1-Elevation, tension, obfuscation, isolation and distraction.
2-Mobilization, uncertainty, anger, efficiency decreases.
3-Increase tension, discriminate, mobilize, ask for help.
4-Disability: helps to know reality
Threat experiences due to an unexpected event that unbalances the psychological structure and cannot be handled with habitual mechanisms.
Decisive moment in the life of a person with lack of effectiveness in coping techniques The essential factor that determines the appearance of a crisis is the imbalance between the difficulty and the importance of the problem and the resources available.
Types of crisis
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- Evolutionary crisis:
Related to the development of maturation in the various stages of life.
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- Situational crisis: infrequent, but sudden, caused by external causes, sometimes beyond the control of the person, sudden changes trigger or enhance the appearance of crises Family conflicts Separation or divorce Continual changes of residence Sudden changes in work or responsibility Loss of health or illness, own or of relatives
Factors influencing the crisis
- Crisis response is determined by how people have learned to deal with it in the past. Response by support groups. Cultural guidelines and values.
Factors influencing the crisis
- Type of affective bond - linked to the loss Ability to evaluate realistically Health status, resistance, insomnia, anorexia Degree of personal maturity Intervening in a crisis means actively entering the life situation of the person who experiences it with the purpose to lessen the impact and help the person mobilize their own resources achieving stability
- Establish a therapeutic relationship of acceptance, support, empathy, which will reduce fear and reinforce positive expectations Encourage the expression of their feelings, that people express and recognize their fears
- Encourage them to clarify their perception of the situation It will help the person to do on their own what they can and evaluate what they can face, learn new actions to solve them
- Strengthen self-esteem and provide confidence in crisis management. Encourage family - social support, giving them confidence for crisis management and resolution.
Crisis Coping Skills
They identify alternative solutions to predict the probable consequences and search for solutions • find new sources of solution • practice independent behaviors
Cognitive habilyties
- Find the meaning and understand the meaning of an unexpected process, the result depends on the philosophy of life
Affective skills
- Control the feelings caused by the event and maintain a reasonable balance
- Discharge of emotions.
Psychosocial skills
- Be open to accepting the comfort and support of others
- Influence new information and coping
Defensive mechanisms
- All defense mechanisms are ways of avoiding contact that allow us to see how a particular individual prevents contact with the internal and / or external world. When we make contact we do it with the exterior and with the interior. We assimilate the experience from within. It is through contact that I discriminate what I am from what I am not and this implies a permanent and dynamic balance with the environment, which implies that my identity will be immersed in a process of continuous transformation Repression Projection Reactive Formation Displacement Identification Denial Sublimation Regression Rationalization Intellectualization Isolation
In people
- A crisis is an acute and transitory disorder of the cognitive and emotional abilities to face a life situation, which contains constructive possibilities to solve it if the capacities to adjust can be enhanced
