Definition

1. Noun:
   • A form of psychotherapy focused on acute critical situations: "Crisis intervention" refers to immediate, short-term psychological care aimed at helping individuals who are experiencing an event that produces emotional, mental, physical, and behavioral distress or problems. The primary goal is to restore the person to their level of functioning prior to the crisis.
   • Immediate assistance during a psychological emergency: It involves professional techniques to provide stabilization, reduce symptoms, and improve coping strategies in the face of a traumatic event or a severe emotional breakdown.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • After the traumatic accident, the victim received immediate crisis intervention from a trained counselor.
  • The hospital has a dedicated team for crisis intervention to help patients who have attempted suicide.
  • The school psychologist provided crisis intervention to students following a violent incident on campus.

Advanced Usage

• "to provide crisis intervention": to offer immediate psychological support during an emergency.
  • The hotline volunteers are trained to provide crisis intervention to callers in distress.
• "crisis intervention model": a specific framework or protocol used to guide the intervention process.
  • The team applied a standard crisis intervention model to assess and stabilize the situation.
• "crisis intervention services": programs or resources designed to deliver immediate psychological help.
  • The community center offers free crisis intervention services 24 hours a day.

Variants and Related Words

• Crisis (n): A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger.
  • The country is facing an economic crisis.
• Intervention (n): The action or process of intervening.
  • The teacher's intervention helped resolve the conflict between the students.
• Crisis counselor (n): A professional who specializes in providing crisis intervention.
  • She spoke to a crisis counselor on the phone.

Synonyms

• Emergency psychological care: Immediate mental health support.
• Psychological first aid: Initial emotional and practical support given to someone in crisis.
• Acute stress management: Techniques to handle severe, short-term stress.

Related Phrases

• Crisis hotline: A telephone service offering immediate crisis intervention.
  • If you're feeling suicidal, please call a crisis hotline.
• Crisis response team: A group of professionals mobilized to handle a crisis situation.
  • The crisis response team was dispatched to the scene of the disaster.

Noun

1. psychotherapy that focuses on acute critical situations (depressive episodes or attempted suicides or drug overdoses) with the aim of restoring the person to the level of functioning before the crisis