Supportive Intervention

Paper Summary:

The paper looks at how supportive intervention, also referred to as crisis intervention, means that the caregiver uses certain short-term and immediate methods to support and help those individuals who have experienced any incident or event that produces emotional, mental, physical or behavioral distress. The paper concludes that both conceptually and clinically, it is extremely important to encourage more links between trauma and grief thus acknowledging the inevitable overlap between the two.

From the Paper:

"In one study by Strobe, undertaken to assess the outcomes of the counseling offered by support groups and others, a method was developed, wherein the extent to which an individual would confront or avoid their losses, and the outcomes of this confrontation were measured. It was found that lower scores for a widow did not influence the outcome, and for a widower, a lower score predicted a poorer outcome. However, this fact became very obvious: that early intervention, offered by a professional clinician, is a very good idea in the immediate aftermath of a disaster or a trauma."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ambrose, Jeannette. "Traumatic Grief, what we need to know as Trauma Responders" Retrieved From http://www.ctsn-rcst.ca/Traumaticgrief.html Accessed 15 July, 2006
• Christie, Grace. (2000) "Healing Children's Grief, surviving a parent's death from cancer" Oxford University Press US.
• "Crisis Intervention" Retrieved From http://www.minddisorders.com/Br-Del/Crisis-intervention.html Accessed 14 July, 2006
• Davidson, Joyce D. (1999) "Living with Grief, at work, at school, at worship" Psychology Press (UK)
• "Death with Dignity" Retrieved From http://www.growthhouse.org/dignity.html Accessed 23 July, 2006

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