SOC-115 Crisis Intervention and Prevention
This course provides theoretical and applied instruction in crisis intervention skills for those working withyouth and adults involved in patterns of self-defeating behavior. Students will demonstrate skill in 19 specific competencies for using crisis as a teaching and therapeutic opportunity with others showing six specific patterns of self-defeating behavior.
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Course Outline
Course Description
This course provides theoretical and applied instruction in crisis intervention skills for those working withyouth and adults involved in patterns of self-defeating behavior. Students will demonstrate skill in 19 specific competencies for using crisis as a teaching and therapeutic opportunity with others showing six specific patterns of self-defeating behavior.
Credit Hours
3Course Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate efficacy data on LSCI as a therapeutic technique involving cognitive mediation of significant events or crises in the life of persons demonstrating patterns of self-defeating behavior
- Demonstrate an understanding of predominant theories, concepts, and methodologies that underlie the study of the physical, cognitive, and social development of individuals and the multiple contexts in which they live
- Articulate the dynamics of conflict cycles, which lead to self-defeating behavior, recognizing thinking errors that interfere with the communication and problem solving process and the process of staff counter-aggression, which precludes effective intervention
- Demonstrate effective de-escalation, decoding, and counseling strategies for persons in crisis
- Assess the circumstances under which each technique is or is not an appropriate intervention, differentially diagnosing the six common patterns of self-defeating behavior, matching specific interventions with each patterns of self-defeating behavior
- Utilize a six-step sequence and specific communication skills for each intervention effectively
Topic Outline
- 1. An understanding of the differences between "our" psychological world and the psychological world of the person in crisis during conflict
- 2. An understanding of the development of irrational beliefs and the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy
- 3. An understanding of stress: developmental, psychological, reality, and physical
- 4. An understanding of defense mechanisms and cognitive traps
- 5. An understanding of "you" messages and "I" messages, including the differences and uses of each
- 6. An understanding of the dynamics of the conflict cycle
- 7. An understanding of attending, listening (the experience, the feeling, the behavior), and nonverbal observing skills
- 8. An understanding of the concept of responding skills: affirming, decoding, clarifying, and confronting
- 9. An understanding of de-escalation skills
- 10. An understanding of the concept of establishing an accurate timeline
- 11. An understanding of the concept of surface management skills and their use
- 12. An understanding of the Red Flag Reclaiming Intervention: Carry In, Tap In, and Carry Over
- 13. An understanding of the Reality Rub Reclaiming Intervention
- 14. An understanding of the New Tools Reclaiming Intervention
- 15. An understanding of the Symptom Estrangement Reclaiming Intervention
- 16. An understanding of the Massaging Numb Values Reclaiming Intervention
- 17. An understanding of the Manipulation of Body Boundaries Reclaiming Intervention
- 18. An understanding of the six stages of the verbal processing model
- 19. An understanding of one's own triggers and the dynamics of staff counter-aggression