20. Crisis intervention. Recognizing suicidal inclination, and its psychotherapy

Question 1

what are the two types, one can be done by anybody!

Answer 1

Crisis support - supporting them, not letting them kill themselves.

Crisis intervention
 surveying of background problems and the functioning disorders of the person;

 providing an opportunity for the integration of the personality at a higher level;

 pointing beyond the solving of the actual situation, and dealing with the future as well;

 preparing for coping with later, similar situations;

Question 2

The psychological crisis

Answer 2

• A psychological state, developed as a result of external events, in which the individual is confronted by circumstances severely endangering his psychological balance, and the impact of these becomes such a psychological problem for him that are more important than anything else.
• He can neither avoid, nor solve the problems in the given time and with his accessible and customary problem solving tools.
• The mental energies of the personality become exhausted

Question 3

Identifying a crisis

Answer 3

Cry for help

suicide is almost always signaled overtly in some way