Week 8: Crisis Intervention and Effects of Traumatic Events on Addiction

Helping professionals providing support to victims of trauma often encounter people who attempt to deal with their losses through self-medicating. One client may turn to alcohol to get to sleep at night. Another client may find relief for her constant anxiety through prescription medications. After losing his wife and two young children to a disaster, another client may blame himself for their deaths and seek to forget everything through abusing heroin.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

· Analyze the role of helping professionals in community recovery

· Analyze the impact of government regulations on the role of helping professionals in community recovery

· Analyze the influence of perceived crises on addiction

· Evaluate crisis intervention models

Learning Resources

Note:  To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the  Course Materials  section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Kewley, S. (2019). Changing identities through Staging Recovery: The role of community theatre in the process of recovery. The Arts in Psychotherapy,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2019.02.002

National Council for Behavioral Health (6AD). (February 2016). Behavioral Health Pros to Congress: Fund Addiction Recovery Bill, Expand Community Mental Health Network. Business Wire.

PR Newswire. (2018, April 24). Recovery Centers of America invites communities to unite against addiction. PR Newswire US.

San Luis, G., Hortensia, A., Avendaño, A., & Manuel, A. (2018). Barriers to addiction prevention and treatment in communities with organized crime: the perspective of health providers. Salud Mental, 41(2), 73-80.