Crisis intervention is brief and effective help for individuals in a state of psychological imbalance to get them through their psychological crisis and restore their physical, psychological and social functioning levels. Crisis intervention is a short and urgent psychotherapy, essentially a supportive psychotherapy, developed to solve or improve the person’s dilemma, with a focus on problem solving and generally not involving the person’s personality building. The timing of crisis intervention is most appropriate in the acute stage. The intervention process includes listening and caring, clarifying the essence of the problem, encouraging the person to realize his or her potential, rebuilding confidence to cope with the problems faced, and restoring psychological balance. What are the purposes and methods of scientific crisis intervention? The purpose of crisis intervention is to help the person gain autonomy and control over his or her life by releasing the accumulated emotions, changing the perceived attitude towards the crisis event, combining appropriate internal coping, social support and environmental resources, and preventing more serious and lasting trauma and restoring psychological balance. Crisis intervention can be carried out through telephone hotlines, counseling clinics, family and social interventions, letters and the Internet, and on-site interventions. What are the basic steps of scientific crisis intervention? 1, achieve contact, maintain contact, and quickly establish a certain relationship The intervener should make full use of all conditions to establish a certain relationship with the person as soon as possible, so that the person is convinced that he or she is not coping alone, encourage the person to speak up and describe how the crisis occurred and how he or she currently feels, and make an introduction of self and the purpose of intervention, indicate the willingness to seek help, and gain the person’s trust. 2. Crisis assessment and ensure safety quickly determine the severity of the event, the crisis; the person’s coping status with the current crisis; the need for other medical measures such as medication, determine the need for urgent treatment, provide the necessary reassurance and support, and ensure the physical and psychological safety of the person. The following should be assessed: ① cognitive state: the truthfulness and consistency of the perception of the crisis, the scope, the rationality of the interpretation, whether it is exaggerated, the duration of persistence, the possibility of change and motivation; ② emotional state: the form and intensity of emotional expression, whether the emotional state is coordinated with the environment, the universality and specificity of emotional expression, the relationship between emotions and crisis resolution, such as denial, avoidance, etc.; ③ volitional behavior: social function, social contact and frequency, level of agency, self-control, risky behaviors, and determining the risk of harm to self and others; ④ Coping methods, resources, and support systems: what actions and choices help the person, what actions the person will adopt, and what their social support resources are; evaluating the meaning of traumatic events, the impact of trauma on the person’s life, and what problems the person may face in the recovery process problems the person may face in the recovery process; find out if there has been a similar experience before, how it was controlled, etc. After understanding the above, you should review all the problems and judge what is the most important, what needs urgent treatment, etc., so as to prepare for the next step of making intervention plan. 3, the development of intervention goals The highest goal of intervention is to help the person through the crisis, restore mental health, and achieve to promote growth. However, in the specific development of intervention goals, should be based on the specific circumstances of the person concerned, the development of realistic, operational and achievable goals. Intervention goals should be based on a comprehensive assessment of the person, as far as possible to identify resources, seek evidence and methods to address the problem, help the person to develop a clear and realistic goals, and special actions and timetables, and to provide certain coping strategies when necessary. 4.Implementation of intervention Before the specific implementation of the intervention, the person needs to understand that the solution to the problem and to get through the crisis requires the active cooperation and joint efforts of the person; under the premise of the excitation engine, help the person understand that it takes time to accept the meaning of the traumatic event and may face various difficulties, etc. After the short-term goals are achieved and new coping skills are developed, the next goal can be set. By continuously supervising and reinforcing positive changes, the person will be able to successfully resolve the crisis with significant improvement in symptoms while the new coping skills are acquired. Specific implementation interventions include: explaining to the client that emotional activity is a normal response to crisis; encouraging the client to discuss current feelings, such as denial, guilt, grief, and anger; encouraging the client to talk about the past and present; helping the client to rationalize and accept reality and pain; improving the client’s understanding of the real world and separating fantasy from fact; providing coping strategies to help the client establish new Provide coping strategies to help the client establish new support points, move to other areas, and emerge from disabling emotional problems; emphasize the client’s responsibility for behavior and decisions, etc. 5. Achievement of goals and follow-up After active and effective interventions, most clients can successfully pass through the crisis and recover their mental health level. In the implementation of intervention, the intervention goals should be verified and adjusted as necessary according to what is continuously learned, the person’s response and the process of intervention, and the intervention strategy should be adjusted. When the person has made some progress, he or she should be good at summarizing the review in a timely manner. Before the end, the person should also continuously reinforce the use of coping styles, resource utilization, and adaptive skills, so that the person accepts and adapts to changes as much as possible, becomes proficient in new skills and utilization of resources, helps predict and make necessary preparations for the future, and increases self-confidence in handling future stressful events.