Trauma-Informed Crisis Intervention

Abstract

ABSTRACT Preparing counselors to address a client’s needs in crisis and work from a trauma-informed lens is no longer an option. The United States is amid a pandemic and health care crisis; racial injustice and police brutality crisis; and an economic crisis. Counselors must work from a trauma-informed lens during crisis assessment, intervention, and stabilization to decrease re-traumatizing clients. The Seven-Stage Crisis Intervention Model (SSCIM) guides counselors to assess and stabilize clients in crisis. By infusing trauma-informed principles into this framework, counselors will have the tools they need to minimize the chances of re-traumatization.