Crisis Intervention Seminar

Practical Crisis Intervention Skills for Service Providers

This course offers essential, hands-on information for professionals who regularly assist clients experiencing a crisis. Develop fundamental clinical skills in crisis intervention – a vital skillset for a wide range of roles. Whether you're a physician, social worker, nurse, counselor, police officer, clergy member, guidance counselor, or involved in mental health, corrections, or social services, this curriculum is designed for you. It's also highly relevant for students in counseling, mental health, and corrections programs.

Curriculum Highlights:

• Crisis Intervention Theory: Understand the core principles guiding effective crisis intervention.
• Emotional Homeostasis: Learn about maintaining emotional balance and how crises disrupt it.
• Components of a Crisis: Explore the key elements that define a crisis situation.
• Five Characteristics of a Crisis: Identify the defining features of a crisis.
• Emergency Assessment: Master techniques for rapidly and effectively assessing a client in crisis.
• Approaching the Assessment: 10 General Guidelines: A practical framework for initiating a crisis assessment.
• The Assessment Protocol: Relevant Information: Eight Sections: A detailed, structured approach to gathering crucial information.
• Depression: Comprehensive understanding of depression, including:
  • Psychological Signs of Depression
  • Vegetative Signs of Depression
  • Three General Considerations Pertaining to Depression
  • Suicide and Suicide Risk Assessment: Learn to identify and assess suicide risk.
  • Statistics: Understand current trends in suicide statistics.
  • Increasing Risk: Recent Trends: Three Groups: Identify at-risk populations.
  • Seven Demographic Variables of Relevance to Suicide Risk: Recognize factors contributing to suicide risk.
  • The Importance of Suicidal History in Determining Risk: Understand the significance of past suicidal ideation.
  • Dynamics of Suicide: Four Considerations: Explore the complex factors involved in suicide.
  • Eight Clinical Predictors of Suicide Risk: Identify key warning signs.
  • The Importance of Ambivalence in Intervening with Suicidal Clients: Address the complexities of suicidal ideation.
• Psychosis: Gain insights into psychosis, including:
  • Impaired Reality Testing
  • The Quality of Psychotic Phenomena: Four Considerations
  • Intervening with Psychotic Clients: Four Considerations
• Anxiety Disorders: Explore the multifaceted nature of anxiety disorders, including:
  • Emotional / Physiological and Cognitive Components of Anxiety
  • Cyclical Nature of Anxiety Reactions
  • Two Key Diagnostic Questions
  • Four Specific Anxiety Disorders
  • Two Important Clinical Perspectives Relating to Anxiety
• Approaches to Crisis Counselling: Learn effective strategies for crisis counseling.
• Goal of Crisis Counselling: Understand the primary objectives of crisis intervention.
• Crisis Counselling Conducted Through a Seven Question Process (Illustrated with...a Concrete Example): A practical, step-by-step approach.
• Intervening with the Crisis Prone Person: Strategies for working with individuals predisposed to crises.
• Clinical – Demographic Profile: Three Considerations: Understand the impact of demographics on crisis intervention.
• Clinical Considerations in Working with the Crisis Prone Person: Four Parameters: Key factors to consider in ongoing support.
• Hospitalization and Involuntary Psychiatric Admission: Learn about the circumstances surrounding hospitalization and involuntary psychiatric admission.
• Four Negative Aspects of Psychiatric Hospitalization
• Basis for Decision to Admit a Client to Hospital
• Three Clinical Circumstances Suggesting Admission
• General Parameters Relating to Involuntary Psychiatric Admission
• Conclusions: Three General Clinical Considerations

This course is supplemented with more than 100 graphics to enhance understanding and retention.