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Crisis Intervention

Overview

High School students – have you ever wanted to be a better helper with friends or relatives in crisis? Learn how to listen, learn the basics of crisis identification, and also learn when and how to refer someone in crisis to professional helpers. Empower your abilities to care!
This honor is available only to clubs inside the North American Division. For those outside the North American Division, use the AY Honor Conflict Resolution honor instead.

Investiture Achievement Connection: This Honor is related to the Investiture Achievement requirements for GUIDE Serving Others which require the Pathfinder choose to complete selected requirements from among several Honors, including this Honor.. The Advanced Ribbon requires completion of a selected Honor, of which this is one of the options.

Requirements

1. Be at least in the 10th grade.

2. Explain how Christ encouraged people in crisis in at least two of the following Bible stories. Identify the nature of the crisis or human needs in each story that you explain.

  • a. John 8:1-11 (Mary Magdalene)
  • b. Luke 15:11-32
  • c. Luke 8:40-56
  • d. Matthew 8:1-22

3. Describe for your instructor some of the human needs and crisis situations that teenagers in your community face today. Describe some of the crisis situations that families face. This may be done in a group discussion setting.

4. Discuss your own motives for wanting to help your friends when they face personal or family crisis. What about strangers? This may be done in a group discussion setting.

5. Describe the types of human needs and give a real-life example of each.

6. Explain the steps in crisis intervention process and apply each step to a case study supplied by your instructor.

7. Demonstrate a grasp of basic listening skills by conducting an interview of at least 30 minutes duration. This interview must either be observed by an observer who can recognize listening skills, or taped for review by your instructor. The interview does not have to be with a person who is in crisis, but it must be a real conversation not pretend or role-playing.

8. Explain how to make a referral to a professional counselor or pastor.

Answer key & resources

In other territories

The equivalent honor approved by other authorities, with its own requirements:

Master awards

This honor counts toward:

Investiture Achievement

This honor is required, suggested or listed as an option in:

See also

Adapted from AY Honors/Crisis Intervention on the Pathfinder Wiki, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. See the original page's history for its authors.
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