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    Crisis is a sudden, disruptive event that threatens one's sense of control and causes feelings of vulnerability. It contains both implicit and explicit threats, often involving the loss of something important. A crisis is a dangerous opportunity that mobilizes powerful reactions to alleviate discomfort and return to emotional equilibrium. It has predictable stages and is self-limited, usually resolving within a few weeks. Crisis intervention aims to alleviate the immediate impact and help individuals cope adaptively by establishing trust, validating their experiences, and developing action plans.

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    Crisis is a sudden, disruptive event that threatens one's sense of control and causes feelings of vulnerability. It contains both implicit and explicit threats, often involving the loss of something important. A crisis is a dangerous opportunity that mobilizes powerful reactions to alleviate discomfort and return to emotional equilibrium. It has predictable stages and is self-limited, usually resolving within a few weeks. Crisis intervention aims to alleviate the immediate impact and help individuals cope adaptively by establishing trust, validating their experiences, and developing action plans.

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    Compiled by: MN Francisco

    CRISIS

    • Crisis is a sudden disruptive event or an upset in a steady state.


    • Creates feelings of being vulnerable, unprepared, and overwhelmed and
    threatened, therefore, it is experienced as a painful state.
    • Contains implicit as well as explicit threats, usually a loss of some vital
    things, often has to do with our sense of control, causes high anxiety,
    hopeless feelings.
    • Normal coping may fail, may reactivate old problems.

    Concept of crisis
    • Crisis is a dangerous opportunity
    • Crisis is a response to a hazardous event
    • Not all stressful experience produces a crisis situation
    • Psychological crisis is painful and maybe viewed as a turning point for better or
    for worst
    • Both danger and opportunity
    • Self-limited – few hours to weeks
    • New equilibrium within 4-6 weeks
    • Mobilizes powerful reactions to alleviate discomfort and return to the state of
    emotional equilibrium
    • Imposes a variety of affective, cognitive, and behavioral tasks to be mastered,
    requires new coping mechanisms
    • Stressful events reactivates old problems therefore it is possible to rework
    previously unresolved problems
    • Have predictable stages

    Types of crisis
    • DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS – transitional periods wherein an individual passes
    one stage to another
    • SITUATIONAL CRISIS – when specific external event upsets a person’s
    equilibrium
    • ADVENTITIOUS CRISIS – accidental, uncommon, unexpected events with
    multiple losses & gross environmental changes

    Most common feelings experienced during crisis


    • Anxiety – mobilize to action but can also produce confusion, poor
    judgment/decision, self defeating behavior
    • Helplessness
    • Shame – mainly due to feeling of incompetence and need to defend on others
    • Anger – often hidden behind the expression of feelings, may be displaced
    • Ambivalence – issues of control vs. out of control, reaching for help vs.
    managing self = decrease self esteem
    Compiled by: MN Francisco

    Thought and feeling ratio

    Crises intervention
    • A process of actively influencing the psychological functioning of individuals
    during a period of disequilibrium

    Goals
    • To alleviate the immediate impact of a disruptive stressful event.
    • To help mobilize the manifest and latent psychological capabilities and social
    resources of those directly affected to cope with the effects of stress adaptively.

    Criteria for crises intervention


    • Specific hazardous situation of recent origin that produces anxiety
    • A precipitating event that intensified the anxiety
    • Clear cut evidence that client is in psychological crisis
    • High motivation to overcome the crisis
    • A potential for making a psychological adjustment equal or superior to previous
    level
    • Ability to recognize psychological reason for the present predicament

    Counseling task
    1. Initiate a supportive relationship
    2. Identify the client’s major concerns and perception of the kind of help needed
    • Psychological intactness
    • Physical intactness
    • Police-legal assistance
    3. Educate with data needed to make informed decision
    4. Mobilize the client to use available social support – evaluate accessibility and
    effectiveness of his/her social network
    5. Anticipate future feelings, thoughts, and symptoms that he/she may experience
    Compiled by: MN Francisco

    Steps for crisis counseling


    1. Establish trust – physical safety, personal trust
    2. Negotiate the relationship – clear roles and limits, rules and regulations that
    protect the client and requirements that are involved
    3. Validate experience – encourage to share details, help sort out details
    4. Process decisions:
    1. Assess situation – potentials for additional, immediate abuse, various
    needs, medical, etc.
    2. Review options – options for justice, consequences
    3. Develop Action Plan
    4. Assess other resources – medical assistance, child care, court
    information, counseling for family
    5. Pursue Action Plan
    5. Come to catharsis and temporary emotional resolution – fear, anger, guilt,
    etc.
    6. Develop future goals and plans – induces termination issues

    Techniques
    1. Concentrate on affective experience
    2. Maintain calm, attentive and concern/demeanor
    3. Avoid being controlling
    4. Ask general questions and then move gradually to more specific inquiries
    5. Use clarification, generalization, and reflections to facilitate communication and
    convey understanding
    6. Support existing adaptive defenses
    7. Deal with affective concerns as they are raised by the client
    8. Underscore options as a way of encouraging client to take active role in his/her
    recovery

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