The purpose of this assignment is for you, as the crisis interventionist, to learn an organized approach when working with individuals in crisis and to be able to assess the neurological effects of crisis while establishing a sound preventative intervention approach.
In addition, you are asked to critically evaluate newsworthy information in your community or nation to determine what constitutes crises. This challenges you to begin viewing the needs of individuals and communities through the lens of a crisis interventionist and to be able to assess the behavioral expression of neurological distress.
Being a crisis interventionist means being someone open to recognizing individuals and communities in crisis, recognizing the threats, and being equipped and ready to intervene. You will take the information from your texts, knowledge from your experience in the field, along with other course work, and apply it to a real-life circumstance that has been reported in the media.
This is a benchmark assignment and should demonstrate your learning from the entire course. This assignment uses the Brooks text as a guide with all books and resources supporting your work.
INSTRUCTIONS
Format
- Current APA style (professional version)
- Title page and references; no abstract required
- 3 level I headings: Defining Crisis; Community Crisis Event; Treatment Plan
- Narrative format required; bullets and lists are not permitted
- Scholarly support is required for the first two headings (Defining Crisis and Community Crisis Event)
- Length: 4½-5½ pages
- Follow the template below to format your paper and each section. Please note, the template may reformat or view differently as part of the instructions document in Canvas. It is recommended that you download these instructions to Word to see the actual formatting.
Title page
format in current APA style per the Online Writing Center (found under the Resources tab in the upper left corner of Canvas) Template and Sample papers.
Defining Crisis
In this section, you will clearly define what constitutes a crisis using the text, Crisis Intervention: Neurobiology of Crisis (Brooks, 2017), as well as the other books and resources from the course.
You will clearly discuss the neurological effects of crisis, the risk factors of experiencing a crisis, signs of someone in crisis, and long-term neurological effects of crisis using your readings, class discussion, and research. Write from the perspective that you are informing/educating the general public about the significance of crisis intervention. Length: 2½ pages.