BHT 200 - Crisis Intervention and De-Escalation Strategies

3 Credit Hours

This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and practical skills for navigating a variety of different crisis situations and cultivating stress management approaches to promote long-term safety and well-being. Students will obtain foundational knowledge on initial crisis intervention, verbal de-escalation and assessment, crisis negotiation, resolution and/or referral, with emphasis on safety. Students will explore concepts of crisis intervention and crisis case handling, telephone and online crisis counseling, posttraumatic stress disorder, suicidal and homicidal ideation, sexual assault and intimate partner violence, family crisis, school crisis, violent behavior, disasters, and personal loss, bereavement and grief. Students will further consider crises that can arise from working in high-stress professional settings by exploring concepts of burnout, vicarious traumatization, and compassion fatigue.

Prerequisites: BHT 100

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