Exam 10: Interviewing in Crisis Situations

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Paradoxically, according to the authors, the best assessment information in crisis cases about whether clients will be able to meet life-sustaining and safety needs is the extent and type of their solution talk.

Once a client in crisis starts to turn to goal formulation in a first meeting with a practitioner, the session

Coping exploration is best described as a form of:

The authors recommend beginning a first meeting in crisis cases by asking the miracle question.

Clients in crisis build solutions through the same process as all clients.

In crisis cases, a solution-focused interviewer thinks less about whether a client is really in crisis and more about asking questions to discover the client's immediate capacity for goal formulation.

Because assessment plays such a small role in solution building, De Jong and Berg do not think it is worthwhile for interviewers to acquaint themselves with the problem-assessment instruments commonly used to assess clients' life-sustaining and safety needs.

According to the authors, clients' perceptions of the significance of crisis events for their lives can and do shift, sometimes dramatically so.

In crisis situations, interviewers should use less of the not-knowing approach because clients need interviewers to offer more suggestions in order to help them stabilize.

The authors approach to crisis cases is consistent with:

Which of the following do the authors indicate as inappropriate to ask of a client who is contemplating suicide?

The more severe a client's crisis, the less the client is able to begin working on goals.

The inability to sleep is a common response of clients right after a crisis.

A "crisis" is characterized not so much by any particular situation as by the individual's response to that situation.

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In crisis situations, the authors recommend first doing a basic assessment for how serious the crisis is for the client and, once the client is found not to be overwhelmed, moving on to solution building.

In crisis situations, clients are generally dealing with threats to the needs which Maslow identified as most basic to human existence.

De Jong and Berg state that solution-building activities are generally less appropriate the more severe a crisis is for the client.