Crisis Intervention and Promoting Resilience

Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Qualified Clinical Supervisor. She received her PhD in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida in 2002. In addition to being a practicing clinician, she has provided training to counselors, social workers, nurses and case managers internationally since 2006 through AllCEUs.com #crisisintervention #resilience #counselingtechniques
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Crisis Intervention Promoting Resilience & Resolution
Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs
Objectives
 Resilience and Transcendence
 Crisis Resolution: The Change Process
 Making Contact: The Power of Connecting
 Making Meaning: Transforming a Crisis Narrative
 Managing Emotional Arousal
 Envisioning Possibilities: Creative Coping
 Crisis Intervention with families
Resilience and Transcendence
 Crisis is a point of threat and opportunity (-/+)
 Six facets of crisis experience (BASICS)
 Behavioral
 Affective (Emotional)
 Somatic
 Interpersonal
 Cognitive
 Spiritual
Crisis Resolution: The Change Process
 Chaos Theory
 Complexity Theory
The Change Process: 3 Principles
 Large changes result from small changes
 Change can begin suddenly and resolve rapidly (Microsoft Updates)
 Change is a complete reordering. Something new emerges and noting is ever the same
Solution vs. Resolution
 Solutions are largely outside yourself
 Stronger security
 Behavior alterations (Preparation/prevention)
 Resolutions are internal events
 Alteration in mood
 Shift in thinking
 Change of heart
Making Contact: The Power of Connecting
Making Meaning: Transforming a Crisis
Narrative
Managing Emotional Arousal
Taking Action
Tools
 Refer to the acute crisis in the past tense
 Describe resolution and coping in the present
 Special case: Flashbacks and nightmares
 Have been/were vs. are…. You have been having flashbacks
 Before you …what are you doing…
 Transform crisis metaphors
 I feel trapped…. “And when you begin to escape from the trap, what is the first thing you will be doing?”
 I feel overwhelmed. “When you decide to start sharing some of this load with someone else, to whom will you turn, and what will you want them to do?”
 Reframing
 Situational context (global vs specific)
 Temporal context (Stable/ongoing vs. changeable/time-limited)
 Normalize negative cognitions
 Enhancing emotions of resolve
 Look for exceptions to the distress
 Daily inventories
 Narratives
 Ask presumptive questions of resolve…”When things improve…”
 Reflect emotions of resolve
 Moving On
 As you begin to resolve this painful time in your life, how your life be different?
 When you leave here, what is the first thing you see yourself doing?
 What do you see as your next step?
Finding the Pony
 Parents tried to teach their son that life wasn’t fair by making him shovel a room full of manure
 Parent’s returned at the end of the day to pick up the child.
 What happened???
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[@randygarcia4565]

WOW eye opener!!!!!!! Nice addition to my therapy toolbox!

[@DocSnipes]

Thank you. Please let me know how I can be of service.

[@randygarcia4565]

I work as a Counselor at a Domestic Violence Prevention center in NC. I would like to know your take, as a mental health professional, on DV issues and your general therapy approach. I have been using CBT and REBT with some success, I'm just want a fresh mind so I can diversify my tool box. I'd found very engaging your webinar, by the way.

[@Prudenthermit]

DV survivor & child of DV home- would definitely reccomend adding Dialectical behavioral therapy to your arsenal

[@DocSnipes]

It is also important to really integrate a trauma informed perspective and contextual CBT during the recovery process.