Catalog Entries |
Spring 2018
May 13,2024 |
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| HS 209 - Crisis Intervention/Prevention |
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Introduction to crisis intervention and prevention that
emphasizes crisis counseling, early intervention and
non-physical methods for preventing or controlling
disruptive behavior, including techniques for ensuring
personal safety. Human service and correctional personnel
recognize the need for timely, effective, confident,
non-violent intervention for a wide range of crisis
situations. Whether a client is calling after hours in
crisis, or is verbally or physically acting out in a
residential or correctional program, staff need to have the
knowledge and ability to appropriately intervene to create a
more trusting, safe environment and to prevent further
crisis development. Content of this course will provide
students with a hands-on, practical approach to learning how
to recognize an individual in crisis, assess their needs
and prevent an emotionally or physically threatening
situation from escalating out of control. It will focus on
assisting learners to recognize and overcome their own fears
and develop confidence by knowing what to expect in a
crisis and providing proven skills and techniques to use. We
will examine characteristics of people in crisis, crisis
counseling techniques, suicide intervention, stages of
crisis development and appropriate intervention responses to
verbal and physical acting out. This course will use a
telephone crisis intervention model, which deals with
anxiety, depression, and suicide. It then progresses to a
non-violent, in person intervention model, which explores
nonverbal, paraverbal and verbal intervention, moving then
to personal safety techniques to use in potentially violent
situations with physical acting out persons. The course
content consists of lectures, small and large group
discussions, group exercises, demonstrations, a high level
of participation, readings, and role-playing.
3.000 Credit hours 30.000 TO 36.000 Lecture hours Syllabus Available Levels: Credit Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science Division Social Science Department Course Attributes: Tuition, Career and Technical Education |
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