When working with actively suicidal clients:
A. Clinicians should focus on the positive things that are going on in the clients’ life and distract clients from talking about the negatives and hardships they face.
B. Clinicians should not ask clients directly about possible suicidal intention because it could trigger suicidal behaviors by bringing up the topic.
C. Clinicians should use empirically supported assessment tools to assess for risk factors, warning signs and protective factors.
D. Clinicians should leave the client in the room and immediately get the advice of a supervisor or consultant.
ANS: C
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__________ the group, including the specification of norms and procedures, should be accomplished early in the group's history
a. Structuring b. Closing c. Modeling d. Terminating
Use the data from Exhibit 6-2. If the national mean is 25, and the standard deviation is 8, who has done better: the graduate program or the national group?
What will be an ideal response?
Until recently, what was one of the only offered explanations for perpetration of CSA?
a. deviant sexual arousal b. deficiency in social skills c. cognitive problems d. biological disposition