Lesson 2: Crisis Intervention Skills
Attention
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this lesson's material:
- Students will demonstrate effective interviewing skills.
- Students will identify different types of crisis responses and issues relevant to each.
- Students will understand how to develop and maintain rapport while assessing for needs.
- Students will learn effective interventions to use for crises.
- Students will develop listening skills that will assist in crisis identification and intervention.
- Students will explore fundamental understanding of interviewing and use of open ended vs. close ended questions, alliances and the LAPC model.
Teaching
- Response to Crisis
- Physical
- Emotional
- Cognitive
- Characteristics of Effective Crisis Intervention
- Empowerment-Focused Crisis Intervention
- Flexible Crisis Intervention
- Characteristics of Effective Crisis Counselors
- Empathy, Genuineness, Acceptance and Positive Regard – Carl Rogers
- Crisis Intervention Techniques: The LAPC Model
- Listen
- Assess
- Plan
- Commit
Assessment
Lesson 2 Assignment A
Describe, in detail, the skills needed to be an effective crisis worker. Describe your own skills and the strengths you have along with the challenges you may face. Pay particular attention to this section in the reading, and draw your vocabulary and analysis from this section of the book. This paper should be at least one full page.
Lesson 2 Assignment B
Describe the LAPC model in detail. Go though each letter of the acronym and describe it in your own words. Discuss the importance of each aspect. Provide an explanation of your skills in each area and/or how you hope to improve your skills using the LAPC model. This assignment, also, should be at least one full page.
Lesson 2 Assignment C
What are your thoughts about Empowerment-Focused Crisis Intervention? Be creative and thoughtful in your analysis- be sure to give enough detail to indicate that you understand this concept well. Use vocabulary. Again, this paper should be one full page.
Possible Class Discussion
Describe the physical, emotional (affective), cognitive and behavioral responses to a crisis situation. Post a 300 word understanding to Bb.
Class activity: complete a crisis plan for you or a significant other person in your life- identify your triggers, the interventions that help and hurt through the initial stages of trigger, escalation and crisis. Discuss with the class your understanding of the needs you are communicating when you identify what is helpful in intervention.
In all the graded discussion you need to post at least three times in order to get full credit for the discussion. ~ One "main post" that addresses the topic, and two "reply posts." Your "reply posts" must be substantive, meaning, it can't simply be "Nice" or "I agree"...ask questions, offer insight, expand on the idea! ~
This is supposed to be a lively conversation, but that is up to YOU!
I believe in intellectual alchemy and the melding of minds can be magical, but not as restrained, inert and unengaged object~ DISCUSS…. Ancient Greeks learned through lyceum talks- this is on-line discussion forum is our philosophical arena! LEARN to ENGAGE
Socratic Method: A pedagogical technique in which a teacher does not give information directly but instead asks a series of questions, with the result that the student comes either to the desired knowledge by answering the questions or to a deeper awareness of the limits of knowledge.
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