Myer's Crisis Intervention Model

Anyone could variously be pressured in a precise moment, although others might experience it and have no impressions. Crises can differ from a suffering bearing in mind about the timing and how abruptly it redresses. It could be threatening to anyone's beliefs, understanding and performance. This could bring the individual to feel damaged and tries to make trouble for others near them. Crisis contains characteristics such as the presence of danger and opportunity, seeds of growth and change, the necessity of choice, complicated symptomology, no panaceas or quick fixes, universality and idiosyncrasy, resiliency and perception. It is seen as a danger because crisis can cause shocking pain to the individual. It is seen as an opportunity because
There are also different kind of crisis such as developmental, existential, situational and systemic crisis. A crisis interventionist would not have enough time to figure out the client’s history, so it would be essential that the interventionist should try to figure out the existence of the client’s crisis quickly upon first association. Myer’s triage assessment model is a useful framework for rapid assessments of three domains which are affective, behavioural and cognitive. (Yeager & Roberts, 2015) The affective state looks at the feelings of the client during the crisis. At this state, severe impairment means the client has no ability to control feelings, regardless of potential danger to self or others. (Myer, James and Moulten, 2010) If client has stable mood and could control their feelings, there is no impairment. The behavioural state takes a look at the actions of the client. If client has severe impairment, their behaviours are ineffective or erratic and not predictable. If behaviours are socially appropriate, there is no impairment. The cognitive state takes a look at the thinking patterns of the client. If client has severe impairment, their decision-making ability is
The first challenge is task one on how the interventionist introduces themselves to the client when they have just met. During this stage, the objectives in predispositioning is to establish a psychological connection and create a line of communication and to clarify intentions with regards as to what is going to happen. To overcome this challenge, the interventionist should introduce themselves in a way that is nonthreatening, helpful and assumes a problem-solving as opposed to an adversarial approach. The second challenge in task two is where there are complex biopsychosocial contributors interacting with one another (Kleespies, 2009). To overcome this challenge, the interventionist should perceive the crisis situation as the client perceives it, all intervention strategies and procedures the interventionist might use may miss the mark and be of no value to the client. The interventionist should begin the session with the core listening skills which are empathy, genuineness and acceptance. In the third task, providing support, the challenge is that interventionists assumes that client experiences being valued, prized or cared for, which in most cases, it’s the total opposite. To overcome this challenge, the interventionist should assure the client that we care about them and to let them know that we are there for them, we should show psychological, logistical and social support. In task four,