Crisis Interventionist Analysis

Some events that have made it necessary for the training of crisis interventionist to shift focus, and shift into "high gear" are listed below.

The most important thing that I took away from this chapter is the overarching default task of ensuring safety, safety for the client as well as others and workers. This chapter did a good job on illustrating equilibrium; however I appreciated it stating that not all individuals had equilibrium before the crisis. This type of intervention is not too different from counseling because not all clients are ideal or perfect. This chapter also stressed the importance of assessment. From onset to resolution of the crisis, assessment is a continuous process. I learned that just because crisis appears on the surface to have been resolved, it should not be assumed that assessment is no longer

Crisis is defined as a precipitating event, followed by the perception of the event leading to anguish, next is the presence of reduced functioning of an individual which isn’t alleviated by normal coping mechanisms (Puleo & McGlothlin, 2014). There are many events an individual can experience that can lead to the inability to function such as hurricanes, fires, sexual assaults, suicides, or any other situation where immediate loss/assault has occurred. After a crisis occurs, a counselor has ethical/cultural considerations, responsibilities, and understandings of how to assess the individual following a crisis.

Caplan viewed crisis as, “a state resulting from impediments to life goals that cannot be overcome through customary behaviors” (cite). According to the authors, these “impediments” can come from both situational and developmental events. Both Caplan and Lindemann dealt with crisis intervention following the trauma using an equilibrium/disequilibrium paradigm (cite). The stages in Lindemann’s paradigm are 1) disturbed equilibrium, 2) brief therapy or grief work, 3) client’s working through the problem or grief, and 4) restoration of equilibrium (Janosik, 1984 pp. 10 – 12). Together, Lindemann and Caplan gave motivation to use the crisis intervention strategies in counseling and brief therapy with people and their reactions to trauma (cite). According to the authors, the basic crisis theory focuses on, “helping people in crisis recognize and correct temporary affective, behavioral, and cognitive distortions brought on by traumatic

Bard and Ellison, 1974 cited in Maclean et al., (2015:211) states that crisis is known as “a subjective reaction to a stressful life experience, one so affecting the stability of the individual that the ability to cope or function may be seriously compromised.” The research outlined that there are three stages of crisis, such as the beginning, middle, and end, Golan 1974; Coulshed and Orme, 1998. Golan, 1974 cited in Maclean et al., 2015:212, illustrated that at the beginning stage of crisis, it is important for a social worker to understand the emotional responses shown by the service users and that the values they bring can impact the relationship with service users. In the second stage, social workers must have a structural approach in place for service users to make a plan to respond to the crisis. In the final stage, social workers must recede in service user intervention. At this stage service user must be able to manage their own crisis with no form of intervention from a worker, even though their emotional responses may still be strongly felt.

The purpose of this study is to analyze crisis counseling and ways of intervening to reduce emotional pain, provide emotional support, ensure that the person in crisis is safe as well as help the person develop a personal plan for coping with the situation. There are six major emotional crises that need to be addressed and they include dispositional, anticipated life transitions, traumatic stress, maturational or developmental, psychopathology and psychiatric Emergencies. There are a variety of ways to deal with crisis counseling for instance intervening immediately; reflecting on the client’s feelings, not encouraging or supporting blame, encouraging self-reliance among others. This paper also presents the challenges faced in crises counseling.

Events that lead to a crisis seem to happen all the time. This hold true no matter if you are an elderly woman a young boy, or anywhere in between. Individuals face crises just and families face crises; and when a member of a family unit faces a crisis many times it will be felt by the entire family. The need for proper crisis intervention is essential for the healthy functioning of the individual and the family unit (Kanel, 2014).

The advantages of having a multidisciplinary community team when engaging in crisis intervention are numerous. A multidisciplinary team, as defined in our lecture, should consist of mental health professionals, clergy, peers, and individuals who have experienced losses and trauma themselves. Two main benefits of having this type of diverse crisis intervention team could be: 1) the quality of care that can be provided to those being cared for, and 2) the quantity of care that can be provided.

Cultural awareness and sensitivity play a critical role in crisis intervention. It is so important suggests Kanal (2011) that many psychology-based degree programs and certification programs have included these trainings to ensure that the professional has the basic tools and skills needed to support different people and groups. People from different backgrounds deal with events differently because each cultural has their own unique set of lenses they look at the world through; in addition, there are many cultures who do not believe in physiological support and/or find value in it. Also important to note that there are psychological issues that is not exclusive to certain people groups and are more common in others. The author also introduces

It’s only noon and already, Linda has had to take a patient off of life support and prep another for a transplant. Because her patients need her, she cannot stop for a second to grieve. Linda is not unlike many other nurses, who don’t stop to eat lunch or go to the bathroom, much less grieve for the loss of a patient. All too often, nurses experience compassion fatigue, which presents itself as exhaustion and dysfunction in multiple aspects of their lives. A few nurses in the NSICU at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania joined forces to figure out a plan to prevent the accumulation of stress through one simple action: collaboration. Some of these nurses then attended a free Crisis Intervention course designed for nurses and other emergency responders, and with this information, they put together a step-by-step process to assist colleagues in coping with stress. By

A crisis refers not just to a traumatic event or experience, but to an individual's response to the situation. The events that trigger this crisis can run the gamut of life experience, from developmental hurdles (such as going through puberty) to natural disasters to the death of a loved one. Crisis counseling is an intervention that can help individuals deal with the crisis by offering assistance and support.

John a 42-year-old Caucasian male and is Gunnery Sargent in the United States Marine Corps. He has served for 18 years as a Motor Transport Maintenance Chief and has deployed five times. He and his family, Mary, Dean, and Sam sought treatment about one year ago after John’s company commander mandated he attend counseling following a period of excessive drinking, poor work performance, erratic behavior, and John having to be physically removed from on post housing by the Military Police following an altercation with his son Dean in the front yard.

When the person’s coping skills and other methods do not work, the individual enters into crisis. Crisis causes a person to feel disorganized, lack equilibrium, helpless, confused, in adequate, etc. In crisis response it is important to help a person who is in a state of crisis to quickly find stability to lessen the impact of the effects of the trauma. This stabilization is critical in the early stages of crisis. If stability is not quickly found it can have very negative and long-term effects on the victim of crisis, even possible secondary trauma or suicidal idealizations, which can result in death.

Although not everyone that comes across a stressor in life will experience a crisis, some are unable to cope with the stressor in a healthy manner and eventually succumb to a crisis. If this person does not receive the adequate crisis intervention during this state, he or she is likely to be unable to function at the level he or she had been functioning before the crisis. This will inevitably lead to additional crisis scenarios for every stressor they must face in life. “This pattern can go on for many years until the person’s ego is completely drained of its capacity to deal with reality; often

To develop rapport with the teacher and students involved in the California State University lockdown on December 12, 2012, I would first allow the client(s) to tell their story. While the client(s) discusses the issue at hand, I would actively listen by giving my undivided attention and maintaining appropriate eye contact. To gain further insight of client(s) feelings and thoughts of the lockdown, I would as open-ended questions such as the following: “What were your feelings towards the lockdown at that time” , “What are your feelings towards the individual who cause the lockdown”, or “What are your current feelings towards the event ?” While