Situational crisis is provoked by external sources such as...

• A. Internal conflicts.
• B. External events like a job change, motor vehicle crash, death, or severe illness.
• C. Existential questions about purpose.
• D. A chemical imbalance.

Answer: (B)

Situational crisis is triggered by external events that disrupt a person’s life and overwhelm their usual coping resources. The examples—job change, motor vehicle crash, death, and severe illness—show how an outside circumstance can suddenly overwhelm someone’s ability to cope and require a focused crisis response to stabilize and restore functioning.

That’s why this option best fits. The other ideas describe different kinds of challenges: internal conflicts are rooted in inner processes, not an external event; existential questions about purpose deal with meaning rather than a concrete external trigger; and a chemical imbalance points to biological factors rather than an identifiable external precipitating event.