Training Module on the Right to Mental Health for the Security Sector 4. Anger management aims to reduce your emotional feelings and physiological arousal that anger causes. TRUE regarding anger management: A. Studies show that calm words or phrases such as “Relax,” and “Take it easy,” do not work anymore for someone who is in rage. Repeating these words and phrases to yourself will further aggravate your rage. B. Using silly humor can further aggravate anger. Making fun of a workmate you are angry at in your mind is unfair. C. A working mother who imposes a standing rule that when she comes home from work, nobody talks to her for the first 15 minutes unless the house is on fire is a poor way of dealing with anger. D. If your child’s chaotic room makes you furious every time you walk by it, you shut the door. Do not make yourself look at what infuriates you. E. A and C 5. A number of diagnosable psychiatric syndromes may be seen following criminal assault. TRUE regarding common psychiatric disorders following criminal assault EXCEPT: A. Depression will likely be exacerbated by criminal victimization. The sense of helplessness and hopelessness that characterizes the cognitive component of depression may come to assimilate the ruminations about the crime. B. Individuals with schizophrenia are at extremely high risk for criminal victimization and are also highly likely to be arrested, usually for misdemeanor crimes such as vagrancy, panhandling, public urination, shoplifting, etc. C. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is defined as a reaction to the traumatic stress that occurs within 4 weeks of the index trauma. It also includes symptoms of reexperiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal. D. In severe cases of alcohol withdrawal, this can be accompanied by hallucinations and/or seizures. An acute state of agitated delirium, characterized by intense fear and tactile and visual hallucinations. E. None of the above. 6. Malingering is defined as the conscious and intentional simulation of illness or impairment for the purpose of obtaining financial compensation or other reward; evading duty, responsibility, or obligation. TRUE regarding malingering: A. In Fabrication, symptoms are perfect “textbook” replicas of the real syndromes. Symptoms are typical, consistent, and usual. B. The client has symptoms or impairments that preceded, postdated, or are otherwise unrelated to the criminal assault, but he fraudulently attributes them to that event. This is the most common form of malingering. C. A form of malingering is when the client experienced real symptoms or impairments caused by the injury, and as these symptoms worsened, he falsely represented them as continuing unabated. D. In exaggeration, the client has real symptoms or impairments caused by the injury but represents them to be far worse than they really are. E. All of the above. 7. In many cases of violence, the subject is armed. These are the recommendations that may apply on how to deal with the situation EXCEPT: A. The first thing to do is to tell the subject to drop the gun or weapon. B. Try to appear calm, but not cocky, not intimidating, or argumentative. 63