Social Work and Disasters by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Social Work, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781351612135
Google: jTmDDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-11T03:45:21+00:00

Crisis intervention

Crisis intervention is critical to post-disaster practice and is a familiar form of intervention by social workers. It involves reacting quickly to a threatening situation that requires immediate intervention. Crisis intervention is very much focused on current circumstances and on the immediate issues facing an individual, family, group or community. As Payne (2014) notes, crisis intervention assumes that people live in a ‘steady state’ that can be disrupted by a crisis. The aim of the intervention then is to restore as much as possible this steady state. Payne (2005: 98) describes crises as

turning points in people’s lives when precipitating hazardous events lead to rising distress, upsetting the steady state in which previous coping mechanisms dealt with problems. This process leads to a state of active crisis.

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