Lesson 9: Crisis Intervention in Schools

Attention

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this lesson's material, students will be able to:

• Students will be able to identify a model of crisis intervention for schools.
• Students will be able to define and identify effective interventions at primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary intervention levels.
• Students will identify three problems and causes to these problems in schools, and create a prevention program project- identifying the roles, rules, and interventions to prevent the problems and to ameliorate the effects on all three levels.
• Students will be able to list the American Association of Suicidology postvention guidelines and develop a debate BOTH for the guidelines AND against them.

Teaching

Click HERE for the Time line of Worldwide School and Mass Shootings

Click HERE for School Shootings throughout US History (USA Today)

Click HERE for a time line of the Worst Mass Shooting Incidents Across the Globe over the past Two Decades

• Definition
• Statistics
• Types
  • Violence
  • Bullying

• Suicide
•  National Examples
  • Columbine
  • Sandy Hook
• Response
  • National
  • Community
• A Model for Intervention
  • Primary Prevention
  • Secondary Prevention
  • Tertiary Intervention

Click HERE for an article on School-Based Crisis Intervention

Assessment

Possible Class Discussion

Post to Bb a 600 word main post (and two 100 word responses) discussing the epidemic of violence, bullying, school issues, family issues, traumas and abuses we see in media and in our lives. Provide an explanation for this violence and summarize a way to effectively intervene.