Crisis Intervention Seminar

Brief Summary

This course is all about building essential skills for helping people in crisis. You’ll dive into assessing mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and even risks of suicide. It’s perfect for anyone working in health services or counseling. Super practical and totally necessary.

About This Course

The emphasis is on the development of fundamental clinical skills in the area of crisis interventionGeneral Overview

This presentation delivers practical and pragmatic information that will be useful to a wide variety of service providers who encounter clients in crisis. The emphasis is on the development of fundamental clinical skills in the area of crisis intervention, and the curriculum will be relevant to such practitioners as physicians, service providers and students in the counseling, mental health and corrections fields, nurses, clergy, police officers, individuals employed in social service occupations, guidance counselors and special services providers in the educational system, and others who encounter clients in crisis.

Curriculum

Supplemented Through Presentation of More Than 100 Graphics

Crisis Intervention Theory

• Emotional Homeostasis

• Components of a Crisis

• Five Characteristics of a Crisis
  

• Approaching the Assessment: 10 General Guidelines

• The Assessment Protocol: Relevant Information:Eight Sections
  

• Psychological Signs of Depression

• Vegetative Signs of Depression

• Three General Considerations Pertaining to Depression
  

• Statistics

• Increasing Risk: Recent Trends: Three Groups

• Seven Demographic Variables of Relevance to Suicide Risk

• The Importance of Suicidal History in Determining Risk

• Dynamics of Suicide: Four Considerations

• Eight Clinical Predictors of Suicide Risk

• The Importance of Ambivalence in Intervening with Suicidal Clients
  

• Impaired Reality Testing

• The Quality of Psychotic Phenomena: Four Considerations

• Intervening with Psychotic Clients: Four Considerations
  

• 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
  

• Goal of Crisis Counselling

• Crisis Counselling Conducted Through a Seven Question Process (Illustrated with...a Concrete Example)
  

• Clinical – Demographic Profile: Three Considerations

• Clinical Considerations in Working with the Crisis Prone Person: Four Parameters
  

• 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
  

• Three General Clinical Considerations

• Crisis Intervention Theory

• Emergency Assessment

• Depression