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Chapter 33:From Helplessness to Active Coping in Israel: Psychological First Aid (Shira Hantman and Moshe Farchi)

Multiple Choice

1. What experience causes physical, emotional, or psychological distress or harms one’s personal sense of safety and stability?

a. Psychosocial response

b. Posttraumatic stress

c. Distress

*d. Traumatic event

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

2. What psychological assessment needs to be rapid, concise, and accurate?

a. Formative assessment

b. Dialectical assessment

*c.Psychological first aid

d. Mindfulness

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Micro Perspective: Perceived Psychological Trauma
Question Type: MC

3. What system controls autonomous reactions?

a. Thyroid system

*b. Limbic system

c. Amygdala system

d. Frontal cortex

Cognitive Domain:Knowledge

Answer Location:Neuropsychology of Acute Stress Reduction: Use of Cognitive Communication
Question Type: MC

4. What part of the brain is the integrative center for emotions and motivation?

*a. Amygdala

b. Limbic system

c. Limbic lobe

d. Frontal cortex

Cognitive Domain:Knowledge

Answer Location:Neuropsychology of Acute Stress Reduction: Use of Cognitive Communication
Question Type: MC

5. What type of trauma triggers the sympathetic system and overloads the senses?

a. Trauma memory

b. Interminable trauma

*c. Perceived trauma

d. Trauma overload

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Trauma Memory
Question Type: MC

6. What is the time range for an acute stress reaction to occur after the event?

a. 5–24 hours

*b. 0–48 hours

c. 24–48 hours

d. 10–20 hours

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Trauma Memory
Question Type: MC

7. What is an example of the symptoms of acute stress reaction?

*a. Disorientation

b. Arousal

c. Avoidance

d. Abuse

Cognitive Domain:Comprehension

Answer Location: Trauma Memory

Question Type: MC

8. How many hours lapse before an acute stress disorder may take place?

a. 40 hours

b. 24 hours

c. 36 hours

*d.48 hours

Cognitive Domain:Comprehension

Answer Location:Acute Stress Disorder
Question Type: MC

9. How many categories are used to characterize the clustering of previous symptoms for acute stress disorder?

a. 4

*b.3

c. 6

d. 7

Cognitive Domain:Knowledge

Answer Location:Acute Stress Disorder
Question Type: MC

10. What disorder can occur one month following the traumatic event and can last for a year or longer?

*a. Posttraumatic stress disorder

b. Acute stress disorder

c. Acute stress reaction

d. Trauma memory

Cognitive Domain:Comprehension

Answer Location: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Question Type: MC

True/False

1. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be relieved through intrusive, recurrent recollections, flashbacks, and nightmares.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain:Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location:Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Question Type: TF

2. Chronic PTSD can occur from one year after initial exposure of perceived trauma and becomes a chronic condition.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge orComprehension

Answer Location: Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Question Type: TF

3. 25% of persons exposed to an event perceived to be traumatic reach the stage of chronic PTSD.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain:Comprehension

Answer Location: Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Question Type: TF

4. The effectiveness of coping mechanisms for PTSD rests on the type of stressor, the individual, and the circumstances.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain:Knowledge

Answer Location: Coping and Resilience
Question Type: TF

5. The three stages for intervention among stress victims are immediate, acute, and chronic.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain:Knowledge

Answer Location:Practice Protocol for Emergency and Disaster Response

Question Type: TF

6. Stage 2 of the stages for interventions among stress victims is the immediate stage that is treated on the scene, in an emergency room, or at a stress trauma treatment center.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain:Knowledge

Answer Location:Practice Protocol for Emergency
Question Type: TF

7. Interventions at the ASR stage involve the psychological, neurological, proximity, immediacy, and expectation.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain:Comprehension

Answer Location: Intervention at the ASR stage
Question Type: TF

9. The five core principles guiding interventions efforts are a sense of safety, calming, a sense of self and community efficacy, connectedness, and hope.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location:The Six C’s Model First Responder’s Psychological First Aid
Question Type: TF

10.The objective of the Six C’s Activation model is restoration of normal functioning through several steps.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain:Comprehension

Answer Location: A Recommended Protocol for Immediate Group Interventions
Question Type: TF

Short Answer

Type: S

1. How is resilience defined?

a.Resilence is a dynamic process encompassing positive adaptation within the context of significant adversity.

Cognitive Domain:Comprehension

Answer Location:Coping and Resilience
Question Type: SA

Type: S

2.What are two of the diverse ways of coping with stress?

*a. Two of the diverse ways of coping with stress are emotion-focused coping and problem-focused coping.

Cognitive Domain:Knowledge

Answer Location:Coping and Resilience
Question Type: SA

Type: S

3. What are three major symptom clusters?

*a. Three major symptom clusters are: 1) acute stress reaction, 2) functional assessment of a client, and 3) assessment of the client’s hyperactivity.

Cognitive Domain:Knowledge

Answer Location: Micro Perspective: Perceived Psychological Trauma
Question Type: SA

Essay

Type: E

1. Explain the roles of first responders and social workers.

*a. First responders are professionals immediately responding to a traumatic event. Social workers are at the forefront of these interventions because of their core professional training on grief counseling and crisis intervention, their holistic strengths-based approaches, and sound practice values and ethics.

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Cognitive Domain:Knowledge

Answer Location:First Responders
Question Type: ESS

Type: E

2. Describe the acute stress reaction including three interventions.

*a. There are two main stages for intervention among stress victims. The first stage is the immediate stage which is the stage of the acute stress reaction. At this stage, the person is treated at the scene and various interventions are used. Three of the interventions used are: 1) Psychological: this is the earliest intervention aimed at reducing helplessness and increasing self-efficacy; 2) Neurological: It is aimed at decreasing dominance of the limbic lobe and increasing levels of prefrontal cortex activity; and 3) Proximity: the intervention takes place as the location relatively close to the site of the event.

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Cognitive Domain:Comprehension

Answer Location:Practice Protocol for Emergency and Disaster Response and Intervention at the ASR stage
Question Type: ESS

Type: E

3. What are the social work objectives at the mezzo level for stress victims?

*a. At the mezzo level of practice, the focus is on group interventions. Group intervention principles are similar to individual interventions. The group interventions save the professional work force from responding to the many immediate needs of victims. The objective of such group interventions is to restore the victim’s sense of familiarity and control and reduce disorientation through group dynamics.

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Cognitive Domain:Comprehension

Answer Location:Mezzo Level Practice: Group Interventions
Question Type: ESS