Support in Psychological Crisis
Support in Psychological Crisis
PFA – Psychological First Aid – intervention model recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO)
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Moving on from crisis
Regaining Access to Your Resources and Returning to Psychological Norm
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Prevention of mental disorders
Preventing the development of depression, addictions, disorders
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Post-crisis growth
Reaching a higher level of emotional maturity and life satisfaction
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius
Crisis support is the opportunity to quickly receive psychological first aid in difficult moments.
Short-term psychological support enables a person in crisis to move towards a return to psychological norm. It also has a preventive dimension, i.e. in crisis situations it counteracts disorders, the development of depression, pathology and addictions.
Under professional care, a crisis can be a turning point in a person’s life and push them towards the necessary changes to reach a higher level of life quality. It allows not only to “cope” with everyday functioning, but also to build a life full of meaning and good relationships, which leads to fulfillment.
What is a psychological crisis?
Crisis is a normal reaction of a healthy person to a difficult situation or critical event that exceeds one’s ability to cope with it. A crisis throws us out of our natural balance and temporarily changes the way we function, yet it is not a disorder or pathology. In a psychological crisis, we experience difficulties in various areas of our functioning: at the level of thoughts, emotions, behaviors and sensations in the body and physical condition. Each person’s reaction to a crisis is individual, there is no point in comparing oneself to others. Crisis can be caused, among other things, by one tragic event or a series of repetitive, painful experiences (like mobbing or gaslighting).
When facing family crisis, children and parents do not need more diagnoses or labels, but more understanding and supportive environment, new competences in communicating and constructively meeting their psychological needs. This is the kind of support that crisis specialist offers in difficult situations, helping to first get out of the crisis and then use this experience to grow.
In the case of family crises, parents gain new parenting competences through psychoeducation and a better understanding of their needs and emotions, and in the process they can develop new, constructive patterns of responding to them. This path of personal development allows to develop a sense of agency in the face of future challenges, which the family will undoubtedly have to face more than once in the future. The beneficiaries of such work are the Client and their environment, especially children.
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