Exam 5: Crisis Case Handling

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.

In a regularly scheduled meeting with a long-term client,while discussing an employment change,your client becomes anxious and his behavior regresses dramatically.What may be happening with the client?​

Mental illness and emotional disturbance calls make up a large percentage of law enforcement calls that fall under the category of expressive crimes.​

Ground rules for therapy with difficult clients should always be used in a passive,accepting way so as to not threaten clients.

​In long-term therapy,one of the times that there is a major risk of a crisis occurring is:

When clients have been successful in accomplishing their goals in long-term therapy and are ready to terminate,they may suddenly experience profound problems that require the therapist to use crisis intervention techniques.

The police Crisis Intervention Team concept has developed because:​

​One of the more puzzling aspects of therapy and one that escalates to crisis proportions is:

The mobile crisis team operates because:​

Verbal de-escalation and defusing techniques are major components to teach when training CIT officers.​

Community mental health clinics must provide 24-hour service,as mandated by the Community Mental Health Act of 1963.

In initial diagnosis,crisis case handling always attempts a slow,methodical assessment to determine the various antecedent causes of the problem.​

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?

Mobile crisis teams have now been replaced by CIT officers.

Clients in long term therapy are typically immune from crises.

Crises may suddenly occur even when clients are successful in overcoming the crisis because they:​

On an initial visit to a mental health clinic,which of the following is not true?​

"CIT" in police terminology stands for "Crime Intervention Officer."

Crisis clients that use walk-in facilities usually have problems that are not:

In outline form,indicate the differences between long term therapy and crisis intervention.