The hybrid model of crisis intervention is an integrated problem solving process to crisis intervention that does not follow in a linear, step-wise fashion.

CIT Training for Officers

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The hybrid model of crisis intervention is an integrated problem solving process to crisis intervention that does not follow in a linear, step-wise fashion. Overarching all tasks is safety-not only for the client, but for others and the worker as well. Making initial contact in a crisis is not always easy. The designated predispositioning, engaging, and initiating contact are primary tasks that were developed to lay the foundation for the intervention to follow. Problem exploration includes affective, behavioral, and cognitive dimensions of the current crisis (Gilliland & James, 2013, pg. 72).

Please review the Hybrid Model of Crisis Intervention.

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Predispositioning/engaging/initiating contact

Problem exploration

Providing support

Examining alternatives

Planning

Obtaining commitment

Follow-up

Additional key terms:

Equilibrium: a state of mental or emotional stability, balance, or poise in an organism.

Disequilibrium: Lack or destruction of emotional stability, balance, or poise in an organism

Mobility: a state of physical being in which the person can autonomously change or cope in response to different moods, feeling, emotions, needs, conditions, influences; being flexible or adaptable to the physical or social world.

Immobility: A state of physical being in which the person is not capable of autonomously changing or coping in response to different moods, feelings, emotions, needs, conditions, influences; inability to adapt to the immediate and physical world.