Deck 13: Working in the Community

Question 1

The goal of the community approach is to

A)provide long-term therapy for individual clients.
B)implement managed care in all agency settings.
C)educate the public and attempt to change the attitudes of the community toward mental-health programs.
D)focus on individual client change.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

_____ is a multifaceted approach combining direct and indirect services to help community members live more effectively and to prevent the problems most frequently faced by those who use the services.

A)Group counseling
B)Community counseling
C)Client advocacy
D)Preventative education
E)Crisis intervention

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The Chinese symbol for crisis represents

A)a horrible catastrophe.
B)a sign of fate.
C)both danger and opportunity.
D)a new beginning.
E)none of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

_____ is a short-term approach to helping that is the treatment of choice in cases where clients are experiencing a state of acute psychological disequilibrium.

A)Family therapy
B)Community counseling
C)Crisis intervention
D)Network therapy
E)Brief therapy

Question 5

Practitioners must remember that before people can be motivated toward growth and actualization

A)they must be well off financially
B)they must be well educated
C)their basic needs must be met
D)both a and b

Question 6

The major goal of first-order crisis intervention is to

A)reestablish an individual's immediate coping capacity.
B)give the individual an opportunity to work through unfinished business.
C)help the person in crisis get some focus on the problem and set short-range goals of what to do next.
D)help the individual to develop an understanding of how the event has affected them,including the meaning of the crisis in their lives.

Question 7

Which of the following tasks might practitioners be involved in when educating the community?

A)Supporting the needs of minority groups in the community
B)Initiating programs aimed at preventing problems
C)Developing strategies to deal effectively with poverty,drug and alcohol abuse,child sexual/physical abuse,child neglect,and domestic violence
D)Evaluating human-service programs to assess agency intervention efforts
E)All of the above

Question 8

Who is likely to receive the greatest benefit from direct community services?

A)Teenagers participating in an AIDS awareness/prevention workshop.
B)A heroine addict.
C)The leader of a gang.
D)All of the above

Question 9

Richard's wife was raped and he is having problems dealing with it.He tells his counselor,"If I ever find the guy who raped my wife,I'll kill him! I shouldn't have encouraged her to work the night shift to save money on babysitting." Richard is experiencing a

A)developmental crisis.
B)sexuality crisis.
C)retaliation crisis.
D)situational crisis.

Question 10

Which of the following groups of people might be reluctant to seek professional counseling or therapy?

A)Ethnically diverse clients
B)People in rural environments
C)Older adults
D)All of the above
E)Both a and c

Question 11

The crisis worker can connect the client to community resources

A)that should be accessed only during times of crisis.
B)that can be utilized throughout the client's life.
C)such as community agencies,schools,churches,health clubs.
D)a and c
E)b and c

Question 12

Becoming a culturally competent helper requires being open to

A)indigenous health and healing practices.
B)psychodynamic explanations for clients' irrational behavior.
C)higher malpractice insurance premiums.
D)working longer hours in one's office and doing more paperwork.

Question 13

All of the following are considered as alternative helping roles except for which of the following?

A)advocate
B)diagnostic expert
C)facilitator of indigenous support systems
D)change agent
E)consultant

Question 14

The outreach approach includes educational endeavors of

A)skills training
B)education of the community
C)consultation
D)all of the above

Question 15

Second-order crisis intervention involves

A)immediate assistance and often takes only one session.
B)ensuring the client's safety.
C)short-range plans of what to do next.
D)going beyond immediate coping and aims at crisis resolution and change.

Question 16

Today,helpers are encouraged to become_____ to reform social systems and ameliorate unnecessary suffering.

A)political candidates
B)environmental change agents
C)sociopolitical activists
D)a and b
E)b and c

Question 17

Marilyn's five-year old daughter has the flu and needs to be admitted to the hospital for dehydration.Marilyn wants to stay overnight with her in the hospital,but the head nurse refuses her request.When Marilyn comes to you for help,you find out the hospital procedure for overnights,then discuss this with Marilyn,and decide that you both should try to approach the head nurse about the situation.In this instance,you are using the following indirect client service:

A)outreach activities
B)client advocacy
C)confronting ethical issues
D)networking
E)hospital advocacy

Question 18

Having a strong infrastructure of community programs in place

A)may be preferable for populations who might not feel comfortable seeking the services of a professional therapist
B)may actually backfire,since it could discourage some individuals from seeking the help of a therapist when they are in dire need of professional help.
C)is not cost effective.
D)b and c.

Question 19

Helpers who participate in social and political activism are carrying out which of the following roles?

A)outreach
B)client advocacy
C)paraprofessional intervention
D)preventive education
E)consultant

Question 20

Any indigenous healing practices may

A)cause helpers to feel a heightened sense of anxiety.
B)benefit the helper's self-care program.
C)require helpers to abandon their own religious or spiritual values.
D)both a and c.

Question 21

The community approach tends to treat dysfunctions as belonging to the individual,and the helper teaches the individual to adjust to the "realities" of living in a society.

Question 22

Unless professionals actively work on presenting helping services in a way that is understandable to the community at large,many people who could benefit from professional help may not seek it out.

Question 23

Community workers need to be experts,which includes deciding for a community what is needed.

Question 24

Client advocacy is an example of a direct community service.

Question 25

The community approach is needed only for those who are underserved by traditional means of psychotherapy.

Question 26

Helpers who adopt a social activist and social justice perspective think mainly in terms of remediation of problems in individual clients' lives.

Question 27

Second-order intervention can be thought of as psychological first aid.

Question 28

Arranging for referrals is not considered as an important part of the crisis intervention approach.

Question 29

The short-term crisis intervention model is considered more cost effective than is the traditional model of psychotherapy.

Question 30

One way community workers can initiate change is by organizing within an agency and developing a collective voice.

Question 31

It is unrealistic to think that community helpers can exercise a role in shaping social policy.

Question 32

Culturally skilled community workers understand how the sociopolitical influences impinge on the experiences of racial and ethnic minority groups.

Question 33

Your primary task in crisis intervention is to ensure your clients' safety.

Question 34

Outreach activities are examples of indirect community services.

Question 35

Mental health services can no longer be tailor-made for the upper-middle class.

Question 36

From a community perspective,helpers are required to assume nontraditional roles if they expect to make an impact on social systems.