Deck 12: Community Mental Health: Cross-Cultural Mental Health Response in Disasters

Question 1

1 During long-term response phases, it is preferable to deliver psychosocial services in a group format.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

2 Freelisting refers to

A) field operations
B) sharing psychoeducational information
C) requesting community members to volunteer for leadership roles
D) using open-ended conversation to identify life-challenging issues
E) using interventions that are not evidenced based

Answer 2

using open-ended conversation to identify life-challenging issues

Question 3

3 The primary challenge in developing and delivering cross-cultural training is

A) the need to meet basic needs first
B) translation
C) available leadership
D) poverty
E) lack of group participation

Answer 3

translation

Question 4

The most successful aspects of community mental-health interventions focus on

A)imparting psychoeducational material
B)formal interventions
C)providing leaders and leadership for the community
D)working independently from other organizations
E)fostering dependency on mental-health-service providers

Question 5

One of the core principles of the Sphere Project is

A)seek women's views as a means of ensuring equitable services
B)advocate that disaster mental-health services be separated from the parameters of ""health services""
C)the personal is political
D)Field Operations Guide
E)continue to provide activities supporting recovery for up to 5 years after a disaster

Question 6

The primary goal of the Sphere Project is to

A)provide ideas and values about the needs of the community
B)avoid taking an ecological perspective
C)only use evidence-based approaches
D)prevent the number of disasters that occur each year
E)return to normalcy

Question 7

According to the Psychological Field Manual, the immediate phase of response is usually defined as the first 2-4 weeks post-disaster.

Question 8

Emotional distress is the largest effect of traumatic events on both individuals and communities.

Question 9

Most disaster and trauma survivors will recover naturally using coping skills they already possess.

Question 10

A challenge to providing mental-health services after a disaster is that most people will refuse help, even when they need it.

Question 11

Match the practice guide with the appropriate best description .

-The Sphere Project

A)Earliest program defining standards for disaster-response work incorporating community mental health
B)Developed guidelines for use in non-Western, low-, and middle-income countries
C)the premier emergency-response organization in the United States
D)Highlight practical, effective, and culturally competent psychosocial trainings
E)Provides thorough description of evidence-based immediate response actions most likely to aid post-disaster survivors by reducing distress and "do no harm."

Question 12

Match the practice guide with the appropriate best description .

-Enter-Agency Standing Committee's Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings

A)Earliest program defining standards for disaster-response work incorporating community mental health
B)Developed guidelines for use in non-Western, low-, and middle-income countries
C)the premier emergency-response organization in the United States
D)Highlight practical, effective, and culturally competent psychosocial trainings
E)Provides thorough description of evidence-based immediate response actions most likely to aid post-disaster survivors by reducing distress and "do no harm."

Question 13

Match the practice guide with the appropriate best description .

-The American Red Cross

A)Earliest program defining standards for disaster-response work incorporating community mental health
B)Developed guidelines for use in non-Western, low-, and middle-income countries
C)the premier emergency-response organization in the United States
D)Highlight practical, effective, and culturally competent psychosocial trainings
E)Provides thorough description of evidence-based immediate response actions most likely to aid post-disaster survivors by reducing distress and "do no harm."

Question 14

Match the practice guide with the appropriate best description .

-Guidelines for International Training in Mental Health and Psychosocial Interventions for Trauma Exposed Populations in Clinical and Community Settings

A)Earliest program defining standards for disaster-response work incorporating community mental health
B)Developed guidelines for use in non-Western, low-, and middle-income countries
C)the premier emergency-response organization in the United States
D)Highlight practical, effective, and culturally competent psychosocial trainings
E)Provides thorough description of evidence-based immediate response actions most likely to aid post-disaster survivors by reducing distress and "do no harm."

Question 15

Match the practice guide with the appropriate best description .

-Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide

A)Earliest program defining standards for disaster-response work incorporating community mental health
B)Developed guidelines for use in non-Western, low-, and middle-income countries
C)the premier emergency-response organization in the United States
D)Highlight practical, effective, and culturally competent psychosocial trainings
E)Provides thorough description of evidence-based immediate response actions most likely to aid post-disaster survivors by reducing distress and "do no harm."