Jheysson Garcia

Crisis intervention

Things to know about chapter 3 and things you need to know about your midterm.

Intervention and assessment tools, is it important to established a psychological connection between the client ? to clarify what went on.

According to your text , when you create a psychological connection it is called pre conditioning . The communication this term is known as pre-conditioning.

One of the thing that is very important is creating a line of communication with the client to clarify what is going on and this is known as pre conditioning.

When you do this the answer you may get can tend to get demeaning or offensive to the people in crisis.

Finding the client point of view. To clarify your intentions ( how can you make it feel like it’s the counsils problem) the counsil is a resource for them

listening skills, = genuinely, acceptance, empathy or positive regard all together they form listening skills.

A state of emotional balance , their equilibrium .

For a social worker to provide support for a client. Psychological , logistical support, informational support, social support. Not making them feel like what they feel is weird or different.

Well though out crisis intervention program look like , people don’t want to feel like they want to tell their stories over and over again . it would

The default task that is always paralot in operational crisis intervention safety,

one of the task in maintaining equilibrium keeping track of a client success, follow up, you never take the clients ,

you always invite the client even when they are not in crisis but in case they want to continue to keep talking about what has already happen.

A few questions on the California shooting, look it up. LA.

Crisis intervention 1.4

Midterm notes

Chapter 3 that is where midterm will start , Wednesday the 20, chapter 3 talks about situational support coping mechanism

Positive and constructive thinking

Thinking pattern in terms of alternative to help a client in crisis,

2 procedures that describes a well though to deal with crisis. You want to deal with it right away . otherwise you won’t be able to handle the repercussions.

1. Identify additional persons, groups, and other referall resources that can be contacted for immediate support

2. Defining realistic achievable action steps that can be taken,

Central objective is to help the client restore his or her autonomy and control over their life, you saw thing on the scenario of the homeless and they were struggling to tell the worker to him that they wanted their own place.

The crisis worker has to make them feel as they have autonomy,

It is also providing information to victims and survivors in the form of psychology education, this helps them understand that they experience psychological effect

You also want to tell them what to look for and what to expect in the future. Sometimes people get stuck in their crisis, it affects their quality of life.

Additional atrioage system which is a sorting system

Is used to determine the severity by assessing their current emotional and cognitive status and it helps the worker to know how to deal with the client. What type of support system to use and are available .

It helps them to know the situation better and how to better de escalated what is going on the client

The A triage system consist of ABC”

Affective relating to their moods,

behavioral domains relating to how they act

Cognitive relating to how they think

The degree of the crisis make affect their mobility, this gives the crises , how direct a worker should be

The sensitive to your words have to be personalized to the individuals you are dealing with .

Chapter 4 discusses the tools of the trade

Understand the listening in crisis intervention, open ended and close ended questions.

Open ended lets clients respond with full statements that ended up leaving a full meaning,

Close ended - they can be very challenging they are not always appropriate , when a closed ended is necessary when they are assessing lethality, there is no if and butts you have to go for it .

It’s better regarded for situation where lethality is an immediate threat.

Facilitated listening involves giving full attention to the client , making initial owning statements, using words like we, helping the client understand the full impact of the situation .

The triage level of the client and the crisis content, some of the basic strategy

Implementing order

Promoting expansion.

Providing protection this is (major,)

Also promoting mobilization

Creating necessary awareness

Proving support to the client

Emphazing focus you help them to focus in on positive things,

You have to psychological effect and relationship with that individual

The women shut down , the women from the movie

The worker can apply these basic strategies

The worker should re states the clients words to show him that you listened and it helps to show agreement on how you will go forward from this moment on .

Allowing people to fill in the blank rather than attack,

Handing crisis cases vs long term cases Chapter 5

Knowing the scope of problem

Use of best guest used in crisis for short term not for long term

Use of psychological tact

Handling mental health issues and entry to a state, some people pretend to be insane to get better treatment .

Walk in, somebody can sign you in, when the police is trying to deal with someone who is acting out and they can also bring them,

Self worth, hope without you cant talk to people.

Tell them that there is another way and give them a plan and give them a goal and show them that things are

1963 federal community act they , were meant to de institunialized they meant suddenly produce a problem that their theraphist cant solve, if you been instituniolzed never been on their .

Problems of terminations people don’t want to leave the institunialized , because they fear the outside world.

The holding of the court was on the cas

Tarasoff vs board of region 1976, when a male client told his theraphits on a university campus that he intended to murder a young woman. It basically makes psychiatrist tell a third party if someone threatens to harm someone.

The principal that bear in confidential and legal and moral codes and codes to the helping of professional .

Cons

No hand gestures

It is done with volunteers psychiatrict degree , and it takes emotional degree,

Emotionally tooling

Pro

24/7

Immediate

Anonymous when calling

It is usually free. It is cost effective.

You can train these people to make these calls.

Must strive to achieve, psychological contact with the client ) that they can trust you and empathy, is it more difficult to achieve in phone rather than person?

You need different skills

Ptsd they cant talk to you about a event , they tell you that they are not sleeping, that they stay away of social groups, they cant work in a certain occupations,

They must have been exposed to trauma or serious injury to yourself or others,

When a person persistent experiences

Feeling of being detached from reality or life, when you try to avoid all self

Inability to recall important dates and times and you purposely avoid certain,

Nervous system is aroused when you’re in a situation that is similar to the one you been through,

When you’re treating a child you play with them and talk it out,

Awareness of your ptsd , helps them understand.

Also dealing with kids and pstd you play games with them .

Chapter 8 and crisis of lethality

Six charasterics of suicide

4 crisis workers this pattern of warning signals “is path warned”

Substance abuse people can be created with this, prescription drugs is a huge one,

Purposelessness they feel like nobody can help them

Anxiety and agitation

Feeling of being trap

Hopelessness

Withdrawal any type from family

Anger

Recklessness

Mood fluctuation taken into account medication and illness