Crisis Management Basics for Paraprofessionals
Clients who have behavioral health crises can be found in various healthcare settings. Settings range from inpatient to outpatient, rural to urban, and pediatric to geriatric. These crises seem to “come out of nowhere” and can throw you into a reactive state. Unless you understand how crises develop and have the skills and tools to address them, crises can place you in unsafe situations. As a behavioral health paraprofessional, you have a vital role in helping clients manage their crises.
This course will teach you how to think of crises as developing events that should be carefully addressed with specific approaches. You will learn detailed strategies for how to prevent the development of crises. You will also learn how to effectively intervene when clients are experiencing a crisis. This course also details how to help the individuals you are serving learn from crises so that they can use coping skills and support networks more effectively when they face stressful events in the future.
The goal of this course is to provide paraprofessionals in health and human services with information on how to identify, prevent, and safely intervene during behavioral health crises.
Clients who have behavioral health crises can be found in various healthcare settings. Settings range from inpatient to outpatient, rural to urban, and pediatric to geriatric. These crises seem to “come out of nowhere” and can throw you into a reactive state. Unless you understand how crises develop and have the skills and tools to address them, crises can place you in unsafe situations. As a behavioral health paraprofessional, you have a vital role in helping clients manage their crises. This course will teach you how to think of crises as developing events that should be carefully addressed with specific approaches. You will learn detailed strategies for how to prevent the development of crises. You will also learn how to effectively intervene when clients are experiencing a crisis. This course also details how to help the individuals you are serving learn from crises so that they can use coping skills and support networks more effectively when they face stressful events in the future. The goal of this course is to provide paraprofessionals in health and human services with information on how to identify, prevent, and safely intervene during behavioral health crises.
