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Part I – Short Answer.
Please answer all of the following (5 Points Each)
- Briefly explain five critical supports that a rape victim may require in the aftermath of the assault.
- Define secondary victimization. Explain three things that you as a crisis worker can do to minimize or prevent secondary victimization of a rape victim?
- Explain five possible psychological/logistical factors that may characterize a battered woman’s situation.
- Explain three possible reasons why many battered women do not leave their abuser. Explain what you as a crisis worker can do when confronted with these reasons.
- Explain three defense mechanisms often used by an addict or alcoholic. Choose one of these and explain how you will respond to the addict who is using this mechanism.
- Recovering addicts and alcoholics need a relapse prevention plan. Explain the significance of this plan and give three examples of important features of such a plan.
- The text discusses several approaches to bereavement. Choose the model that you would use to help a client. Define the model and explain your preference.
- Explain why bereavement is different for a child than for an adult. Explain why bereavement is different for a teen than for an adult
- Identify and discuss three factors that can result in burnout for human service workers.
- You are a crisis team leader in your community. A massive storm is approaching. Power outages, communication outages, flooding, limited transportation and other disruptions are expected. Explain the three most important things you will do to prepare, and why they are important.
Part II - Essay
Please answer both of the following questions (25 Points Each).
- Many human service workers, and some law enforcement officers, can experience burnout, vicarious traumatization, or compassion fatigue. First, explain each of these terms. Then, explain three factors that contribute to these problems in the helping professions. Finally, discuss your chosen field. Why did you select this profession? What are the risks of burnout, vicarious traumatization and compassion fatigue? What will be your self-care strategy to prevent or minimize your vulnerability to these conditions?
- Allan is a 45-year old man with a drinking problem. He has been drinking since his teen years. He is employed, and married with three children, ages 10, 12, and 15. He has started to miss days of work due to excessive drinking. His 15 year old daughter has been caught drinking a few times. Her justification is “Dad does it.” His wife is ready to leave if Allan does not get help. Allan is meeting with you for the first time. He says he knows his drinking is a problem. He wants to stop but is afraid to try. He fears that if he stops he will become very isolated, as getting together and drinking with his friends is his main social activity.
- Develop treatment goals for Allan
- Develop a treatment plan for Allan.
- Develop a relapse prevention plan for Allan.
- Develop a family counseling plan for Allan and his family.
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1. Critical supports that a rape victim may require in the aftermath of the assault.
Intervene in the crisis and offer support, talk out the issue with the victim to get the whole
story. Get a counselling and support groups to help the victim come out of the trauma.
Advise them and direct them to seek legal information and advocacy. Provide educational
materials and courses that help the victim overcome the anxiety and trauma. Carry out
community outreach services to reach and console those who are victims
2. Definition of secondary victimization and ways to prevent secondary victimization of a
rape victim?
Secondary victimization is a re-traumatization of the sexual assault of the victim. This
results from the response behavior and attitude of the social service providers who seem to
blame the victim or who are insensitive of and traumatizing victims who have been raped.
It is the post assault behavior through language by the medical physicians, friends or
relatives making the victims to suffer the primary pain.
3. Explain five possible psychological/logistical factors that may characterize a battered
woman’s situation.
A battered woman suffers from a battered syndrome which results from domestic violence.
Such women show signs of depression, defeat, passive, they believe that they are helpless,
they feel hopeless. Such victims are characterized by being isolated from others, feeling of
guilt, having the behavior of emotional dependency.
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4. Why many battered women do not leave their abuser and how a crisis worker can do
when confronted with these reasons.
They believe that they cannot escape from the hands of their abuser, they develop a sense
of fear that even if they escape they will still be followed by their abuser. Secondly, they
always feel hindered by love, such women love their husbands so much that they feel if
they leave them they will lose their loved one. They also feel if they go they will be replaced
by another woman. Some believe being battered is a sign of love so they do not want to
lose. Thirdly, reluctance in law enforcement whereby the law does not take faster steps
once the victim reports. That makes the victim to feel she is not protected enough to leave
the abuser as he can still follow them up and batter them as well. The crisis worker can talk
to the patient and inform her the impacts of frequent battering to her brain. Moreover, give
guidance and counselling to the individual and direct the patient to the relevant authority
and help them to take the necessary measures against the abuser
5. Defense mechanisms often used by an addict or alcoholic
Denial-this is refusing to accept reality that an individual has a problem. They believe that
the addiction is not a problem. People use denial mechanism to a void feeling the painful
reality. They a...