Crisis Intervention

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Crisis Intervention

• Crisis Intervention as an early intervention model

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Crisis Intervention

• Variety of Models
• Lindemann (1944)
• Caplan (1964)
• Janosik (1984)
• James Gilliland (2000)

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Characteristics of a Crisis

• Presence of danger opportunity
• Complicated symptomology
• Seeds of growth and change
• No panaceas or quick fixes
• Necessity of choice
• Universality idiosyncrasy
• James Gilliland (2000)

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Crisis Domains

• Developmental
• Situational
• Existential
• Environmental
• James Gilliland (2000)
• what occurs during the immediate aftermath of
  the crisis event determines whether or not the
  crisis will become a disease reservoir that will
  be transformed into a chronic and long-term
  state (Janosik, 1984, p. 9)

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Six-step Model of Crisis InterventionJames
Gilliland (2000)

• Listening
• Define the problem
• Ensuring safety
• Providing support
• Acting
• 4. Identifying and examining choices
• 5. Making plans
• 6. Obtaining commitment

cannot model faith and belief in ones ability to
overcome
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Culturally Biased Assumptions (Pederson, 1987)

• A common measure of normal behavior
• Primacy of the individual over the group
• Problems can be limited by academic discipline
  boundaries
• Interpretation of language
• Independence is valuable and dependencies
  undesirable
• Formal therapy is more important than natural
  support
• Linear thinking
• Individuals need to change to fit the system
• History has little or no relevance to
  contemporary events
• Mental health workers already know all of their
  assumptions

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Crisis Intervention Summary

• Crisis Intervention and the pathogenic model
• Recovery versus growth
• Emerging trend in crisis intervention
• Hillman2002

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