Crisis Intervention Strategies

1. What are effective crisis intervention strategies used for each of the following: a high-risk suicidal client, a middle-risk suicidal client, and a low-risk suicidal client?

Effective crisis intervention strategies for high-risk suicidal clients include admission to a psychiatric hospital to treat the client’s depression and or other emotional problems (Kanel, 2015). The middle risk suicidal client’s crisis intervention strategies are developing a non-suicide contract with the client while being seen by the crisis worker (Kanel, 2015). Another intervention strategy to be used for middle risk clients is to monitor them daily with a phone call (Kanel, 2015). For low risk suicidal clients, they can be treated on an outpatient basis and the

They also work because all of them make the clients feel that somebody is concerned about their well-being whether it is a high risk client or a low risk client.

3. How will you as a human service professional be able to read between the lines to understand when the suicidal risk is high for a client?

As a human services professional, I could read between the lines by using a suicide assessment. There are many assessments used to determine whether or not a client is a high risk for suicide. For example, the Beck depression inventory consists of 21 questions to determine if an individual is depressed which can be helpful since depression is linked to suicide (Kanel, 2015).

4. How comfortable would you be in asking the questions necessary to provide the proper interventions and following through on the interventions? Explain your answer, and provide examples to illustrate it.

I would feel comfortable asking the necessary questions and following through on the interventions. I would feel comfortable because I know by asking these questions and providing the intervention, I could potentially be saving someone’s