Instructors: Wafaie
Selim, MD, MA, LSW
Home # (330) 533- 3099
Cell # (330) 881-5116
Email
coolfoo1@zoominternet.net
Carol
Mansour,
MS, LMFT, LPC
Cell # (214) 418- 1597
Home# (972)
355-3496
Email: mansourch@lisd.net
Course Description:
“Students will explore
definitions, theories, and practice of crisis intervention
as it is practiced in Church-based systems and networks.
Grief, illness, accidents, violent death, and related crises
will be examined. Students will look at theological
frameworks for doing this kind of ministry, and develop
integrative syntheses for themselves. The class will examine
the role of culture, race, and ethnicity in crisis
intervention. Students, for example, will understand the
unique stressors recent immigrants confront. In addition,
students will become familiar with the role of culture,
ethnicity, and race in issues of depression, schizophrenia,
violence, and illness and death and dying.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, the
students will be able:
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To formulate a theological
framework for the role of the Christian counselor in
crisis intervention.
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To identify major pastoral
developmental and situational crises encountered in the
Church and its community.
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To select and properly use
assessment and intervention tools for effective
intervention of these crises.
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To be familiar with the
psychological and physiological reactions to a critical
incident.
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To recognize the “crisis of
faith” when Church members encounter crises, and to
minister to them.
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To formulate plans for
crisis intervention in the Church.
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To understand principles of
Critical Incident Stress Management and its relationship
to crisis intervention in the Church.
Required Text:
Wright, Norman H. The New
Guide to Crisis & Trauma Counseling. Ventura, CA: Regal
Books, 2003.
Recommended Text:
Hoff, Lee Ann. People in
Crisis: Understanding and Helping. 4th ed.
Redwood, CA: Jossey- Bass, 1995.
On-Site Lesson Schedule:
Introduction, what is a
theory, Crisis Intervention Theory, and Crisis Intervention
Model.
Distance Learning Lesson
Schedule:
Week 1:
Theological perspective of crisis.
Reading: Wright Introduction &
Chapter 1
Week 2:
Physiology of trauma and loss.
Reading: Chapter 10
Week 3:
Nature and phases of crises.
Reading: Chapters 7-8
Week 4:
Counseling skills & crisis intervention.
Reading: Chapters 2-3, 9
Week 5:
Recovery from loss.
Reading: Chapters 4-6
Week 6:
Unexpected loss & trauma.
Reading: Chapter 11
Week 7:
Working with the Depressed Client.
Visit:
www.mentalhealth.com/bookah/p44-dq.html#Head2
Week 8:
Death and suicide.
Reading: Chapters 12-15
Week 9:
Working with the Client with
Schizophrenia.
Visit:
www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/schizoph.htm
Week10:
Crises in children and families
Reading: Chapters 16-20
Week 11:
Role of the Church and Community.
Reading: Wright Conclusion &
Appendix
Week 12:
Write a 12-15 pages paper on a
client that you had personally or read
about who had a crisis. Please follow the
outline below for your paper.
I.
Write a short profile and description of your client
(i.e., gender, age, ethnicity, marital status,
etc.). Remember no real names.
II.
Description of client’s presenting problem. Be sure
to describe the crisis event, and classify the type
of crisis event (i.e., developmental or situational
or traumatic). Explain why this situation is
considered a crisis.
VI.
Describe the types of interventions you employed
with the client (and if applicable, family). Did you
have to take into account culture, race, and
ethnicity? How so?
Grading Scale:
A > 90
B 80- 89
C 70- 79
D 60- 69
F < 60
Course Requirement:
- Weekly summary and
reflection on the assigned
reading in 2-3 pages long by the end of
each week. Final grade value 5% each
- Final paper. Final
grade value 30%
- Attending, being
ready and participating in class
discussion during the On-Site Lesson.
Final grade value 15%
