Deck 21: Crisis Intervention With Adolescent Victims of Sexual Assault Kristen Zaleski

Question 1

Who are the first professionals who help traumatized adolescents begin their healing journey?

A) Police officers
B) Victim assessment counselors
C) Priests or chaplains
D) Social workers

Answer 1

Social workers

Question 2

Which is an area of the reporting process where social workers can assist?

A) At the time of reporting
B) During detainment
C) During forensic evidence collection
D) At the apprehension of the perpetrator

Answer 2

During forensic evidence collection

Question 3

What theorist introduced the adolescent psychosocial stages of development?

A) Marx
B) Erikson
C) Freud
D) Skinner

Answer 3

Erikson

Question 4

What is the crisis that once resolved, an adolescent successfully forms a lasting identity and strong sense of self-worth?

A) Psychological distress
B) Cognitive dissonance
C) Psychosocial crisis
D) Social awkwardness

Question 5

What phase in development does an adolescent encounter social isolation and trauma resulting in low self-esteem?

A) Identity crisis
B) Identity confusion
C) Identity formation
D) Identity trust

Question 6

What part of the cognitive process does sexual trauma affect?

A) Psyche
B) Brain
C) Processing
D) Critical thinking

Question 7

In which stage of development do adolescents experience rapid neural pruning?

A) Adolescence
B) Toddlerhood
C) Preadolescence
D) Puberty

Question 8

What part of the body controls the nervous system?

A) Heart
B) Brain
C) Hypothalamus
D) Eyes

Question 9

What is one form of self-injury?

A) Restrictive eating
B) Not sleeping
C) Acting out
D) Unkempt body image

Question 10

It is important when working with persons of sexual assault to assess if there is a history of acting out in these ways.

Question 11

Sexual trauma destabilizes effects on the psyche and shifts teenager's sense of mastery and safety within their social world.

Question 12

Victims of sexual trauma destabilize the social network of trauma with the help of social workers.

Question 13

The time to rewire emotional and cognitive states is during early adulthood.

Question 14

It is in the neurobiological senses where the brain experiences rapid growth in adolescence.

Question 15

An adolescent's brain is not wired to enjoy risk-taking behaviors.

Question 16

Unresolved self-blame may result in shame or regret, influencing neurobiology to a more negative emotional state.

Question 17

Sexual identity affects the context of one's social life, but not in the context of virginity.

Question 18

Virginity is a physical commodity that can be stolen by a perpetrator.

Question 19

One goal of crisis intervention is to return clients to the pretrauma functioning stage.

Question 20

What are five of the eight Psychological First Aid core actions to treating persons in crisis?

Question 21

What are the four transference and countertransference issues that can also be experienced by social workers as they work with victims of sexual assault?

Question 22

What are the three steps in the three-pronged sexual assault report for social workers?

Question 23

Describe crisis intervention and what it allows the clinician to see.