Crisis Basics
A crisis has 3 components. The first of these components is called a ________ event.
Precipitating
Counselors and mental health professionals can help crisis victims through a process called ________. The goal is to help the client defuse emotions, rearrange cognitive processes, and organize what happened mentally.
Crisis management or crisis intervention.
The rate of this type of death is 16 per 100,000 in adults over the age of 65. It affects close to 1 million people per year, and men 3x more than women.
Suicide
There are how many types of counseling groups?
4.
Psychoeducational Groups
Counseling Groups
Psychotherapy Groups
Task/Work Groups
The first stage of group development is called ______. In this stage, the foundation is laid for the future. Members get to know one another and discuss non-problematic issues.
Forming
This type of crisis occurs during the normal flow of human growth. An example of this crisis is a teenage pregnancy.
Developmental crisis
This assessment model relies on the ABC: Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive.
Triage assessment model
________ is not an exact science. It often involves giving an interview that evaluates a clients risk factors and develops an appropriate response. The below are all tools in its use:
Beck Depression Inventory – II
Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation
Brief Reasons for Living Inventory
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2
Suicide Ideation Scale
Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire
Suicide Status Form
Suicide assessment
This type of counseling group focuses on prevention, growth, and remediation. Can help members resolve and cope with usual, yet difficult life situations. These groups emphasize interactions among people in resolving concerns.
Counseling groups.
One of the limitations of group counseling is that group members might fall into this type of mentality:
Group-think
What two models of crisis rely on the English alphabet for their name?
ABCX and Double ABCX
One of the goals of psychological first aid is to _____. This is defined as informing and normalizing the emotional and psychological responses people are experiencing.
validate
What part of the suicide assessment asks about a clients frequency of suicidal thoughts, duration of thoughts, and intensity of thoughts?
Ideation
This groups primary function is the prevention of personal or societal disorder. Stresses growth through knowledge. In this group, the leader is often an expert in the topic and the members are typically well-functioning.
Psychoeducational groups
The second stage of group development is called _____. In this stage, the leader is often attacked. It is marked by increased tension and turmoil within the group.
Storming
An unexpected, extraordinary event can cause a ______ crisis. The person involved had no way of predicting or controlling this crisis.
Situational crisis
Counselors can experience ___________. This is a response to helping people who experience trauma and is also called secondary traumatic stress. It can lead to symptoms that resemble PTSD.
Compassion fatigue
Interpersonal support, no access to suicidal means, investment in mental health care, and healthy problem solving skills are all considered ___________ in a suicidal patient, the opposite of a risk factor.
Protective factors
This type of group focuses on individuals with more serious psychological problems. The goal is to help group members rebuild major dimensions of their personality. The group leader must be a mental health professional.
Psychotherapy group
An effective group leader has 4 qualities. One of these qualities is _____, where the leader is able to clarify, explain, and provide a cognitive framework for change.
Meaning attribution.
Crises can lead to this mental disorder, in which the trauma from a crisis lives in an individuals mind long after the event has passed. Symptoms include flashbacks, avoidance, and intense fear or helplessness.
PTSD
Vicarious traumatization
This part of the suicide assessment plan uses the SLAP acronym: Specificity, Lethality, Access to means, and Proximity to social support.
Plan
Some groups do not fit into any category that we have discussed. An example would be a self help group. These groups are called what?
Mixed groups
The pioneer of group work was this man, who started a support group for tuberculosis patients in 1905. The patients reported the experience to be informative, supportive, and therapeutic.
Joseph Hersey Pratt