Exam 10: Dealing With Crises and Critical Issues

Students dealing with the terminal illness of a family member go through a long, protracted series of stages. What is the second stage?

Which of the following is a suicide prevention resource?

Students should be encouraged to ask questions when they are informed of a classmate's death.

Young people engage in self-injury:

Which of the following is true of preparatory grief?

What special role does a teacher play in the life of a terminally ill child?

Identify three reasons why youth intentionally injure themselves.

When a fellow student dies, it is important:

What needs did Butler find that children have with regards to death?

After a family member is diagnosed with a terminal illness, family members go through a long protracted series of stages. Identify these stages.

People who talk about killing themselves rarely do it.

The point of death education is to:

Describe how preschool-age children typically see death.

How can losing a parent as a teenager be particularly problematic?

Terminally ill children experience lower stress and anxiety levels when family and medical personnel are open with them about their illness.

Identify the five preparatory grief stages a terminally ill individual can pass through.

Boys are more likely to die from suicide than are girls. In the 10- to 24-year-old group, 81% of suicide deaths are male.

Identify four or more suicide prevention strategies that schools and communities can implement to counter suicide among students.

Death practices among African Americans:

The most frequently used method in suicides of young people is poisoning.