The role of crisis in family crisis intervention: Do crisis experience and crisis change matter?

Channa M.W. Al, Geert Jan J.M. Stams, Peter H. van der Laan and Jessica J. Asscher

Children and Youth Services Review, 2011, vol. 33, issue 6, 991-998

Abstract: Evaluation studies of crisis intervention have focused on prevention of out-of-home placement of children or family functioning, but largely neglected the aspect of crisis. The present study examined crisis in 183 families receiving Family Crisis Intervention (FCI), addressing crisis characteristics and crisis change. In questionnaires children and parents were asked about their definition and experience of crisis and about their need for help. Results show that all families but one were in crisis at the beginning of the intervention, although the perception and extent of crisis differed among respondents. Crisis decreased from baseline to posttest according to clients and crisis intervention workers, but was not absent after the intervention. Combined with an unexpected pattern of reported family balance in the months before FCI, this result challenges the 4-6Â weeks time span assumption of a crisis period. Variations in perception of crisis, clients' need for help, and possible crisis patterns are discussed, addressing theoretical and practical implications for family crisis intervention.

Keywords: Crisis; intervention; Family; Evaluation; Effectiveness; Perception; Child; and; youth; care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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