HUSV 379: Crisis Intervention in Human Services

Course Description

This course focuses on the situational analysis of crisis in clients and client group experiences, and the intervention necessary to mitigate such crisis situations. The course will offer a comprehensive introduction to crisis and crisis intervention as a human services response, together with the option to focus broadly on related situations of crisis including domestic abuse, suicide, disasters, & trauma, kidnapping, grief and bereavement, serious illness and disability, workplace and schoolhouse violence, substance abuse, cults, critical incident stress, etc. These subjects are of course, not inclusive of every possible critical incident where crisis intervention skills can be used. However, they cover some of the most common ones encountered within the venues of human services practice. The course will place emphasis on the lived experience of clients and client groups in which human services professionals may find themselves. The purpose is to provide a blending of empirically-based academic theory with practical, real world approaches on handling the most pressing and contemporary critical incidents in human services agencies today.