Crisis Intervention Promoting Resilience
The document discusses crisis intervention strategies aimed at promoting resilience and resolution, presented by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes. Key areas include the importance of connection, transforming crisis narratives, managing emotional arousal, and creative coping techniques. It emphasizes the role of support systems and individual agency in navigating crises and achieving personal growth.
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- 1. Crisis Intervention Promoting Resilience& Resolution Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs AllCEUs.com Unlimited CEUs and Specialty Certifications $59 By Lennis G. Echterling et al.
- 2. Objectives Resilience andTranscendence Crisis Resolution: The Change Process Making Contact: The Power of Connecting Making Meaning: Transforming a Crisis Narrative Managing Emotional Arousal Envisioning Possibilities: Creative Coping Crisis Intervention with families
- 3. Resilience and Transcendence Crisis is a point of threat and opportunity (-/+) Six facets of crisis experience (BASICS) Behavioral Affective (Emotional) Somatic Interpersonal Cognitive Spiritual Crime victim | Death of a Loved One | Natural Disaster | Secondary Trauma by Media in Children
- 4. Resilience and Transcendence Validation of the experience is crucial (LUVE) Listen Understand Validate Explore client strengths Crime victim | Death of a Loved One | Natural Disaster | Secondary Trauma by Media in Children
- 5. Crisis Resolution: TheChange Process Chaos Theory Chaotic systems are predictable for a while and then 'appear' to become random. Each point in a chaotic system is close to other points with significantly different future paths. An arbitrarily small change of the current path may lead to significantly different future behavior.
- 6. Crisis Resolution: TheChange Process Complexity Theory Emphasizes interactions and the accompanying feedback loops that constantly change systems. Systems are unpredictable, they are also constrained by order-generating rules (Reward principle) Individual behaviors and choices are more important than executive plans in an organization. Focus on self-organization instead of management control. Use small changes and interventions Encourage conflict and change This may seem to push the person to an unstable situation, but the person actually can gain improvements from the healthy edge of chaos (Comfort zone)
- 7. The Change Process:3 Principles Large changes result from small changes Change can begin suddenly and resolve rapidly (Microsoft Updates) Change is a complete reordering. Something new emerges and noting is ever the same
- 8. Solution vs. Resolution Solutions are largely outside yourself Stronger security Behavior alterations (Preparation/prevention) Resolutions are internal events Alteration in mood Shift in thinking Change of heart Crime victim | Death of a Loved One | Natural Disaster
- 9. Making Contact: ThePower of Connecting Reconnecting Social supports are a powerful buffer Connecting to others is a fundamental human need Humans are hardwired to help each other Humans develop empathy even before verbal skills
- 10. Making Contact: ThePower of Connecting Receiving support Use reaching out questions Provide encouragement Acknowledge the crisis experience Make positive observations Be tentative rather than authoritative, owning your impressions Highlight the survivor in crisis Invite the person to talk (or not) about the experience
- 11. Making Meaning: Transforminga Crisis Crisis can shatter people’s assumptions about the world Basic Assumptins The world is benevolent The world is meaningful and predictable The self is worthy / Life is fair As humans, we need to create meaning Crime victim | Death of a Loved One | Natural Disaster | Secondary Trauma by Media in Children
- 12. Making Meaning: Transforminga Crisis Telling the Story Survivors often have slightly different accounts of the crisis each time they tell it Changing recollections are the result of trying to find meaning and resolve crisis Help clients rectify discrepancies by pointing out positive change or evidence of strength Listen for the hero in the tragedy Crime victim | Death of a Loved One | Natural Disaster | Secondary Trauma by Media in Children
- 13. Narrative The narrativecan be used to help people explore the bigger picture The narrative can be continued into a positive resolution The narrative can be explored in terms of focus and character development (what role did others play or could they play) Ask making meaning questions What have you discovered about yourself? What sense do you make of this? What do you see as the purpose for this? What keeps you going through this difficult time?
- 14. Managing Emotional Arousal People in crisis experience Distressful emotions: Fear, anger, grief Positive emotions: Resolve, courage, compassion, hope Highlight the positive Handling Distress Catharsis is not necessary Expression is… Arousing Resolve Performance quality is curvilinear proportion to emotional arousal
- 15. Taking Action EnvisioningPossibilities Explore goals Create goals that are positive Create a goal statement… “When you achieve this…” Use scaling…. Getting from 1 to 10 (1 is the crisis) Creative Coping Examine current behaviors in terms of creative coping Educate about common behavioral changes in response to stress/crisis Using Resources
- 16. Tools Refer tothe acute crisis in the past tense Describe resolution and coping in the present Special case: Flashbacks and nightmares Have been/were vs. are…. You have been having flashbacks Before you …what are you doing… Transform crisis metaphors I feel trapped…. “And when you begin to escape from the trap, what is the first thing you will be doing?” I feel overwhelmed. “When you decide to start sharing some of this load with someone else, to whom will you turn, and what will you want them to do?”
- 17. Tools cont… Reframing Situational context (global vs specific) Temporal context (Stable/ongoing vs. changeable/time- limited) Normalize negative cognitions Enhancing emotions of resolve Look for exceptions to the distress Daily inventories Narratives Ask presumptive questions of resolve…”When things improve…” Reflect emotions of resolve
- 18. Tools cont… MovingOn As you begin to resolve this painful time in your life, how your life be different? When you leave here, what is the first thing you see yourself doing? What do you see as your next step?
- 19. Finding the Pony Parents tried to teach their son that life wasn’t fair by making him shovel a room full of manure Parent’s returned at the end of the day to pick up the child. What happened???
- 20. Families and Couplesin Crisis When one member of the system is in crisis, it impacts the entire system Families and couples may face developmental crises Family members need to learn LUVE skills Listen Understand Validate Enhance resolve
- 21. Summary Resilience andTranscendence Crisis Resolution: The Change Process Making Contact: The Power of Connecting Making Meaning: Transforming a Crisis Narrative Managing Emotional Arousal Envisioning Possibilities Creative Coping