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Psychologist Post-Test

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Questions:

1. What are two types of guilt?
2. What are three types of relationships reviewed in the Relationship Inventory technique?
3. What are the four basic reasons grieving trauma survivors experience feelings of isolation?
4. What are three assumptions clients may be forced to reconsider?
5. What are the five basic types of secondary wounding experiences?
6. What are the three critical steps in creating healing self-statements? 
7. What are three major physiological aspects of grief?

Answers:

A. They are difficulty participating in social gatherings, perceived outcast status, blaming the victim, and the "Just World" philosophy.
B. Three assumptions are the loss of invulnerability, the loss of an orderly world, and the loss of a positive self-image. . 
C. They are the mind-body connection, acute stress reactions, and emotional triggers.
D. The three types of relationships are pre-trauma relationships, relationships during the trauma, and post-trauma relationships.  
E. Unrealistic Guilt and Realistic Guilt
F. They are considering grief neutrally, identifying needs, and identifying strengths.  
G. They are disbelief, discounting, ignorance, labeling, and cruelty.


Questions:

8. What debriefing method conducted in groups gained currency during WWII and includes questions such as "What were the first thoughts that raced through your mind at the time of the crisis?" 
9. What two categories organize symptomatic responses to traumatic events?
10. What were parents most often worried about who were concerned that overprotectiveness is a problem? 
11. What are the six "R" processes of mourning? 
12. What statistic supported the idea that not only is the tangible benefit of grief therapy small, but its risk of producing iatrogenic worsening of problems is unacceptably high? 
13. What is the difference between loss-oriented coping and restoration-oriented coping?
14. What should the therapist do if the patient requests an unknown song? 

Answers:

A. The therapist might say, "Tell me about why this song means so much to you." Some patients find reassurance and comfort by teaching the melody to the therapist.
B. Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
C. The two categories organize symptomatic responses to traumatic events are intrusion and denial responses
D. retarding a child's psychosocial maturation 
E. Loss-oriented coping involves focusing on and processing aspects of the loss (e.g., visiting the grave, looking at photographs, emoting related to the death), while restoration-oriented coping involves focusing on the secondary Stressors that must be dealt with (e.g., financial problems) and determining how to tackle them (e.g., selling one's house).
F. Six "R" processes of mourning are (a) recognize the loss, (b) react to the separation, (c) recollect and reexperience the deceased and the relationship, (d) relinquish the old attachments to the deceased and the old assumptive world, (e) readjust to move adaptively into the new world without forgetting the old, and (f) reinvest.
G. 38% of recipients of grief counseling theoretically would have fared better if assigned to the no-treatment condition; in strong contrast, only 5% of clients in a broad range of psychotherapies for other problems showed such deterioration.

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