COUN 19: Crisis Intervention
  3 credit hours

 Instructors: MANAL A. SOUS, M.D.
                    Tel:   OFFICE#201-848-0700, Cell # 973-801-6472           

                    Email: mnlsous@gmail.com

Wafaie M Selim, MD, MA, LSW

                     Home Phone (330) 533-3099

                      Cell Phone (330) 881-5116

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 to:
 1.    formulate a theological framework for the role of the Christian
 counselor in crisis intervention.
 2.    Identify major pastoral developmental and situational crises
 encountered in the Church and its community.
 3.    Select and properly use assessment and intervention tools for
 effective intervention of these crises.
 4.    To be familiar with the psychological and physiological reactions
 to a critical incident.
 5.     Recognize the “crisis of faith” when Church members encounter
 crises, and to minister to them.
6.     Formulate plans for crisis intervention in the Church.
 7.     Understand principles of Critical Incident Stress Management and
 its relationship to crisis intervention in the Church.

 Required Text:
  The New Guide to Crisis & Trauma Counseling, By Wright, Norman H
 Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 2003. ISBN #13:978-0-8307-32418
 STUDY GUIDE:
 POCKET GUIDE TO CRISIS INTERVENTION, BY ALBERT R. ROBERT AND KENNETH R. YEAGER

 ISBN # 978-0-19-538290-7



 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.
III.                Map out the client’s crisis event, using the major
assumption of crisis theory.
IV.               Discuss how culture, race, and ethnicity play a role
in the help-seeking process and/or symptom _expression.
V.                 Describe your assessment phase with the client.
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
                   
                 
                   A,B is needed to get  credit for the class

Course Requirement:
       - Weekly summary and reflection on the assigned class with
formulation of
         Clinical case   each will be 5% of final grade
       - Final paper of formulating case studies of all assigned
classes will be graded
        40% the grade .you will be provided by quiz after each class
for practice