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Category: Crisis Response
Crisis Response was designed to provide clergy students with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and temporarily intervene in a helpful and effective way in a crisis situation.
Crisis Response, #10 (Maryland)
Compile and submit a list of mainstream resources providing crisis services available in your locality. Additionally, explore your locality for a hotline number to access emergency services and discuss the results of your search. (Please provide the following information for each resource listed a) name of resource b) contact information c) how to make a […]
Crisis Response, #9
Discuss how the skills required of ADF clergy in ritual, especially those which involve mitigating chaos and generating order, might relate to those necessary for appropriately responding to an emergency situation (minimum 100 words). Clergy, in my opinion, act as the keepers of ritual. They are the messengers between the folk and the Kindred, the […]
Crisis Response, #8
Discuss an example of a crisis situation to which you have responded (this may be a crisis you have personally experienced or an experience in which you tried to help someone else in crisis). Reflect upon your response to the crisis in your example, and explain what you found effective, as well as how you […]
Crisis Response, #7
Discuss why an individual in crisis might seek an ADF clergy person for help and explain whether or not you feel this is an appropriate function for ADF clergy, why or why not? (minimum 200 words) When people experience a crisis situation that leaves them looking for answers that they simply are finding, it’s common […]
Crisis Response, #6
Choose four of the seven common misconceptions about suicide from the list below and discuss why each is a misconception. (minimum 50 words each) Anyone who tries to kill himself/herself must be crazy. According to SAVE, the misconception that anyone who attempts to kill themselves is crazy is not a sign that the individual is […]
Crisis Response, #5
List and discuss at least five suicide warning signs. Explain how you would respond if you were assisting an individual exhibiting one or more of these signs. (minimum 50 words each warning sign and minimum 100 words for response). There are an array of warning signs to look for in terms of suicide (Symptoms and […]
Crisis Response, #4
Discuss how an individual’s ability to appropriately cope and/or problem solve may be affected by crisis and explain the process you would use to assist this individual. (100 words). When affected by a crisis, people will very often be clouded by the stress and lose their mental stability and logical nature. In an attempt to […]
Crisis Response, #3
Describe at least five possible events or situations that may cause an individual to experience a crisis in his or her life. (minimum 100 words) Loss of Home due to Foreclosure or Eviction: Losing a home due to foreclosure or eviction is a significant crisis in an individual’s life. I got to experience this in 2008 when […]
Crisis Response, #2
Describe at least three different categories of emergency situations and provide a clear example of each. Please ensure you include a source citation. (minimum 50 words each). Financial Emergency A financial or personal emergency is one that affects us directly in our small sphere of the universe with no adverse affects on our community or country as […]
