Crisis Intervention

Catalog description

This 3-hour course is designed to assist counselors in addressing clients who present in crisis. Crises come in many forms and can vary in degree and significance depending on many factors. Content will include, but is not limited to: a thorough understanding of the various types of crises; settings in which counselors will experience clients in crisis; counselor responses such as vicarious trauma; research-based approaches to clients in crises; and the importance of support systems.