Crisis Intervention in Schools

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This paper explains that the issue of security has become so crucial in the schools that security has priority above gaining knowledge; natural calamities, hostility, bereavement, abuse of armaments, mishaps, and threats of suicide are considered disasters that interfere with the schooling process and with the psychological development of children. The author points out that, first, in the process of counseling the victimized student, it is the duty of the worker to permit the fullest possible expression of emotions, giving no room for implications and assumptions. The paper relates that, because of an emerging trend towards occurrences of campus crisis, educators all over the country, as well as globally, are striving to organize School Crisis Response Teams and Critical Incident Crisis Intervention Teams.

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"Differing orders of events with the victims takes place at the critical conditions depending upon the call of the situations and some times simultaneous occurrence of the several steps together is noticed. Most commonly, students are noticed to display the indications of tension like the adults in response to the psychological reactions to the loss suffered out of the disastrous event. Even though such tensions can not be totally evaded, however means exist for minimization of the magnitude of the influence of the crisis on the victimized students and teachers with providing assistance on adjusting to the changing circumstances. Varied indications occur with the advancement in the age and maturity of the child. Taking all these factors into consideration, emphasis should be made on the security and in pursuit of the wider objectives of the students."

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