a loss occurs the person is in shock or in a state of non-acceptance.
What is denial?
The two sides of crisis-according to the Chinese.
What is Crisis as Danger and Opportunity?
This is considered the hallmark of trust, privileged communication and belongs to the client.
What is confidentiality?
The best way to show emotional empathy for a client; the counsellor points out the client's emotions by stating them as seen or heard.
What is reflection?
The cognition component of suicide, the thinking involved.
What is suicidal ideation?
A specialty field of mental health treatment in which counsellors are trained how to respond to people after they have experienced some form of community disaster.
What is Disaster Mental Health?
When someone tries to make a deal with God, doctors or loved ones after experiencing a profound loss.
What is bargaining?
Examples of this include: conception, pregnancy, birth, adolescence, mid-life crisis, retirement and death.
What is Developmental Crisis?
These guidelines describe _________________.
-evidence based -continuing education
-supervision -referrals
-training -boundaries
What is competence or professionalism?
A basic attending skill or clarifying technique in which counsellors restate in their own words what was just said by the client.
What is paraphrasing?
A blueprint for action that clients have devised for killing themselves.
What is a plan?
When someone who has experienced trauma splits off from the terror and fear of the event and pushes their feelings into their subconscious.
What is dissociation?
The famous physician who developed the stages of grief.
Who is Elisabeth Kubler-Ross?
Examples of this include sexual crisis/rape/incest, acute or chronic illness, substance abuse, divorce, culture shock, violence.
What is Situational Crisis?
A relationship that a counsellor engages in with the client outside of the professional setting.
What is a dual relationship?
Networks of helping individuals and agencies.
What are support systems?
The actual physical implement, pills or action that a suicidal person uses to kill themselves.
What is means?
A state of preparedness and anxiety that often occurs after someone has been personally attacked.
What is hypervigilance?
Trick question: what is your middle name?
_____________________________
What term is used to describe:
feelings of vulnerability
confusion and conflict
low or no ability to perform day to day
disruption in sleep, eating and everyday tasks
What is failure to cope?
Situations in which communication between a therapist and client can be legally and ethically shared with others.
What are exceptions?
A skill used to tie ideas together , wrap up a session and move from the B phase of the ABC model to the C phase.
What is summarizing?
False sensory perceptions
What are hallucinations?
A type of treatment for PTSD that combines cognitive, behavioural and exposure therapies.
What is EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
The intense feelings people can have about the unfairness of death.
What is anger or rage?