Life Space Crisis Intervention.
Life Space Crisis Intervention is a nationally recognised professional training program. It has an advanced and interactive therapeutic strategy for turning crisis situations into learning opportunities for youths with chronic patterns of self-defeating behaviours (feelings of worthlessness and helplessness). LSCI views problems and stressful incidents as opportunities for growth, insight, learning and change. LSCI is about talking with students who are under extreme stress or are in crisis. It is a non-physical intervention program that involves a verbal process that uses a stressful incident as the format for teaching and helping students gain insight into their manner of thinking and behaving, solve the problems and creates relationships between teachers and students. There are six different stages of LSCI.
1) Student Crisis - Drain off the student’s intense emotions by acknowledging feelings.
2) Student Timeline — Teachers can use affirming and listening skills to discover student’s point of view and perception of situation.
3) Student Central Issues — Staff should Identify student’s vital interest and determine if the crisis represents is one of the siz LSCI patterns of self-defeating behaviour.
4) Student Insight — Staff should use interviewing skills to help students recognise and change their specific pattern of self-defeating behaviour patterns.
5) Student New Skills — Staff should teach the new social skills needed for behavior to be changed and for self-defeating behaviour to be overcome.
6) Student Transfer of Training — Staff should help prepare the student to re-enter the classroom and participate in on-going activities.
Below is a video that shows an example of how a teacher might move through a LSCI plan with a student.
1) Student Crisis - Drain off the student’s intense emotions by acknowledging feelings.
2) Student Timeline — Teachers can use affirming and listening skills to discover student’s point of view and perception of situation.
3) Student Central Issues — Staff should Identify student’s vital interest and determine if the crisis represents is one of the siz LSCI patterns of self-defeating behaviour.
4) Student Insight — Staff should use interviewing skills to help students recognise and change their specific pattern of self-defeating behaviour patterns.
5) Student New Skills — Staff should teach the new social skills needed for behavior to be changed and for self-defeating behaviour to be overcome.
6) Student Transfer of Training — Staff should help prepare the student to re-enter the classroom and participate in on-going activities.
Below is a video that shows an example of how a teacher might move through a LSCI plan with a student.
The following links provide more in-depth information about the LSCI program, training, and other resources that can help professionals consider how to handle different situations.