Deck 6: Crisis, Trauma and Task-Centered Practice

Question 1

Both crisis intervention and task-centered practice:

A) reflect a preference for structured interventions
B) reflect a preference for brief and practical interventions
C) are sometimes criticized for avoiding long-term individual problems and social issues
D) all of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Contracts made between clients and practitioners have been criticized for:

A) making the relationship too formal
B) implying that there is equality between client and practitioner
C) creating unnecessary structure
D) all of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Crisis:

A) refers to a process of events in people's lives that provides a focus for practitioners to work with clients
B) refers to commonly occurring elements in life that present a series of maturational tasks for people to complete
C) may be better coped with by people if they had coped with previous crises in their lives, less well if they had not resolved past problems.
D) all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Tasks are:

A) structured elements of intervention in task-centered practice
B) part of the process for creating a client contract
C) steps in establishing a practice meeting with a client
D) none of the above

Question 5

The focus and brevity of task-centered and crisis intervention treatments offer a(n) ___________ as compared to longer-term methods.

A) economical approach
B) political approach
C) ethical approach
D) none of the above

Question 6

Many social workers find the clarity of the processes involved in these models ____:

A) a barrier to client's believing in their effectiveness
B) an indication of the lack evidence in their effectiveness
C) very attractive but they may oversimplify the complexity of the issues in people's lives
D) none of the above

Question 7

While models differ in detail, overall they define social problems in behavioral terms and according to the practitioner's assumptions:

Question 8

Task-centered work deals with:

A) a wide range of problems
B) emphasizes clear definitions of target problems, task, time and limits
C) having a clear structure and focus in the process of work
D) all of the above.

Question 9

Which of the following describes a situation in which crisis intervention and task-centered models would not be effective?

A) where there is a presence of constant debilitating crises and long-term psychological problems
B) child-protective work
C) where people do not accept the right of the worker or agency to be involved
D) both a and c are correct

Question 10

Crisis intervention, with its more psychodynamic roots, offers a greater emphasis on ___________ than task-centered work, which assumes greater rationality on the part of clients.

A) emotional responses or unconscious behavior
B) planned interventions
C) the use of contracts
D) the mind and its role in perceiving the crisis

Question 11

Both crisis and task-centered practice focus on the shared principles of defined positive aims and action sequences thus making them easy to grasp and apply.

Question 12

Both crisis and task-centered practice are attractive to public agencies because:

A) both focus on social change
B) neither is a mainly technical response to immediate problems
C) both have grounding in critical theories
D) none of the above

Question 13

A practice idea that refers to a process of events in people's lives that provides a focus for practitioners to work with clients and to commonly occurring elements in life that present a series of maturational tasks for us to complete is:

A) process
B) crisis
C) therapy
D) none of the above

Question 14

Differences between crisis intervention and task-centered practice do not include:

A) stressing brief interventions
B) highly structured
C) explicit agreements
D) focus of their intervention

Question 15

Both have shared values principles of transparency and accountability.

Question 16

Short-term interventions have limitations including:

A) dealing with constant debilitating crises
B) addressing long-term psychological problems
C) aiding long-term care service situations
D) all of the above

Question 17

Agency managers and funders found task-centered work more politically acceptable because:

A) there appeared to be a less liberal bias than conventional social work
B) of research-based effectiveness
C) this approach was developed outside of the social work profession
D) none of the above

Question 18

Which of the following is a criticism of the use of contracts?

A) they allow the client to have too much input in treatment
B) they allow the worker to have too much input in treatment
C) they offer a false sense of equality between workers and clients
D) all of the above

Question 19

These short-term interventions began:

A) in the 1960s as a resource-light agency intervention
B) following evidence-based practice use in the USA
C) after a succession of emergencies including major loss of life in fires
D) as a result of social construction research

Question 20

The success of these approaches in social work comes from __________.

A) attractiveness and practical usability
B) their economical approach
C) the involvement in the front line of public services puts social workers in touch with crises in the people's lives
D) all of the above