Crisis Intervention

Mission

The overall goal of RDCI’s Crisis Intervention Coaching is to move a family from Crisis Intervention Coaching to Crisis Prevention Coaching, empowering the family to be their own coaches, thus preventing any future Crises from occurring.

Our Five Major Objectives with Each Family

1. Objective 1: The family will reconnect with the participant to create more trusting relationships.
   • Train the family to use positive communication techniques based on unconditional love and acceptance void of any negativity.
   • Train the participant to use positive communication techniques based on unconditional love and acceptance void of any negativity.
2. Objective 2: The participant will effectively cope in the face of challenge in a more productive manner.
   • Teach the parents/family coping skills to allow the family to build self-efficacy and internal strength to face future challenges.
   • Teach participant coping skills to allow the participant to build self-efficacy (the belief in oneself that one can achieve any objective) and internal strength to face future challenges.
   • Teach the parents/family stress management techniques to reduce stress levels in their life.
   • Teach the participant stress management techniques to reduce stress levels in their life.
3. Objective 3: The participant will gain confidence, permitting them to make healthier choices and more appropriate decisions, thus achieving their goals.
   • Challenge the participant’s (adolescent or adult) ineffective beliefs, thus: Providing the opportunity for them to change the way they think Improving their judgments Empowering them to achieve success by using proven strategies (All strategies have been proven in educational setting, research studies, and our continuous evaluation of its application with our families)
4. Objective 4:The family and participant will learn to problem solve any future challenge before it becomes a crisis.
   • Teach the parents/family our proven step-by-step Problem Solving Strategy.
   • Teach the participant our proven step-by-step Problem Solving Strategy.
5. Objective 5:The participant (adolescent or adult) will accomplish educational, social, physical, and professional goals.
   • Educate entire family on how to create an efficient Family Plan of action to hold the family and the participant (adolescent or adult) responsible for their words and actions to ensure the fulfillment of the created goals in a step-by-step process.
   • Educate participant (adolescent or adult) on how to create an efficient life plan of action to hold the family and the participant (adolescent or adult) responsible for their words and actions to ensure the fulfillment of the created goals in a step-by-step process.