You suspect a client is suicidal. What strategy you must employ to gauge their level of lethality?

What will be an ideal response?


Their therapist should determine whether (a) they have suicidal thoughts, (b) If they have a plan to commit suicide, and (c) they are at risk to carry out this plan. This is clearly a serious issue; if a person is suicidal they should be referred to a psychiatric facility.

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Which of the following is a principle of the Strengths Model?

a. Every individual, group, family, and community has strengths. b. Trauma and illness may be sources of challenge and opportunity. c. Social workers must take individual, group, and community aspirations seriously. d. People with psychiatric disabilities can learn, grow and change.

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When advocating for a group, it is generally best to use a variety of strategies

A) ?True B) ?False

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That individuals hold prejudicial attitudes because of their socialization is an example of:

a. a Marxian explanation of prejudice. b. a discounted theory. c. the normative-cultural explanation of prejudice. d. the frustration-aggression hypothesis of discrimination.

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Leaders are only effective when they retain the power and responsibility themselves

A) ?True B) ?False

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