Deck 10: Interviewing in Crisis Situations

Question 1

The authors recommend beginning a first meeting in crisis cases by asking the miracle question.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

__________ is

A) The miracle question
B) Exception questions
C) Scaling questions
D) Coping questions

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In solution-focused coping conversations, scaling questions are used in wach of the following ways except which one?

A) Reinforce coping successes.
B) Evaluate the severity of past suicide attempts.
C) Explore pre-session coping changes.
D) Formulate the next step in coping.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In crisis cases, a solution-focused interviewer thinks less about whether a client is really in crisis and more about asking questions to discover the client's immediate capacity for goal formulation.

Question 5

According to the authors, clients' perceptions of the significance of crisis events for their lives can and do shift, sometimes dramatically so.

Question 6

A "crisis" is characterized not so much by any particular situation as by the individual's response to that situation.

Question 7

Once a client in crisis starts to turn to goal formulation in a first meeting with a practitioner, the session

Question 8

The authors approach to crisis cases is consistent with:

A) a belief that a crisis represents a disturbance in the client's equilibrium.
B) a belief that the objective reality of a crisis is more important than how a client. perceives the crisis
C) a belief in the inevitability of change.
D) a belief in the systemic nature of crises.

Question 9

In crisis situations, interviewers should use less of the not-knowing approach because clients need interviewers to offer more suggestions in order to help them stabilize.

Question 10

The more severe a client's crisis, the less the client is able to begin working on goals.

Question 11

Which of the following do the authors indicate as inappropriate to ask of a client who is contemplating suicide?

A) How did you survive long enough to get here?
B) How have you managed to cope for so long?
C) How come things are not worse?
D) Any of these questions could be appropriate to ask

Question 12

Coping exploration is best described as a form of:

A) exception exploration.
B) end-of-session feedback.
C) complimenting.
D) empathizing.

Question 13

Because assessment plays such a small role in solution building, De Jong and Berg do not think it is worthwhile for interviewers to acquaint themselves with the problem-assessment instruments commonly used to assess clients' life-sustaining and safety needs.

Question 14

Paradoxically, according to the authors, the best assessment information in crisis cases about whether clients will be able to meet life-sustaining and safety needs is the extent and type of their solution talk.

Question 15

In crisis situations, clients are generally dealing with threats to the needs which Maslow identified as most basic to human existence.

Question 16

In crisis situations, the authors recommend first doing a basic assessment for how serious the crisis is for the client and, once the client is found not to be overwhelmed, moving on to solution building.

Question 17

Clients in crisis build solutions through the same process as all clients.

Question 18

What did Jermaine

A) Participating in a self-help group for those who had been kidnapped
B) Knowing that his kidnappers had been caught and would be prosecuted
C) Listening to his wife's breathing in the middle of the night
D) Remembering how important his children were to him

Question 19

The inability to sleep is a common response of clients right after a crisis.

Question 20

De Jong and Berg state that solution-building activities are generally less appropriate the more severe a crisis is for the client.

Question 21

is

A) The miracle question
B) Exception questions
C) Coping questions
D) Scaling questions