1. Why does a crisis worker need to have a thorough knowledge of the risk factors that suicidal/homicidal clients might portray? In your response, list several of the risk factors that are considered most serious in times of the client’s vulnerability to lethality.2. Walker’s theory of learned helplessness has been hotly debated.Walker sees it as a sophisticated coping mechanism that allowswomen to survive a potentially lethal relationship while manyfeminists see it as demeaning of women in that they fit into thestereotype of “helpless females.” Take a position for or againstlearned helplessness in battering relationships.3. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing(EMDR)Assume EMDR does have potential to work. Why then do you thinkthere is so much resistance to it? Is this any different than theviews of new and unexplained phenomena in other fields?
