Role of counselor in crisis response

  Part 1: Interview

To learn more about crisis intervention and trauma-informed community-based strategies (such as Psychological First Aid), contact a licensed professional individual to interview, in person or on the telephone, who knows of an existing crisis response plan. Identify the person you interview and their specific job or role, such as crisis counselor or a member of the Red Cross or Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), or therapists who work with victims of PTSD or are involved in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), and arrange an interview. Once you arrange a personal interview, develop a set of open-ended questions that will allow you to gain a clear and complete picture of the plan as it currently exists. (See the sample interview questions provided within the assignment.)

Ask your interviewee to give you a specific example of an actual crisis and the details of the various roles that are involved in the plan that is utilized, including any mental health professional. Examine what you are told by the interviewee, and compare it to the identified elements recommended for response plans in the Mental Health All-Hazards Disaster Planning Guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS, 2003), provided in the Resources. Part 2: Description and Analysis

Describe and analyze a counselor’s role and responsibilities as a member of interdisciplinary community outreach and emergency management response teams 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.

To successfully complete this project, you will be expected to do the following: Compare and contrast the elements of a real-world example of an emergency management plan, obtained through your personal interview of a professional in the field, to the elements identified in the course studies, particularly the Mental Health All-Hazards Disaster Planning Guidance (USDHHS, 2003), provided in the Resources. Summarize the responsibilities of the counselor, including the professional role, functions, and relationships as a member of a crisis response plan during a local, regional, or national crisis, disaster, or other trauma-causing event (CACREP, 2016). Describe in detail the specific skills and knowledge required by a counselor in order to function effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary emergency management response team. Describe the types of training a counselor requires to develop the required skills and knowledge relevant to emergency management. Exhibit proficiency in effective, credible academic writing and critical thinking skills.

Sections in paper (please use the bolded headings and the infromation under them and in the instructions to write the paper):

  

**Role of the Counselor in Emergency Management Teams

 This first section is your paper’s introduction. Note that it does not have a heading (Introduction); its position at the beginning of the body of the paper implies that it is the introduction. In the body of your paper, indent the first line of each paragraph.  Please cite your textbook and at least 4 articles throughout the paper. 

**Interview with an Emergency Professional 

Summarize interview conducted with a professinal who has knowledge of emergency plan. Descriptive narrative.  example of an actual crisis and the details of the various roles that are involved in the plan, including mental health professionals    

**  Comparison with the Mental Health All-Hazzards Planning Guidance

Examine what the interviewee tells you and compare it to the identified elements recommended for response plans in the Mental Health All-Hazards Disaster Planning Guidance, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS, 2003), provided in the Assignment’s Resources. (See the Planning Guidance’s APPENDIX A: ELEMENTS OF AN ALL-HAZARDS STATE DISASTER MENTAL HEALTH PLAN). Support your discussion with additional professional literature published within the past 10 years. (DO NOT review articles that have been written before 2007)

**Counselor Responsibilities in Emergency Management

In this section of the paper, summarize the responsibilities of the counselor, including the professional role, functions, and relationships as a member of an interdisciplinary emergency management response team during a local, regional, or national crisis, disaster, or other trauma-causing event.

**Skills, Knowledge, and Training Required for Crisis Counselors 

Describe in detail the specific skills and knowledge required by a counselor in order to function effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary emergency management response team. Support your discussion with examples and relevant information from the professional literature. 

Describe the types of training a counselor requires to acquire the skills and knowledge relevant to emergency responding.

**Included open ended questions used in the interview at the end of the paper. 

NO plagiarism!