Crisis Counseling: 7 Steps to Effective Intervention
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What’s Included
When clients are overwhelmed by crisis, you need confidence. You need a plan. You need this course – a blueprint you can use to confidently intervene, stabilize and support clients in the wake of crises.
Introduction: Psychotherapy.net founder Victor Yalom and crisis counseling expert Derrick Paladino discuss the nature of crisis counseling, how it differs from traditional counseling and why mental healthcare providers need a special set of tools when working with clients facing the acute trauma of a crisis. Paladino provides an overview of the Hybrid Model of Crisis Intervention and explains how the model’s seven tasks provide therapists and counselors with a foundation for providing meaningful support in the time-limited setting of a crisis counseling session.
Jay, Session One: In this online crisis counseling session recorded early in the Covid-19 pandemic, you’ll see Paladino work with Jay who, after a debilitating bout of pneumonia and medical emergencies, now experiences panic attacks and extreme anxiety. Paladino skillfully demonstrates the Hybrid Model to help Jay develop coping mechanisms that he can start using immediately. Throughout the session Paladino clearly explains his interventions. The post-session discussion with Yalom offers insights on how you can use the model to effectively support clients in a broad range of crisis settings.
Jay, Follow-Up: A week after the initial session, Paladino meets with Jay for a follow-up session to review progress and plan. Paladino explains the techniques he uses to bring Jay into the here-and-now so that together they can explore Jay’s remarkable progress and develop a plan for long-term relief. After the session, Yalom and Paladino discuss how to balance being empathic and directive, and share tips on what therapists and counselors can do to mitigate their own anxiety when going into crisis counseling sessions.
Overview
How can you provide immediate relief to clients devastated by a crisis? This online course provides therapists and counselors with a blueprint they can use to confidently intervene, stabilize and support clients overwhelmed in the wake of crises.
In this real-life online crisis counseling session recorded early in the Covid-19 pandemic, you’ll see expert Derrick Paladino support and engage his client, Jay, providing him with tools to ease anxiety and stave off panic attacks. Paladino skillfully demonstrates the Hybrid Model of Crisis Intervention, a flexible seven-task model for ensuring safety, providing relief and developing coping mechanisms that clients can implement at once. Voiceover commentaries clearly explain each task and offer insights on how you can use the tasks to effectively support clients in a broad range of crisis settings. The pre- and post-session conversations between Paladino and Psychotherapy.net’s founder, Victor Yalom, offer added depth to increase your confidence when working in situations that might otherwise feel overwhelming.
In this course you’ll learn to:
- Use seven flexible steps that you can integrate with your own approach to intervene confidently and creatively
- Support clients in crisis with the empathy they need and the direction the circumstances demand
- Use immediacy, client metaphors, self-disclosure and other techniques to build a strong therapeutic alliance
- Collaborate with clients to develop a plan for immediate relief that draws on existing strengths and resources
- Mitigate your own anxiety and intervene confidently, regardless of the devastation crises can bring
About the Experts
Derrick A. Paladino, PhD, is a professor of counseling, department chair, and Cornell Distinguished Faculty at Rollins College. Dr. Paladino has been a counselor educator for 18 years and in clinical practice longer. His areas of expertise are in multiracial identity, college counseling and student development, and crisis assessment and intervention. He has written several peer reviewed articles and book chapters and is a frequent presenter at national conferences. He is the co-editor and co-author of the following books: College Counseling and Student Development: Theory, Practice, and Campus Collaboration which received the ACCA Outstanding Contribution of Knowledge Award 2020.
Disclosures
General Disclosure
This Disclosure Statement has been designed to meet accreditation standards; Psychotherapy.net does its best to mitigate potential conflicts of interest and eliminate bias in all areas of content. Experts are compensated for their contributions to our training videos; while some of them have published works, the purchase of additional materials are not required for any Psychotherapy.net training. Each experts’ specific disclosures can be found in their biography.
Psychotherapy.net offers trainings for cost but has no financial or other relationships to disclose.
Therapist Disclosure
Derrick A. Paladino was compensated for his contribution to this course. None of his books or additional offerings are required for this course. Should such materials be referenced, it is only as additional resources.
Psychotherapy.net defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. There is no minimum financial threshold; individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies. We ask that all contributors disclose any and all financial relationships they have with any ineligible companies whether the individual views them as relevant to the education or not.
Additionally, there is no commercial support for this activity. None of the planners or any employee at Psychotherapy.net who has worked on this educational activity has relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.
Learning Objectives
- Utilize the seven tasks of the Hybrid Model of Crisis Intervention in your clinical practice
- Explain the clinical needs of people in their moments of crisis
- Employ responsive and effective crisis counseling techniques in a variety of setting
What you get in this course
Real Sessions
2 hours of videos featuring Crisis Counseling expert Derrick Paladino conducting a powerful remote session
Therapist Commentary
Thorough behind-the-scenes commentary to provide insight into Paladino’s therapeutic interventions
Clear Application
Detailed step-by-step guidance on how to apply a model of crisis intervention proven to be effective
Bonus Resources
Supplemental skill-building activities to help you master the core skills demonstrated in the videos
