PSY 651 - Crisis Intervention

This course is designed to provide the student with grounded understanding of the fundamentals of crisis management and crisis leadership. Students will develop an understanding of salient theories and practices designed to effectively and quickly respond to a variety of crises and related traumas. Students will examine historical and contemporary models of response with the goal of becoming knowledgeable of and skillful in crisis response and crisis management. Students will also develop understanding individual, familial, ethical, legal, cultural and diversity factors fostering and/or hindering effective response. Students will also examine their own biases to deepen necessary self-awareness needed for effective self-care and to combat compassion fatigue.