Q&A Hero

Q: Which statement best describes the depressed hostage taker? a. Has a false system of beliefs with hallucinations and delusions. b. Confused and unable to make a decision, with generally reduced energy and affect. c. Narcissistic, attention-seeking. d. Conflicts with society, blames others, is concerned only for him-/herself.

Q: Based in psychoanalytic theory, masochism has much to say about why battering happens.

Q: Which of the following is not a disowned statement? a. Based on my own experience in this work I would say if you keep doing that you are putting yourself at grave risk. b. We believe if you keep doing that you are putting yourself at grave risk. c. Research indicates if you keep doing that you will put yourself at grave risk. d. Don" t you think if you keep doing that you will be putting yourself at grave risk?

Q: Immediately after their release hostages should be a. allowed to rest and obtain food and drink. b. given psychotropic medication to calm them down while they are debriefed. c. carefully allowed to be interviewed by the media so that catharsis may occur. d. told who their hostage takers were so the Stockholm syndrome can be extinguished.

Q: Once a woman decides to leave the battering relationship, comes to an abuse shelter, and regains some psychological equilibrium, the crisis worker's first job is to provide immediate practical advice on such issues as finding a place to live, child care, financial aid, etc.

Q: "I want you to stop swearing or I will end this session." Is a. a disowned statement. c. a limit setting statement. b. a distancing statement. d. an intolerant statement.

Q: Of the following, which is nottrue of hostage takers? a. They have reached an acute level of frustration. b. They are attempting to problem-solve. c. They want to harm the hostage so as to show the world they mean business. d. They are seeking attention.

Q: Intake interviews for women who are battered are best done in a hospital or police station with the batterer present so the assaulted person can feel safe and secure in naming the perpetrator.

Q: An owning statement most generally starts with the pronoun a. I b. You c. We d. They

Q: Post-incident interviews and CISD are essentially the same procedure.

Q: There is little domestic violence in homosexual relationships.

Q: An owning statement does which of the following a. Puts responsibility directly on the client to respond. b. Allows the worker to safely cathart about his or her own issues. c. Uses positive reinforcement to approximate a client towards a larger goal. d. none of the above define what an owning statement is.

Q: The taking of hostages really simply boils down to attention-seeking behavior by the takers.

Q: There is evidence that psychopathology and neurophysiological disorders play a part in the reason some perpetrators batter.

Q: Relational markers are a. stop signs for reflective statements. b. points to remember to make restatements. c. shorten the psychological distance between the worker and the client. d. owning statements that help bond the relationship.

Q: Post incident debriefing includes giving people a warm receptions and assuring them they acted properly and their symptoms are common.

Q: Learned helplessness proposes that women stay in abusive relationships because they have been conditioned to believe they cannot predict their own safety and nothing they do will change the situation.

Q: If the client said, "I feel like I am in a giant vice that squeezing my sides in on me, and a huge weight is on my head pressing me down." A worker restatement of the client's content message would best be a. "It all goes back to your mother putting pressure on you to succeed." b. "So you sound like you are really in need of some relaxation techniques." c. " There appears there is no direction you can go that will give you some relief." d. both a and c.

Q: The S.A.F.E. model is the default protocol for armed intervention after a hostage has been harmed.

Q: Nested ecological theory proposes that no single factor effectively explains battering.

Q: Closed questions are used to do all but the following. a. obtain a commitment c. increase focus b. encourage expansion d. both a and c.

Q: REACT is a hostage negotiation task model that starts with the recognition of the conditions needed to make an incident negotiable and ends with what will happen after a surrender is made. .

Q: Male supremacy is the keystone dynamic of most battering.

Q: Closed questions typically start with a. Have you b. When will you c. Does it d. All are closed

Q: The first thing to do in a hostage situation is to determine who the hostages are and what is happening to them. .

Q: Battering is a phenomenon closely associated with the lower socio-economic class.

Q: Open ended questions do all but the following. a. request description c. focus on plans b. garner specific ,concrete data d. provide for assessment

Q: If you are a hostage one ploy is to attempt to strike up a conversation so that the Stockholm Syndrome can develop.

Q: There are legal precedents that condone spouse abuse.

Q: Communicating genuineness means letting clients see who you are by sharing components of yourself through self-disclosure.

Q: If put in the role of negotiator, you will likely be able to promise that the cops won"t storm the building.

Q: Researchers have found that adult male survivors of child sexual abuse who were abused by men fair no better and report the same or similar symptoms as adult women survivors. In addition, they often a. have unfounded paranoid fears of male or transgendered sexual assault. b. abuse alcohol and drugs. c. are homophobic, have body image disturbances, and sexual orientation ambiguity. d. act aggressively towards women in order to prove themselves.

Q: Directive counseling is culturally judgmental and demeaning and should not be used in crisis intervention.

Q: Police departments who use mental health professionals as consultants have more hostage situations end by negotiated surrender rather than tactical assault.

Q: Complicating effects that have contributed to an increase in rape are a. acceptance of violence in the media. b. genetic regression. c. the sexual revolution. d. None of the above have to do with an increase in rape.

Q: Silence is also golden at times in crisis counseling.

Q: Crisis intervention techniques are at the core of hostage negotiation.

Q: Of the following behaviors that will help a crisis worker know whether a child is being sexually abused which does not belong? The sexually abused child may: a. come to school early and stay late. b. act out by hurting oneself rather than other children. c. be hypervigilent of others and surroundings. d. be sexually shy and appear ignorant of sexual matters.

Q: One way in which a crisis worker may determine whether the client fully understands a commitment is to ask the client to summarize the action steps that he or she plans to take.

Q: Crisis intervention and hostage negotiation often go hand-in-hand.

Q: Support groups are important for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse because they a. can try out new behaviors and discuss them with peers. b. allow for reconciliation between the victim and the abuser. c. help with dependency needs. d. destroy old pathological scripts and replace them with new healthy ones.

Q: Monitoring and assessing body language is an as important as monitoring and assessing verbal responses in crisis work.

Q: The crisis stage of a hostage taking is the most critical because it sets the tone for the remainder of the situation.

Q: An intrusive but effective method for extinguishing PTSD in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse is______ of the event. a. psychoanalytic processing b. behavioral conditioning and desensitization c. prolonged exposure through flooding and cognitive restructuring d. All of the above will work depending on the client.

Q: Distancing is a technique the worker can employ to step back and more objectively view the client's dilemma.

Q: Aggrieved or wronged hostage takers are typically the type the human service worker is most likely to run into.

Q: "Grounding" childhood sexual abuse survivors means they a. are "in the wind" psychologically and literally need a place to land. b. need a "spot of safety" to go to. c. are using a talisman such as a coin to touch d. all of the above have to do with grounding.

Q: Sympathy and empathy are essentially the same thing except sympathy uses more worker owning statements to convey feelings.

Q: Instrumental-type hostage takers are what the human service worker is likely to encounter.

Q: If you had just been raped and were at the hospital you would want a _______ as a first responder. . a. SANE nurse b. licensed clinical social worker c. medical doctor d. RAPE nurse

Q: Communicating empathically means focusing exclusively on the accurate reflection of the content of verbal messages and not trying to guess at underlying meanings.

Q: The S.A.F.E. is a communications model that can be interfaced with the REACT task model of crisis negotiation.

Q: The "false memory" concept applied both to work with adults who were abused as children and to perpetrators of abuse has a. proven that false memories as a concept are valid. b. proven that false memories as a concept are invalid. c. much to do with the interviewer, the way particular questions are asked, the context of the setting, and the emotional state of the client d. more to do with unresolved Electra and Oedipal complexes.

Q: As odd and paradoxical as it may seem, expansion and focusing strategies may both be helpful in crisis intervention.

Q: In a hostage situation, the first thing that needs to be done is to determine who the hostage taker is and obtain a profile.

Q: Regarding the suppression phase in which an attempt is made to keep secret the child sexual abuser's molestation, the suppression may be attempted by a. the abuser. b. the child's parents or family members. c. professionals, the institution, or the community. d. suppression may be attempted by any or all of the above.

Q: Allowing clients to cathart about the issue only compounds the crisis.

Q: The Stockholm Syndrome is created when the hostage taker falls in love with his or her victim.

Q: Adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse may have a. been hospitalized for a variety of psychological disorders. b. symptoms that are quite different than those of Vietnam veterans. c. suffered increased incidence of rape, assault, and battering as adults because they actively seek out such relationships as a way of punishing themselves for their "sins" of childhood. d. decided to become homosexuals because they can no longer stand the opposite sex.

Q: An important aspect of listening is to respond in ways that let the client know that the worker is hearing both the content and underlying emotional content.

Q: The behavioral dynamics of battered women and hostages after their escape are much alike. (p. 588, 589)

Q: Researchers have found that added physical violence during the rape of children was predictive of ___________ when they reached adulthood a. increased false memories. b. chronic PTSD and early psychological and behavioral problems. c. legitimized violence for them in their adult sexual relationships. d. females who grew up to be aggressive and became sexual abusers themselves.

Q: A good owning statement may mean setting limits on disruptive and demeaning client behavior.

Q: The alarm stage of a hostage taking is usually the calmest because the hostage takers wish to keep the hostages under control.

Q: Regarding the disclosure phase in which the child sexual abuser's molestation is accidentally discovered, sometimes the abuse is disclosed by the child or someone else and intentional disclosure enormously complicates crisis intervention related to the abuse because a. the abuser was also a victim during childhood. b. the disclosure phase itself is characterized by myth. c. parents or significant others are in denial, refuse to face it, and don't believe the facts. d. most therapists have little knowledge in this area and abhor the work.

Q: A good owning statement may mean making a value judgment about a client's behavior.

Q: Negotiators do best when they can establish a continuous state of interdependence between themselves and the hostage takers.

Q: The recommended treatment of choice for sexually abused children is a. Gestalt therapy. b. psychoanalytic. c. play therapy. d. psycho-education about abusers.

Q: Owning feeling is probably more important in crisis intervention because of the need to be directive.

Q: With psychotic or emotionally disturbed individuals, a rational, calm, cool, and collected problem-solving style of negotiating is best.

Q: In the immediate aftermath of an assault and rape of an adult, the crisis worker's response to the survivor should be a. providing core facilitative conditions of trust, empathy, and unconditional positive regard. b. providing factual information about disease, pregnancy, and other health issues. c. preparing the survivor to make a police report. d. all of the above should be incorporated in the immediate aftermath

Q: A statement starting with "We" is an excellent way to collaboratively own feelings.

Q: Expressive behavior in hostage taking has to do with weak individuals becoming powerful by taking hostages.

Q: The behavior of the child abuser may be traced through phases of a. secrecy, suppression, sexual interaction, and fulfillment. b. threat, coercion, sexual interaction, and termination. c. engagement, sexual interaction, secrecy, disclosure, and suppression. d. invitation, acceptance, acknowledgement, sexual interaction, repression, and termination.

Q: Close-ended questions in crisis intervention are generally inappropriate.

Q: Instrumental behavior in hostage taking has some recognizable goal such as escape from a crime scene.

Q: Of the following, which is not a myth about rape? a. Only promiscuous women get raped. b. Men who rape are weird, psychotic loners. c. Women cry rape to exact revenge. d. All of the above are myths.

Q: Closed ended questions should never be used because they are highly intrusive and aggressive sounding and could shut off communication.

Q: Political terrorists account for the largest majority of hostage situations in the United States.

Q: The female victim of rape may a. act promiscuously. B. become vindictive to significant others who have let her down. c. appear unaffected. d. both a and b are strong possibilities.