Crisis Intervention Theories Flashcards
What is crisis intervention?
A short-term treatment usually lasting four to six weeks
Implemented when a client enters treatment following some type of traumatic event that causes significant distress, reducing client’s functioning
Gerald Caplan’s Stages of Crises
Stage 1: stress increases immediately following event, client may experience denial and try to use past coping skills
Stage 2: usual coping strategies fail
Stage 3: client experiences major emotional turmoil, possible feelings of hopelessness, depression, and anxiety
Stage 4: complete psychological and emotional collapse
Crisis Intervention Process
Engage and Assess- de-escalate emotional stress, accessing outside systems, assessing level of care needs
Set Goals and Implement Treatment- set goals that help client return to pre-crisis functioning
Evaluate and Terminate- conclude treatment and evaluate completion of goals and how client can use skills they develop for future crisises
Five major social institutions
Family
Religion
Government
Education
Economics
Globalization
The process of working and operating in a hyper-connected, international capacity, has affected nearly every industry
Community development theory
Focuses on oppressed people who are in the process of overcoming social problems that were imposed upon them by external forces
Members learn how to improve that community and gain control of their local environment
William Cross’ Nigrescence Model
Stages of development for people of color
Pre-encounter (Nigrescence Model)
Kids don’t critically evaluate race-related messages they receive from the world around them
Encounter (Nigrescence Model)
Early adolescence, individual has one or more experiences that are related to race
Immersion-Emersion (Nigrescence Model)
After experiencing racial event, individual strongly identifies with their racial group and may seek out information about their history and culture
Emersion= coming out of something
Immersion= becoming involved in things
Internalization (Nigrescence Model)
Racial identity is solidified, and the individual experiences a sense of security in identifying with their race
Internalization-Commitment (Nigrescence Model)
Racial identity is taken one step further into activism pertaining to issues related to the experiences of the individual’s racial group
David Sue’s Stages of Racial/Cultural Identity Development
Refers to multicultural issues in counseling
Conformity (Sue)
Individual displays a distinct preference for the dominant culture and holds negative views of their own group
Dissonance (Sue)
Individual undergoes a period of re-thinking or challenging beliefs, examining and appreciating positive aspects of their own group
