The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention Study Guide
This guide explains the ABC Model of Crisis Intervention, a framework for assisting individuals experiencing a crisis. It details the three phases: A (Developing and Maintaining Rapport), B (Identifying the Problem and Therapeutic Interaction), and C (Commitment and Follow-Up). The model focuses on rapid stabilization and returning individuals to their pre-crisis level of functioning.
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Introduction to Trauma Informed Practice
Trauma Informed Practice and Crisis Intervention
An introduction to trauma informed practice, crisis intervention definitions, and the impact of traumatic stress on the nervous system.
- Trauma informed lens
- Crisis intervention
- Psychological safety
- Self-care
- Self-compassion
- Grounding skills
- Dissociation
- Flashbacks
- Crisis definition
- Trauma definitions
- Traumatic stress
- Polyvagal theory
- Window of tolerance
- Hyperarousal
- Hypoarousal
- Fight, flight, or freeze response
Understanding Trauma and Crisis Intervention
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Socratic Boardroom Case Study Analysis
Socratic Boardroom Case Study Analysis
- anxiety
- panic episodes
- emotionally abusive relationship
- housing instability
- domestic violence
- financial struggle
- social isolation
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- definition, differences and indicators of trauma and/or crisis
- brain regions impacted and grounding strategies
- 5 principles of trauma informed practice
- formula for crisis formation
- formula for increased functioning
- ABC model
- therapeutic interaction statements
- ethical checks
- substance use and trauma
- ethical considerations
The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention
The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention
The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention involves developing and maintaining rapport, identifying the problem, and commitment and follow up.
- Developing and Maintaining Rapport
- Identifying the Problem
- Precipitating Event
- Meaning or Perception of the Precipitating Event
- Emotional Distress and Functioning Level
- Ethical Checks
- Therapeutic Interaction
- Validation Statements
- Educational Statements
- Empowering Statements
- Coping Behaviors
- Commitment and Follow Up
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Crisis Intervention and Coping Strategies
An overview of crisis intervention focusing on the cognitive key, perception of events, and emotion-focused or problem-focused coping.
- Crisis as danger and opportunity
- Cognitive key
- Perception of events
- Coping strategies
- Emotion-focused coping
- Problem-focused coping
- Cognitive triangle
- Post traumatic growth
- Resilience
Ethical Practice, Professionalism, and Legal Standards
Ethical Practice and Professionalism
Professional standards and principles that guide how regulated professionals think, decide and act to protect clients, workers, and the profession.
- Ethics
- Professional standards
- Respect for dignity and worth of persons
- Professional boundaries
- Do no harm
- Laws
- Mental Health Act
- Health Care Consent Act
- Substitute Decisions Act
- Personal Health Information Protection Act
- Informed consent
- Multicultural competence
- Self-awareness
- Self monitoring
- Counter transference
- Dual relationships
- Confidentiality
- Duty to report
Stress Responses and Trauma Exposure
Stress Responses and Trauma Implications
Understanding the flight, fight, freeze, faint, and fawn responses and their implications in social service work regarding trauma.
- Flight response
- Fight response
- Freeze response
- Faint response
- Fawn response
- Trauma
- Vicarious trauma
- Compassion fatigue
- Secondary traumatization
- Trauma exposure response
Understanding Stress, Crisis, and Thinking Distortions
Overview of Crisis Intervention and Thinking Distortions
An overview of crisis intervention exploring the connection between thought, feeling, and behaviour, as well as common thinking distortions.
- Stress
- Crisis
- Thought, Feeling, Behaviour connection
- Magnification and minimisation
- Catastrophizing
- Magical thinking
- Emotional reasoning
- Personalisation
- Jumping to conclusions
- Overgeneralisation
- Mind reading
- All-or-nothing thinking
- Fortune telling
- Should statements
- Disqualifying the positive
- Physical responses to crisis
- Cognitive responses to crisis
Trauma, PTSD, and Trauma-Informed Practice
Trauma and the Brain
An exploration of neuroanatomy, the physiological effects of trauma, and the differences between normal and trauma memories.
- Trauma informed practice
- Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
- Insula
- Hippocampus
- Anterior Cingulate Cortex
- Neuroanatomy
- Developmental Trauma
- Normal Memories
- Trauma Memories
- Limbic system
- Sensory stimuli
- Dissociation
- Grounding/Containment Skill
- Sensory awareness
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