Crisis Flashcards
(13 cards)
What is a crisis state?
A crisis state is formed by a precipitating event, perception as threatening, emotional distress, impairment in functioning, and failure to use coping methods.
Key components include the initial event and the individual’s perception and response to it.
What is the formula for understanding the process of crisis formation?
Precipitating event → Perception → Emotional distress → Lowered functioning when coping fails.
This formula outlines the sequence of events leading to a crisis.
How can functioning be increased during a crisis?
Change in perception of precipitating event, acquiring new coping skills → Decrease in emotional distress → Increase in functioning.
Adjusting perception and enhancing coping abilities are critical for recovery.
What are the two aspects of crisis as both danger and opportunity?
- Opportunity: Growth, insight, better coping skills, higher level of functioning, better preparation for future stresses
- Danger: Lower level of functioning via defense mechanisms or nonfunctioning, e.g., suicide, homicide, psychosis.
The outcome of a crisis heavily depends on the support available to the individual.
What characterizes a crisis-prone person?
No help when in crisis, uses ego strength to defend rather than manage reality, unprepared to manage future stresses.
This often leads to personality disorders and chronic depression.
What are the determinants that influence crisis states?
- Material resources
- Personal resources
- Ego strength
- Social resources
These factors can either contribute to or mitigate the effects of a crisis.
What is the difference between developmental crises and situational crises?
Developmental crises are normal transitional phases, while situational crises have sudden onset and are unexpected emergencies.
Perception plays a key role in both types of crises.
What does the curvilinear model of anxiety describe?
- Low anxiety: Low motivation, inertia
- Moderate anxiety: Highest level of performance, optimal motivation
- High anxiety: Overwhelming paralysis.
This model illustrates how anxiety levels can impact performance and functioning.
What was the Wellesley Project focused on?
Communitywide mental health programs following events like the Coconut Grove Fire and the impacts of WWII.
It aimed at preventive psychiatry and addressed grief work related to various societal traumas.
What are Caplan’s seven characteristics of effective coping behavior?
- Explore reality, search for information
- Freely express feelings, tolerate frustration
- Seek help from others
- Work through problems bit by bit
- Pace coping, be aware of fatigue
- Be flexible and willing to change
- Trust in oneself and others, optimism.
These characteristics are essential for effective coping during crises.
What is the focus of brief therapy in contrast to crisis intervention?
Brief therapy focuses on changing patterns, not on increasing functioning.
It is based on psychoanalytic principles and is distinct from crisis intervention.
What is the ABC Model of Crisis Intervention?
It uses the formulas regarding what leads to a crisis state and what leads to increased functioning.
This model helps practitioners understand and address crises effectively.
True or False: Stress and crisis are synonymous.
False.
Stress can often be managed, whereas a crisis typically indicates a failure in coping mechanisms.
