Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Discusses the phases of situation crisis intervention. Designed to allow both in-service professionals (police and public safety officers, public safety support personnel, EMTs, firefighters, emergency 911 dispatchers, etc.) and Administration of Justice students short practice sessions on Crisis Intervention and how to approach potentially dangerous situations while in an official capacity.
 

• Assess the difficult or dangerous person and select appropriate techniques for crisis intervention.
• Turn destructive behavior into productive behavior while in an official capacity.

• Various individual and/or group skill building activities such as role-plays, case studies, or other exercises geared toward critical analysis of course concepts.
• Written assignments or oral reports designed to integrate course material into personal experience or experiences of others.
• Exams comprised of essay and/or objective questions, or an individual and/or team project or paper which requires integration, application, and critical examination of course concepts, issues, and themes.

COMPETENCIES/SKILLS:  

• Appropriate communication techniques 
• Pre-assess prior to confronting
• Approaches to potentially volatile non-verbal behavior
• Identify expressions of anger
• Select appropriate techniques for dealing with anger
• Turning destructive behavior into productive behavior

CONCEPTS, THEMES & ISSUES:
General Concepts
Crisis intervention
Communication
Problem solving
Being prepared
Volatile behavior
Suppression
Open aggression
Passive aggression
Anger
Themes
Crisis intervention
Being prepared

Issues
Maintaining a calm environment
Controlling non-verbal behavior