Who Is Crisis Intervention?

Crisis intervention also refers to the methods used to offer immediate, short-term help to individuals who experience an event that produces emotional, mental, physical, and behavioral distress or problems.

What is meant by crisis intervention?

Immediate, short-term counseling (talking with a professional counselor) to stop a critical emotional incident (e.g., attempted suicide or drug overdose) from getting worse. Crisis intervention is not meant to solve the problem that led up to the crisis.

Who is the father of crisis intervention?

Caplan and Lindemann often are credited as pioneers in the field of crisis intervention. Their work began after a tragic event in Boston in 1942, the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, in which 493 people died.