You will follow the weekly news for the first weeks of this course looking for a situation in
which you will hypothetically respond as a crisis interventionist. For instance, it may be a news story of a bank robbery and you are called to debrief the bank teller and witnesses, or perhaps a house fire where a local family lost all of their belongings and you are called to meet with them.
● You will complete a 1250–1500-word paper.
● Your Current Events Paper Assignment should include a title page and reference page
and be written in current APA format.
● Your Current Events Paper Assignment will cover four primary sections.
○ Explore the nature of the crisis presented
○ Suggest steps for alleviating the crisis
○ Teach coping skills; and
○ Help the victim(s) develop resiliency
● You must include at least 1 citation of the textbook and at least 3 citations from an
outside scholarly source. Peer-reviewed articles count as scholarly sources. Websites do not count.
● Sources should be within 5 years.
● For the nature of the crisis section, be sure to identify the type of crisis, the people you’re likely going to need to prioritize for debriefing, and their likely symptoms.
● For steps for alleviating the crisis, use scholarly sources to support your approach to
crisis intervention for the scenario you cover. For example, you could use Mitchell’s
CISM model, the ABC Model outlined by Kanel, Basic Intervention Procedures
discussed by Wright, or find another approach not covered in the class to alleviate the
crisis. However, be sure to show outside support for that approach. If you cover prayer as a coping skill, you might want to find research on religious coping skills to support your approach.