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This week’s discussion will focus on the ABC Model of Crisis Intervention and other therapies that are used when working in this field.
When you are ready, please respond to the Discussion questions this week. Remember to respond to at least two classmates with comments that forward the discussion.
Discuss one of the acts that played into the history of prevention and crisis intervention. What gave rise to this change in the history of crisis intervention? Pick one of the topics to discuss in detail: the suicide prevention movement, the Community Mental Health Act, the Lanterman Petris Short Act, or Psychiatric Emergency Treatment. How did these acts/movements change the role of prevention and crisis intervention in the United States?
There are five main approaches to crisis intervention:
Psychoanalytic
Humanistic
Existential
Cognitive-behavioral
Family-systems model
Which of these approaches could you see yourself using as a crisis-intervention worker? Why? Provide an example of how you would use this approach in your work.
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