Chapter 7 – Crisis Color Crisis always has a mood or color. The psychiatric literature frequently refers to this dimension of people in crisis as…
Part II Crisis Communication Chapter 6 The Communication Loop The crisis intervention process proceeds on multiple levels. For those with little understanding of crisis and…
This episode of the Audio Tidbits Podcast is a remix of an earlier episode that suggests an approach to people and situations that reduces any…
Chapter 5 – The Intervention Set At this point, we have combined an understanding of the crisis state with an insight into people in crisis.…
Chapter 4 – The Assessment Set Crises are not always what they seem to be. For example, Michelle is in what might be considered a…
Chapter 3 – The Crisis State Initially, it may be difficult to make the conceptual transition from “conflict” to “crisis.” If so, the difficulty probably…
To the inexperienced observer, “crisis” and “the individual in crisis” represent nearly equivalent notions. We say that an individual is “suicidal.” Why? Because he is…
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Plutarch One may assume that Plutarch…
You likely know Theodore Roosevelt said, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” He also said, “The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit…
The title tells the story. Let’s spend a few minutes thinking about just why some of us are usually up-tight and feeling frantic while others…