2025
Crisis Intervention
Name: Crisis Intervention
Code: PSI11155M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Psychology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
To acquire knowledge about theories and models of crisis intervention
To understand the possibilities, difficulties and limits of crisis intervention
To acquire knowledge about stress, resilience and trauma, and to train some evaluation and intervention competencies and skills
To become able to apply crisis intervention strategies to specific hypothetical cases.
To understand the possibilities, difficulties and limits of crisis intervention
To acquire knowledge about stress, resilience and trauma, and to train some evaluation and intervention competencies and skills
To become able to apply crisis intervention strategies to specific hypothetical cases.
Contents
1. Crisis Intervention: Scope and limits
1.1 Stress, Trauma and Resilience
1.2 Personal and Contextual Resources
2. Crisis Intervention Models
3. Basic Crisis Intervention Skills
3.1 The A-B-C Model (Kanel, 2018)
4. Crisis Cases: Handling specific cases
4.1 Psychological Crises
4.2 Child and family crisis
4.3 Disaster and catastrophe crisis
1.1 Stress, Trauma and Resilience
1.2 Personal and Contextual Resources
2. Crisis Intervention Models
3. Basic Crisis Intervention Skills
3.1 The A-B-C Model (Kanel, 2018)
4. Crisis Cases: Handling specific cases
4.1 Psychological Crises
4.2 Child and family crisis
4.3 Disaster and catastrophe crisis
Teaching Methods
Using examples and using expository and interrogative methodologies, the teacher gives a brief introduction to the topics.
Within the scope of the discipline and the specific interests of the students, each small group is provided with hypothetical cases and a set of texts that are intended to serve as a starting point for in-depth bibliographical research, in order to answer the questions and resolve the problems that, concrete cases of crisis intervention, pose in a specific situation.
It is also intended that each small group will dramatize (role-play) a situation and model what the role of the Psychologist may be in a specific situation.
The work of the groups is monitored and discussed with the teacher and is presented and discussed with the class. Students will have the opportunity to train and develop in classes through modeling some of the basic crisis intervention skills (assessment, emotional regulation, problem solving).
Within the scope of the discipline and the specific interests of the students, each small group is provided with hypothetical cases and a set of texts that are intended to serve as a starting point for in-depth bibliographical research, in order to answer the questions and resolve the problems that, concrete cases of crisis intervention, pose in a specific situation.
It is also intended that each small group will dramatize (role-play) a situation and model what the role of the Psychologist may be in a specific situation.
The work of the groups is monitored and discussed with the teacher and is presented and discussed with the class. Students will have the opportunity to train and develop in classes through modeling some of the basic crisis intervention skills (assessment, emotional regulation, problem solving).
Assessment
n the continuous assessment system, each student is assessed through written group work and presentation (60% of the grade) and participation in practical classes (modeling and dramatization), self-assessment and feedback given to colleagues (40% of the grade).
In the final assessment system, the assessment is made through a final written test on the fundamental contents of the UC (60% of the grade) and a written discussion of the intervention in a hypothetical case (40%).
In the final assessment system, the assessment is made through a final written test on the fundamental contents of the UC (60% of the grade) and a written discussion of the intervention in a hypothetical case (40%).
Teaching Staff
- Catarina Marques Silveira Vaz Velho [responsible]
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