Crisis Intervention Counselor

Crisis Intervention Counselor

Career Description: As a crisis intervention counselor, your main responsibility is to identify and help to diminish eliminate a severely unpleasant behavior and/or feelings clients may be experiencing after undergoing a current or recent traumatic event. The main responsibility is to teach a client ways in which they can manage current emotions, allowing them to exit the crisis state of mind. A crisis intervention counselor can use many types of assessments to identify the crisis being experience at the moment and help the client by developing effective counseling for the client, a successful therapy leads to alleviating the mental shock they may be experiencing.

Course with Relevant Knowledge

PSYC 3347 –

As a crisis intervention counselor my job would require me to know different behavioral and cognitive therapy applications. Behavioral therapies are based on changing behaviors you can directly see such as a habit, in the other hand cognitive therapies are based on behavior that cannot be directly seen such as thoughts, or feelings. Knowing the differences between cognitive therapies and behavioral therapies is crucial when developing a care plan for a client. I must know if the behaviors they are displaying are over or covert, meaning observable or un-observable. Understanding elements of behavior, such as, antecedent events, which lead to behavior and how that behavior leads to consequences, is important when I try to implement behavioral therapies. If I look more into cognitive therapies this course can help me understand how activating events (such as a traumatic event), lead to certain beliefs which ultimately lead to consequences including unpleasant emotions or thoughts, how thoughts can manifest into

Working with different clients will allow you to observe the complexity of human beings, so being able to think critically is essential as everyone faces different circumstances. Each client may have a different circumstance, so you must be able to effectively use critical thinking and problem solving skills to personalize treatment for each situation. Sometimes you will need to make crucial choices based on the client’s needs, condition, and resources, using critical thinking allows you to make clever, imaginative choices without just making illogical