Reference no: EM133322347
Analyze a counselor's role and responsibilities in a crisis response. Summarize the responsibilities of the counselor within the mental health component of the crisis response system in order to identify the type of necessary training for the role of the counselor.
Questions
1. In a crisis, are there critical time lines to be considered? If so, what are they?
2. Is there a developmental time sequence to a crisis? If so describe it.
3. Considering a community-wide crisis, who are the local people or organizations that I need to contact? In what order or sequence or time do I do that?
4. Considering a community-wide crisis, who are the state and national people or organizations that I need to contact? In what order or sequence or time do I do that?
5. What helpful or positive role can the local media play in helping to resolve the crisis? How does one facilitate this?
6. What helpful or positive role can the national media play in helping to resolve the crisis? How does one facilitate this?
7. Who are the critical players on your emergency management team? Why are they critical?
8. What is the worst eco-systemic crisis you can imagine? Why?
9. What kind of training, education, and experience do you believe should be required to be an effective and competent manager of a community-wide crisis such as the one you described above?
10. Given a natural disaster such as a community-wide crisis, how do you go about coordinating and communicating an effective response?
11. When the crisis situation exceeds your local capacities and resources to respond, how and when do you know who to call for help?
12. What are your back-up resources? Do you have redundancy in your system? In case I or any of my staff become incapacitated for any reason, are there persons available who can effectively step in and assume the vacated responsibilities?
13. What kind of emergency crisis interventions are going to be provided for those who survive? Who is going to provide the interventions? When will it happen?
14. When and under what conditions will you declare the crisis situation terminated?
15. Do you believe that current stress reduction procedures, such as CISD for emergency workers, are helpful? If yes, how so; if no, how not?
16. What steps do you take to take care of your own stress and trauma and that of your staff?
17. What are the response team's goals, functions, operations, organizational structure, and responsibilities?
18. Who is in charge of what security provisions?
19. What balance needs to be maintained between security of staff and providing human services?
20. What kinds of training do staff receive to prepare for emergencies?
21. What screening devices are used for volunteer selection? Are they reliable and valid?
22. What security personnel will be needed? Where and when?
23. Are there emergency contingency plans for a variety of problems? Do staff members know what is expected of them under varying circumstances?
24. Does the crisis response management team have a protocol for dealing with violent situations?
25. Who is in charge of responding to threats or physical violence?