CRIS 305 Quiz Crises of Suicidality

CRIS 305 Quiz Crises of Suicidality

1. Seung-Hui Cho’s egoistic murder/suicidal rampage at Virginia Tech is characteristically marked with unendurable psyche ache.
2. Sometimes crisis workers are devastated and vulnerable to permanent emotional wounds whenever they wrongly believe that they could have or should have prevented a suicide or homicide. The procedures that appropriately counters the guilt, grief, and loss and help crisis workers begin to heal and return to their own previous level of equilibrium and normalcy are:
3. The impact of having failed to save a person who was a client, or the victim of the client, can be overwhelming and can cause the crisis worker to experience what is called:
4. Almost all suicidal persons reveal:
5. Whenever a suicidal person, who is not previously known by the crisis worker, is emotionally overwhelmed and immobile, one effective way to break through that immobility is to:
6. All of the following statements about statistics on suicide are true, except:
7. Each suicide is idiosyncratic, and there are no absolute or universal characteristics which portray all suicides.
8. People with strong death wishes are invariably:
9. Discussing suicide with a client will usually cause the person to move toward doing it.
10. One of the very first things the CIT officer does to get Deborah off the bridge is to simply tell her in a kind but authoritative voice to climb down.
11. Many times the suicidal person is also homicidal.
12. There is essentially no difference country by country in the number of people per capita that commit suicide.
13. Considering the myth that when a person has attempted suicide and pulls out of it the danger is over, a crisis worker should remember that if such a client seemed unusually serene and nonlethal toward self:
14. IS PATH WARM is:
15. Which one of the following is not listed as a myth about suicide?
16. Which one of the following indicators should not be considered high-risk in terms of suicide potential?
17. A postvention method of helping people to either gain a better understanding of why a suicide happened or to feel less guilt and responsibility for the deceased’s death is:
18. Which of the following is not a category of assessment dynamics which is of concern to workers who deal with suicidal clients?
19. On a worldwide basis, about a million people kill themselves each year.
20. In an assisted suicide, someone else provides the means (lethal agent) but the person who is dying administers it. In euthanasia: