Final Exam

Question 1

The rape trauma syndrome.

Answer 1

• refers to the acute phase and long-term reorganization process that occurs as a result of forcible rape.
• acute phase: lasts several weeks after the rape, victims experience physical trauma from the rape, an elevated startle reaction, gastrointestinal disturbances, and intense fear and self-blame.
• long-term phase: victims experience disorganization and go through “reorganization process”, marked by increased motor activity and nightmares.

Question 2

Munchausen by proxy syndrome.

Answer 2

• aka Factitious disorder by proxy

- the patients fabricate and/or induces his own symptoms and presents himself for treatment.

Question 3

physical child abuse

Answer 3

anything that may cause physical injury

Question 4

emotional child abuse

Answer 4

any behavior that impairs a child’s emotional development or sense of self-esteem and includes constant criticism or rejection

Question 5

sexual child abuse

Answer 5

includes indecent toughing, rape, voyeurism, pornography, and forced prostitution (8% of perpetrators are parents)

Question 6

infanticide

Answer 6

• the deliberate killing of a newborn and is common in many countries

Question 7

5 traits exhibited by mothers who commit infanticide

Answer 7

detachment from their own mothers, suicidal thoughts, feelings of personal inadequacy, actual mental illness, feeling child is defective

Question 8

types of alternative intervention: Mental health courts

Answer 8

strive to reduce the incarceration and recidivism of people with mental illness. Break the cycle of mental deterioration and criminal behavior that begins with the failure of the community mental health system.

Question 9

types of alternative intervention: alternative dispute resolution

Answer 9

differs fundamentally from the adversarial system in that is seeks a mutually satisfactory process rather than victory of one side over the other. Negotiation, mediation, & arbitration

Question 10

victims of domestic violence

Answer 10

traditional housing programs, health care provider interventions, legal advocacy programs

Question 11

victims of violent crime

Answer 11

emergency response at the time of the crisis, victim stabilization in the days following the trauma, and resource mobilization in the aftermath of the crime.

Question 12

treatments for PTSD in prison: exposure and desensitization

Answer 12

eye movement desensitization and reprocessing clients simultaneously focus on both the traumatic material and an external stimulus using quick movements of the eye.

Question 13

treatments for PTSD in prison: automatic incident reduction

Answer 13

a sensitization procedure using repetitive guided imagery of the traumatic event.

Question 14

repressed memory syndrome

Answer 14

Involves forgetting a painful experience that can then be remembered through a therapeutic intervention

Question 15

Stockholm syndrome

Answer 15

Hostages form an identification with their captors who had terrorized them. (ex battered wife syndrome)

Question 16

Battered woman syndrome

Answer 16

The BWS denotes a set of distinct psychological and behavior symptoms that result from prolonged exposure to situations of intimate partner violence and present in 3 separate stages: the tension-building stage, the acute battering stage, and contrite and loving behavior stage

Question 17

self-defency vs insanity

Answer 17

• a claim of “self-defense” means that the woman was justified in killing an abusive partner to prevent imminent death or extreme bodily harm.
• a claim of “insanity” means that the woman was not able to distinguish right from wrong or to conform her behavior to the law due to a mental disorder.

Question 18

child neglect

Answer 18

• is demonstrated by a failure to provide for a child’s basic needs.
• may also include failure to educate a child or attend to special education or emotional needs.

Question 19

online sexual predators

Answer 19

• by being kind to children online, they often devote considerable amounts of time, money, and energy in their efforts by knowing the latest music, hobbies, and interests of children
• sexual content is slowly introduced into the context of conversations after children’s trust has been obtained and their inhibitions are lowered.

Question 20

Honor killings

Answer 20

• actus of murder in which a woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior. Victims of honor killings do not accept their family’s tribal or Islamic traditions, refuse forced marriages, and live independently.

Question 21

Elder abuse

Answer 21

• defined as any knowing, intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver or any other person that causes harm to a vulnerable adult.

Question 22

Effects on survivors of a terrorist attack

Answer 22

• most distressing effect on survivors is the shattering of their fundamental beliefs about themselves, the world, and other people. Survivors may have frequent nightmares of the imagined horrifying death of a victim they have known, or wish-fulfillment fantasies of rescuing the victim.

Question 23

When recalled information is a distortion of an actual experience, it is classified as a/an ___________.

Answer 23

false memory

Question 24

When recalled information has unconsciously emerged as a factual account but really is not, it is classified as a/an __________.

Answer 24

confabulation

Question 25

When recalled information is accurate except that the origin is misattributed, it is classified as a/an __________.

Answer 25

source memory failure

Question 26

When distressing thoughts, memories, or impulses are excluded from consciousness, a person is experiencing a __________.

Answer 26

repressed memory

Question 27

The long-term reorganization process that occurs as a result of victims’ disorganized thinking, increased motor activity, and nightmares, is categorized as the _________ syndrome

Answer 27

rape trauma

Question 28

The condition in which an individual fabricates and/or induces his own symptoms is known as the ___________ syndrome.

Answer 28

Munchausen by proxy