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EXAMINATIONS: Grades are based on completion of assignments and activities.

GRADING: The grading scale for this course is as follows:

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

GRADING COMPOSITION:

10 Activities 40%
Crisis Intervention Workbook 40%
2 Case Studies 10%
Self evaluation 5%
Discovery & Intention Statement 5%

TOTAL 100%

GOALS: The aim of education about Crisis Intervention in to understand the proper way to alleviate any situation.

METHODS: Readings from textbook, professional books and journals, Self-awareness/exploration activities

COMMUNICATION: You are encouraged to communicate with me. I am available as a teacher, coach, and mentor to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Primarily, communication is through email. However, I am also available for conversation by telephone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also very willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information at the time such chat sessions are scheduled. Please keep my email address handy so that you can contact me whenever necessary. Upon registration, you will receive my email address. If at any time during this course you change your email address, please be sure to notify me right away.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: To present applied therapeutic counseling in general, and crisis intervention in particular, in a way that effectively describes actual strategies to alleviate the crisis. In this course you will be places in a crisis situation as it is occurring, enabling you to experience what crisis workers are experiencing as they operate.

COURSE OUTLINE:

1). Crisis Intervention Theory and Application.
2). Approaching Crisis Intervention.
3). Basic Crisis Intervention Skills.
4). Crisis Case Handling.
5). Handling Specific Crises: Going into Trenches.
6). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
7). Crisis of Lethality.
8). Sexual Assault.
9). Partner Violence.
10). Chemical Dependency: The Crisis of Addiction.
11). Personal Loss: Bereavement and Grief.
12). Crisis in the Human Services Workplace.
13). Violent Behavior in Institutions.
14). Crisis in Schools.
15) Crisis/Hostage Negotiation.
16). Human Services Worker in Crisis: Burnout, Vicarious Traumatization, and Compassion Fatigue.
17). Ecosystemic Crisis Intervention and the Multicultural Imperative.
18). Off the Couch and into the Streets.
19). Strategies and Intervention.
20). Integration of the Six Step Model with Strategies.
21). Case Studies.