Modeling and Visualization for Crisis

Question: Discuss about the Modeling and Visualization for Crisis. Answer: Introduction: Mrs. Samantha Jones called the crisis intervention team shelter at about 11 o clock at the clinic late night. While making the appointment, she was sobbing and was unable to breathe properly. She was calling from her neighbors house where she took shelter in the night after a violence attack on her by her abusive husband after heavy dose of alcohol consumption. She complained that she was beaten by her husband and had to flee from there to save her life. The best option she could think of was her friend cum neighbors place where she stayed for the night and contacted the crisis intervention team. She was both emotionally and physically broken and was on the verge of self harm. Her friend was not present at that time to sooth her and she called the centre to provide her solutions to come out of the problem. She was also howling and was having frequent bursts of tears in the middle of conversations. Her voice was hardly understood as her breaths were masking them. A crisis which is created in the life of an individual due to assaults, harassment, sudden death or other circumstances have a huge effect on the physical health of an individual. Any sort of harassment whether mental or physical can have a combined effect on the physical well being of an individual. Aches and pains such as backaches, headaches may accompany other symptoms like weakness, dizziness and fatigue. The victim may also be able be affected by increased heart palpitations, profuse sweating and chills with changes in sleep patterns. Loss of appetite, digestive problem and increased susceptibility to allergies, colds and illnesses are also observed in similar cases. Behavioral alterations are soon observed in individuals who have gone through above mentioned stresses and therefore certain modifications are seen in the life of the victim due to loss of stability and psychological homeostasis. They may easily get startled by noises or unexpected touches and similar movements. They tend to be scared with any objects or situations that remind them of the trauma. These are mainly because the events remind them of the trauma which trigger feelings that were triggered during the unfaithful event that occurred in her life.They may alter their life courses and take on habits which in turn prove to be harmful for their lives like excessive alcohol consumption or substance abuse. This is because they these habits tend to make them free from depression and to fight the circumstances. This in turn leads to addiction and mental health disorders.The victim may also experience flashbacks of the unfortunate events where they seem to go through the events that oc curred in her life even when she do not want to creating a state of illusion. Often nightmares may occur when they try to sleep resulting in lack of sleep that in turn creates an irritating behaviour within the victim (Hoefer Chigbu, 2015). A victims cognitive thinking ability gets hampered and as a result of which the balance of the life is lost along with the intelligence and capability to lead a quality life. The victim starts blaming herself or others as the reason of the trauma which she is facing. The victim becomes hypersensitive and even confused and feels loss of control over life. The victims develop a poor concentration due to mental pressures. She loses the ability of proper troubleshooting and therefore always experiences an uncertainty with life. The important 7 steps that are required by the counselors to correctly judge the situation of the victim and the trauma faced by her in an organized manner so that the problems faced by her can be evaluated in a systematic way and best solutions can be given to her for betterment of her life without missing any single minute incident: The professional should introduce herself to the victim seeking feedback from the victim and at the same time showing concern for the trauma that had brought her to the team. She might ask open ended questions along with addressing her feelings at the time of querying about the reason of the victims visit. The professionals should show concern so that sense of comfort and trust can be built in the victim. This step would include a detailed discussion of the past and present circumstances, which had led to a crisis in the life of the victim. During such discussion, the client should be given freedom to discuss the events in her own words so an idea of the intensity and evaluation of the present scenario can be assessed (James Gilliland, 2012). This might contain question like, Samantha, what do you think, why has this situation arisen in your life?, Why do you think that your husband has become so rude and insensitive these days? This step mainly includes providing the victims with suggestions about how to approach the situation under the present circumstances. The counselor may provide comfort like, Samantha, it is very sad to get such treatment from a life partner of 10 years. Or it is astonishing to see that you have handled the situation in a much better way and you should not lose hope and confidence from yourself.. The counselor should try to help her by providing alternative solution like Would you suggest that the team should have an interaction with your husband or would you like togo for a vacation to get over your stresses and similar others. Proper planning with the client can also be conducted with the client to help her come out of the situation and help her to gain stability back in life like Okay. Well, maybe we can try to make both of you come to counseling sessions so that we can try and communicate both of you to realize the issues . The counselor should try to reassure that the client has understood the interventions and take steps accordingly. This can be understood from the commitment she would give although it is a very tough job (Erber, 2014). Questions like I understand that it would be difficult but for your betterment you should try communicating and resolving matters. Or Its in your hands to decide what you want to do but the solutions provided would help you.. This usually includes evaluating the brief summary of the entire session of the plan and what would be done before the next meet like So tell me now what you feel what you want to do now. How have you decided to cope with the matter till next meeting A large number of challenges are faced by the counselors while providing solutions and calming the victims with the help of the 7 hybrid task models introduced by Myer, James Moulton in the year 2011. As it is already knows crisis intervention is never linear and is often represented as a chaos with no proper organized discourse and process of evaluation .Hence the above mentioned model is produced by the researchers which can be conducted over the media like telephones to protect the victims from immediate crisis. Therefore applying this model for segmenting and proper arranging of the events and the interventions are not always easy as it seems. This is mainly because of the fact that providing intervention and support to a certain issue of the victim may result in rise of another associated issue which also requires similar significance for attainment (France, 2015). It is just like controlling a psychological brush fire on a particular side of a mountain only to reveal that simi lar such fire has also been affecting the other parts of the mountain. Therefore handling such continuous issues in a clear, progressive and linear plan seems an easy task but is often found to be hard and strenuous. In case of Samantha it was seen that after providing solution to her husbands violent behaviour, it was seen that she is already a patient of chronic depression and is insomniac due to pressure of workplace and cannot rest. This problem also needed to be addressed because only then she would be able to live a happy and quality life. This again called for more time and dedication for her case because providing her with no solution to her following issue would be immoral and unethical. The client can never be blamed for not disclosing all the information in the beginning due to her stressful situation. Other Problem that often remains associated with such issues like arranging the task interventions in a discrete ways following from one step to next step and so on with significant different techniques to apply for each one. Many issues may arise in crisis intervention that may not follow the proper discrete mannerisms of the hybrid model (Brecher Wilkenfield, 2014). Although Mrs. Samanthas case did not face such issues but it might have happened where she could have reached a point of self harm. In that respect, obtaining commitment not to hurt her would be the first criteria rather than maintain the previous step in order to save her life. A counselor often tend to change tool according to the needs which often becomes a challenge because this steps need quick thinking in emergency situations and taking steps accordingly. In many cases, it is also seen that many of the clients are not cooperative, hide facts, talk respectfully and even do not act. In such cases, the ability of a counselor to provide empathetic feelings and at the same time be authentic to the person without being pretentious becomes difficult. It was seen in Samanthas case that she hid many crucial facts about herself when discussing her issues and were sobbing too much that she could barely talk. Therefore it was a challenge on the part of the counselor to handle her efficiently. Moreover establishing personal and psychosocial relationship with the clients over electronic media is very difficult because evaluations and assessing emotions of the client becomes very difficult. A large number of challenges are been reported by various counselors and are even being reported at present and hence researchers are working on such challenges to bring out ways to tackle such situations. In order to overcome the various challenges, a counselor has to tactfully decide her steps while providing interventions in the crisis arrangement. The counselor should be properly initiating the conversation with the client while introducing herself efficiently because this is the most critical stage of the entire model. The contact should be made in such a way so that the client finds the representative as an immediate ally and mate rather than taking them as a representative of the bureaucracies and institutional authorities in a long line who are unable to interpret what they want to mean (Dinakar et al., 2015). In case of Samantha, the counselor should at first try to make her calm through various steps and then when her sobbing has subsided, she would be asked to open her heart to the counselor. Establishing a psychological connection after creating a proper method of communication is an important step along with the clarification of the intentions about what will be happening. The counselors should have the quality of properly throwing open end questions as well as close end questions so that he can properly assess the the present situation of the client and his questions should be such that the client does not get the scope of forgetting out any facts that could be valuable to hid providing solutions. In this way, issues will be tackled together at the same time rather than new issues coming after solving one issue. The counselor should have the capability to understand the situation from the clients point of view and make an overall analysis of her situation. This should be done by done by counselor from the perspective of her client with the implementation of the core listening skills. Following this the counselor should define the entire summary of the situation including immediate conditions, parties and issues so that the clients coming up with the new issues can be prevented thereby providing minimal timing for solution of a case without jamming the telephonic line to attend the next client (Spittal et al., 2015). A psychosocial and physical support is very important which helps in establishing bonds with the clients and this requires caliber and authority so that the client is influenced by the counselor in acting according to the service provider. This would help handling clients who are non cooperative, cannot act or cannot express theory feeling openly. This can be achieved not only by providing emotional support but also providing instrumental and logical information so that the patient is benefitted from all aspects. In case of Samantha, one can see that she is not only facing physical and mental assault but is also having stresses and depression due to work pressures and is consuming alcohol. Therefore a combined plan of emotional, physician and mental intervention should be provided. Cases where step by step involvement is not possible, the counselor should implement strategies keeping in mind the life of the individual first and then save her from any sort of life risks (Rodda et al., 2015). All over it can be seen that in order to overcome various challenges while using the 7 hybrid tasks, it is not always possible to learn all the alternatives to the challenges faced by the counselors. In such cases, an inherent idea and application of the experience of client handling should be exhibited to overcome any challenge faced and ultimately help the clients. References: Brecher, M., Wilkenfeld, J. (2014).A study of crisis. University of Michigan Press. 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