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No help - lower level of functioning.
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No help - nonfunctioning level
could lead to suicide, homicide, psychosis |
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Help - higher level of functioning leads to:
Growth, insight, coping |
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| Curvilinear model of anxiety as motivator for change? |
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Low anxiety: low motivation
Moderate anxiety: highest level of motivation for performance
High anxiety: overwhelmed. paralysis. |
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Precipitating event.
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Perception.
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Subjective distress.
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Lowered functioning (when coping fails). |
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| What is a developmental crisis? |
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Occurs as one is going through lifestyle stages.
ie: Birth of a first child, menopause, etc. |
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May occur as a result of an uncommon event.
ie: assault, divorce, illness, death of a loved one, robbery, etc. |
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| The client's perception of the precipitating event that led to the crisis. This must be identified by the worker before he/she can help the client to make changes in order to increase functioning. |
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| Family, friends, co-workers. |
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| What does it mean to be crisis prone? |
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| When a person fails to grow from a crisis experience, but instead uses only their ego strength to deal with a crisis. In this case, their ego strength will be weakened. |
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The processes that a person uses to handle crisis/stress while continuing to function.
ie: thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. |
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| How the client/person behaves emotionally, socially, and through work/school. |
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| Resources such as money, food, housing, clothing, etc. Basic needs that can be a factor in how well a person handles a crisis. |
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| Ego strength, physical health, and intelligence. |
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| An event that can trigger anxiety or a crisis. |
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| An unexpected traumatic event that can impair a person's ability to function. |
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| Feelings of pain and discomfort experienced by a person in crisis. |
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| ABC model of crisis intervention. |
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A: Establish and develop rapport with the client. Use attentive behaviour: eye contact and listening.
B: Identify the problem and the precipitating event. Explore meanings/perceptions. Discuss.
Identify distress. (how is it affecting you?)
Identify impairments. (behavioural, social, work/school)
C: Coping. Explore the client's current coping skills.
Encourage new behaviours.
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| Active listening, showing presence with eye contact, etc. |
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| Questions that can be answered with a "yes", "no", or other one-word answer. |
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| Questions usually begin with "how" or "what", and encourage client to answer more fully than a close-ended question. |
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| The worker will restate in their own words what the client relays to he/she. It's an attending skill. |
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| Validating statements showing that the worker empathizes with the client in their situation. |
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| Client is deemed to be a threat to others. Worker must break confidentiality agreement and report their concerns to others. |
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| Involuntary hospitalization. |
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| If a client is a danger to themselves or to others, they may be hospitalized against their will. |
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| A written or verbal contract between client and worker in which the client agrees not to harm themselves without first consulting the worker. There may be a time limit on this, ie: "I agree not to harm myself between now and when I see you for my next appointment." |
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| The thought process involved in considering the act of suicide. |
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| A series of questions asked of the client by the worker to determine risk factors including: does the client have a plan, do they have the means, what is the reasoning for wanting to do it, etc. |
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| Aimed at changing old behaviour patterns rather just focusing on the crisis currently being presented. |
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| Using anxiety as motivation to change, the worker focuses on the client's choices for the present and future and their accepting responsibility for them. |
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| Worker uses a personal approach and basic attending skills with the client to encourage growth. |
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| This puts forth the idea that we have only a limited amount of psychic energy to deal with the stresses of life, and therefore must procede slowly in making changes with the client. |
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| Strategic family therapy. |
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| A therapy that treats the entire family when one or more of its members is affected by a crisis. |
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| Structural family therapy. |
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| Maps the relationships and patterns within a family and focuses on changes and adjustments necessary to "join" the family. |
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| The first attempt at organizing and introducing crisis intervention into a community. By Caplan and Lindemann. |
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| Assuming that a family is a self-regulated system, any member of the family that is conflicted will influence the other members to behave and cope in an opposing manner. |
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| Focuses on the client's perceptions and thoughts and how these work in a crisis. |
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| A family member in a state of crisis. Used in family systems theory. |
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| Burnout and potential results. |
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| Emotional and physical exhaustion in the workplace. Can result in negativity towards self, the job, and clients. |
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| Secondary traumatic stress. |
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| Dealing with crisis on a daily basis can result in the worker becoming depressed, developing learned helplessness, and becoming stressed. |
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| A person who is suffering from a severe mental illness such that they are unable to care for themselves. They may require hospitalization. |
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| Permission given by the client to the worker for treatment. |
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| A client/worker relationship outside the bounds of the professional. ie: sexual, business, or social. |
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| Exceptions to confidentiality. |
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| If a client is in danger of harming themselves or others or if the workers files are subpoenaed by the courts. |
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| When a worker transfers his/her unresolved personal feelings in a session with a client. |
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| What are the three dimensions of burnout? |
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Exhaustion
Cynicysm
Ineffectiveness |
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Definition
Talking about suicide will give someone the idea to do it.
Someone who talks about suicide is only looking for attention.
A suicidal person clearly wants to die.
A person who is unsuccessful in an attempt will not try again.
A suicidal person will show no warning signs.
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