Essays on Crisis Intervention

There is a general feeling among scholars that crises are important aspects when working with people with distress and difficulties in life (Kaplan & Girard, 1994). A crisis is defined as a turning point with a situation that pushes the usual coping mechanisms in people beyond their effectiveness limits and necessitates different responses as well as a different coping strategy. Crisis intervention is defined as an approach premised on the fact that crises play a critical role for situational aspects that help individuals in various situations. This is approach is best exemplified by a situation where the health worker analyses ...

Very often the good intentions of the crisis manager may end in completely opposite consequences. Because, the interventions are made without considering the nature and sensitivity of the victims. There are always limits to the extent to which interventions can be provided, and it is important to understand this. The culture of the person, can influence the way in which they interpret these intervention measures. Thus, it would be ideal to have a basic cultural awareness, before planning crisis intervention for the group. A person’s culture, can influence the way they perceive stress, threats, healing and the reaction ...

(Author Name) (Course Name/Number) One of the most critical components of crisis intervention is first building a rapport with the client. This can be accomplished by maintaining an attitude of cultural competence, open-mindedness, and attentively listening to the concerns of your client. This means that, not only do you have to hear what they are saying, but you must be able to understand their feelings as they pertain to their person situation. Trying to envision yourself in the shoes of someone else is called empathy, and it is a far cry from feelings of pity or sympathy, but even ...

Crisis intervention is an important psychological care that is aimed at helping a person during a stressful situation in an effort of restoring the biopsychosocial equilibrium functioning and minimize the associated trauma. It is thus, important for counselors to determine the best appropriate approaches when dealing with clients facing difficult situations and it is helpful to have a working framework. Ranking the five crisis intervention counseling models the equilibrium model comes first followed by the cognitive, psychological, developmental-ecological and the contextual ecological model should come last (Myer, Lewis & James, 2013). In that order, the models follow each other accordingly ...

The Alabama hostage crisis started on January 29, 2013 and lasted for 6 days, ending on February 4, 2013. During the crisis, 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, a Vietnam veteran, boarded a school bus and demanded that two children, preferably boys aged 6-10 years old, went with him (Phillips, n.d.). In the note he passed to the driver, Charles Poland, Dykes insisted that children would not be hurt and that he needed “two hostages to force the powers that be to listen” (Phillips, n.d.). As a result, he kidnapped 5-year-old Ethan Gilman and took him to the 6x8-ft underground bunker ...

This idea is perfectly illustrated in the video from TED talks «Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend». Information presented in this video will dramatically alternate the methods used by crisis counselors and psychologists due to the fact that it can be considered as a great breakthrough in functionality of a human body. In short, Kelly McGonigal conveys the message that it does not matter what influences people’s minds and bodies but in what way they react to these irritants (McGonigal, 2016). Before this study, crisis counselors advised their clients to avoid stresses in any form, but ...

Abstract.

Crisis Counseling is an activity that is directed at restoring normalcy to human psychological feeling. Crises are numerous and they are experienced frequently in everyday life. Since it’s something that is part of human life, finding out a plan that will minimize effects is the most modest thing for people to do. Furthermore, crisis may arise from natural disasters over which human beings have no control over. Perfecting the skills and procedures of reducing the effects of crisis will bring more benefits to humanity.

Introduction

A crisis, if looked at from a wider perspective, does not only refer to ...

The interview is about critical incident crisis management among children. A critical incident refers to an event or series of events that threatened human welfare and potentially results in loss of human life or life-threatening injury or illness. Accordingly, critical incident crisis management among children refers to measures and protocols aimed at enabling the children that are impacted by critical incidents to cope up with the crisis with the objective of restoring them to their initial functioning (European Interagency Security Forum (EISF), 2014). This paper reflects on the issues brought out in the interview and the connection thereof with ...

SOCIAL INTERVENTION.

Introduction. Social work is a discipline or a profession that is practiced by qualified sociologists. It involves seeking to facilitate the wellbeing of individuals, communities or even societies (Siporin, 1975). Social work enhances social change, cohesion, empowerment, and development. Social work is interconnected with social justice, Human rights, and respect for diversities. It involves the provision of social welfare in order to alleviate the economic and social problems that people face. Such difficulties include health care, education, and food security (Sach, 2003). A sociologist connects people and structures so as to tackle the challenges of life and promote the ...

According to Richard, school shooting is a common phenomenon in American schools, especially in high school and colleges (2008). The shooting culprits are often students or criminals who have an agenda they want to express, to the government or school administrations. These shootings result to deaths of several individuals including students, and the long-term aftermath events that happen to those attacked is often massive, including depression and post-traumatic stress (Responding to Crisis, 2008). These shootings often happen abruptly. Thus, it is pertinent for the school safety committee to come up with a practical plan that is effective against these ...

The death of a family member can be a very traumatic event for a human being, particularly the loss of a parent when a child is very young. This type of crisis is known as a personal trauma, which is much more intimate and personally affecting than a mass or societal trauma. This can cause quite a psychological crisis, wherein the child experiences intense feelings of grief, loss and abandonment. It can provide a young child with plenty of issues regarding absent grief, missed opportunities, and the lack of a strong parent figure in their lives as they continue to develop. As they have not experienced sufficient life events to ...