Crisis Management Critic Paper.docx

GRADUATE SCHOOL

OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY General Luna Road, Baguio City Philippines 2600

Telefax No.: (074) 442-3071

Website: www.ubaguio.edu

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Name of Student: Marilyn M. Duan-Balo Subject and Schedule: Crisis Intervention & Management/ 1400H to 1730H Date: 02 February 2019 Activity: Critic Paper Facilitator: Marie joy Macli-ing Capdos PhD

Crisis Intervention: An Opportunity to Change In our daily lives, a word crisis is referring to our difficult times or any trouble that we encounter just like financial crisis. Crisis Intervention is a technique used to a problem solving. The ultimate purpose is to reduce the emotional turmoil of a person. On the other hand, Crisis Management is the application of the technique being used which is originally designed to deal with potential risk. Individual’s inability to deal effectively with stressful changes in the environment is one of the common reasons of internal crisis. Internal crisis is a situation inside or an emotion coming from within which is includes spiritual and mental life. In a certain organization, it is the situation inside of the organization or agency. In Hostage Taking, the inability to deal effectively with the hostage-taker is fatal, imminent risk of danger, violent and often chaotic. Oftentimes, the hostage-taker is depressed and mostly suicidal so they need a negotiator that is skilled practical psychologist to understand deeply what the former is going through. Intense negotiation may takes an hour or even days and require most every types of communication strategy. In Demolition, the inability to deal effectively with the changes in the environment is usually resulted to risk of danger and death both in the demolition team and the respondentresident. The residency on that area must know in advance the date of the demolition, the authority to demolish and relocation site. Oftentimes, the demolition leader must require a highest form of communication skills to gain the heart of the people to agree to his side. The Mass Demonstration is not that chaotic compared to Hostage taking and Demolition provided that they have a permit to form an assembly or permit to conduct rally. The militant is the people marching and form a mass demonstration to show their disagreement, protest against government and often deal with political, economic, and social issues. Demonstrations can be nonviolent or violent depending on the blockades or by the actions of the uniform personnel. Sometimes, violent situations are caused by the preemptive or offensive use of these weapons which can provoke, destabilize, or escalate a conflict. The US Historian, Eric Hobsbawm stated that that “next to sex, the activity combining bodily experience and intense emotion to the highest degree is the participation in a mass demonstration at a time of great public exaltation. Unlike sex, which is essentially individual, it is by its nature collective like sex it implies some physical action—marching, chanting slogans, singing—through which the merger of the individual in the mass, which is the essence of the collective experience”.

1 | 3 https://www.google.com/search?q=crisis+definition, www.wikipedia.org,http://www.chanrobles.com/guidelinesgoverninglaborelations http://www.minddisorders.co, www.counseling.org/resources/library, www.likein.com.ph “The fate of the wounded rests in the hands of the ones who apply the first dressing.” Nicholas, Senn

GRADUATE SCHOOL

OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY General Luna Road, Baguio City Philippines 2600

Telefax No.: (074) 442-3071

Website: www.ubaguio.edu

E-mail Address: [email protected]

Following this is the Labor Strikes; the inability to deal effectively with the stressful changes in the workplace oftentimes resulted to strikes but not chaotic or fatal. Unlike in Hostage Taking, Demolitions, and Mass Demonstration, the right to strike is a constitutional. It is a legal right of the workers to conduct labor strikes while the employer has a legal right to conduct lockouts. Since it is constitutional, the law provides reportorial requirements to have a valid strike or lockout just like a notice to be filed with the Labor Department and must supported by a majority vote of the members of the union or of the members of the Board of Directors. During a strike or lockout, either of the parties is prohibited from committing illegal acts. The ability to deal effectively or communicate effectively with employees or employers may result to productivity, retention and peace within the work place. So, the employers must have effective communication skills to deal with his employees and to know their mental, emotional or social state to avoid strikes, mass demonstration, or worst, hostage taking. As a sort of summary, the article is focusing on psychological disequilibrium of an individual including the signs and symptoms that may indicate a problem resulting to crisis or traumatic situation. It was mentioned that after the identification of a problem and assessment of the crisis and its causes, the crisis intervention may come in. This is a certain point which is integral to complete the intervention process. Crisis intervention is a process by which certain weakest points must identify, best time for planning and time for recognizing necessary steps to attained success and to restore balance and reduce the effects of the crisis in life. To end their article, the authors mentioned about the suggestion of a Chinese Characters “wei ji” that means “In a critical situation, crisis truly holds the opportunity for change” But how? To critic Ma’am’s Brenda A. Stevens and Lynette S. Ellerbrock Article, their ideas are jumping to a conclusion that crisis truly holds the opportunity to change without mentioning on how that “crisis” turns into “change”. Needless to say that the authors did not even try to mentioned who is the specific Chinese author necessary to their quotation since they are quoting someone’s word. They are just simply stated to end their article that “crisis truly holds the opportunity for change” without any illustrated statement on how that can be. But, truly to my mind, the title should be crisis intervention in a psychological disequilibrium context because that’s what the article is focusing to. There is no specific research question or hypothesis is noted but the authors present the overall context as qualitative study. It provides insights, opinions, and motivations to have clearly understanding/grasp on the intervention if crisis occurs. However, there is no systematic inquiry but the discussion is clearly stated guidelines, a description of psychological disequilibrium, an interpretation and necessary steps to restore balance and reduce the effects of the crisis in life for further quantitative research.

2 | 3 https://www.google.com/search?q=crisis+definition, www.wikipedia.org,http://www.chanrobles.com/guidelinesgoverninglaborelations http://www.minddisorders.co, www.counseling.org/resources/library, www.likein.com.ph “The fate of the wounded rests in the hands of the ones who apply the first dressing.” Nicholas, Senn

GRADUATE SCHOOL

OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY General Luna Road, Baguio City Philippines 2600

Telefax No.: (074) 442-3071

Website: www.ubaguio.edu

E-mail Address: [email protected]

In conclusion, this critic paper is focusing on the final paragraph of the article. The supposed goal of the article is to emphasize the importance of “wei ji” that means “In a critical situation, crisis truly holds the opportunity for change”. But, it turns out that said article is explaining crisis situation, identifying a person in crisis and assessment on the crisis's impact on the individual. Corollary, such article is very significant issue on how to intervene the Crises in certain crisis situation. It actually gives the reader the true picture of a person under stress or an individual experiencing crisis that resulted to a conceptual crisis intervention. The subject Crisis intervention and Management are very broad topic but because the authors are explaining on the psychological equilibrium of a person under stress to include the steps on identification and assessment of a worker in intervening the actual crisis, then it is easy for us to understand that there is such thing as identification and assessment on pre-intervention process. The importance of Crisis Intervention: An Opportunity to Change is generally intended to educate the reader that certainly crisis results from a person’s negative perception of a situation and there is psychological impact to the person based on that serious situation. Truly, if you really know where the crisis situation originated then you knew already how to adjust the intervention fit for a certain situation because crisis intervention is an emergency first aid and the fate of the person experiencing crisis rely in the palms of the one who first intervene.

3 | 3 https://www.google.com/search?q=crisis+definition, www.wikipedia.org,http://www.chanrobles.com/guidelinesgoverninglaborelations http://www.minddisorders.co, www.counseling.org/resources/library, www.likein.com.ph “The fate of the wounded rests in the hands of the ones who apply the first dressing.” Nicholas, Senn