Crisis intervention is an important psychological care that is aimed at helping a person during a stressful situation in an effort of restoring the biopsychosocial equilibrium functioning and minimize the associated trauma. It is thus, important for counselors to determine the best appropriate approaches when dealing with clients facing difficult situations and it is helpful to have a working framework. Ranking the five crisis intervention counseling models the equilibrium model comes first followed by the cognitive, psychological, developmental-ecological and the contextual ecological model should come last (Myer, Lewis & James, 2013). In that order, the models follow each other accordingly to help the client during the transitioning process. However depending on the type of client, the order can be changed to fit the particular situation.
The order ranking of the crisis intervention models fits the situation presented in the case study. The client is facing a difficult situation as he witnessed his brother being killed about a month ago and he is in denial. He has not accepted the reality and moving on with his life has become a challenge. The equilibrium-counseling model will be important in helping the client obtain the pre-crisis equilibrium and it is often adopted during the early intervention period. This will be followed by the cognitive model that will be important in enhancing the client’s awareness of the situation while helping him change his perceptions towards the murder. The psychosocial model will be helpful in assisting the client move away from the perceived problems that lead to the crisis while providing support to the customer’s choices made. The developmental-ecological model will be helpful in considering the client's developmental stage during the intervention process while the contextual ecological models will aid in the identification of the crisis impact and events relationship to the customer to determine the time and changes needed in the healing process. This intervention approach is necessary as it helps in restoring the client confidence while providing new coping mechanisms to the individual (Miller, 2012).
References
Miller, G. A. (2012). Fundamentals of crisis counseling. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons.
Myer, R., Lewis, J. S.,& James, R. K. (2013). The introduction of a task model for crisis intervention. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 35(2), 95-107.
