Essay On Crisis Intervention

Crisis intervention is critical for anyone coping with crisis, including a child who as difficulties controlling their behavioural outburst during a crisis. Therefore, in my discussion 1, I chose to focus on children being affected by crises such as, seen a parent being abused, parents going through a divorce and a child moving from one home to the next. In each of these situational crises, a child will feel hopelessness, since they can’t help their parent(s)—stay safe or together. They might feel confused by what is happening in their life, which can foster mistrust. The child self-esteem can be affected by the uncertainty of their situation, which can lead to behavioural outburst.
There are multiple ways to help a child in crisis, but each child’s situation is different and every child handle crisis differently. However, with each crisis situations I identified, I would recommend, Task 5: Planning in order to Re-establish Control. Task 5, stated, Re-establishing control means helping clients create a plan to guide them in the resolution of the crisis, (James & Gilliland 2017 p. 55). This intervention can restore a child emotional, behavioural, and cognitive stability. Intervention Skill Treatment
In each crisis situation, I would seek additional support, such as a referral to a family-serving agency.
An agency can provide an array of services, including assessment and treatment that can include play therapy, individual counselling and family counselling. I would provide coping mechanisms, for instant taking a break when they feel overwhelmed, by going for a walk or breathing exercises, which help them to refocus and stay calm. This would benefit the child, by helping them to regulate their behaviour, so they can feel a sense of control. If a child has a sense of control in their life, their self-esteem will
rise.
A multicultural Issue
While dealing with a child who is experiencing parents going through a divorce. I would need to take into account a multicultural issue, for example, the child’s parents resistant counselling, given that, they believe their child is misbehaving, because they need attention. To be culturally appropriate and effective, I would speak to the parents about what they think counselling entail and why they believe it’s not affective. I would research further about the child’s culture to get a better understanding of why the child parents feel the way they do. I would collect pamphlets and create a profile on pros and cons, of a child dealing with parents going through a divorce and present it to the parents.
Sue (1992, p. 12; 1999a, 1999b) reminds us that failure to understand clients worldviews may lead human services workers to make erroneous interpretations, judgments and conclusions that result in doing serious harm to clients, especially those who are culturally different. (James & Gilliland 2017 p. 55)