{"id":2402,"date":"2008-09-24T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2008-09-24T07:51:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T12:51:50","slug":"crisis-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/24\/crisis-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"crisis intervention [back by popular demand]…"},"content":{"rendered":"
During World War II, the American Military came up with a creative plan to deal with soldiers who had mental problems in combat. They moved them behind enemy lines out of earshot. of gunfire; gave them clean clothes, good food, a chance to talk about things, and a "ration of rum;" then they sent them back to the front. It was a raging success – 82% return to duty [as opposed to 18% before], and very little chronic mental disability.<\/div>\n

The success of this program lead to a radical revision in mental health care in U.S. civilian life. People "in crisis" don’t think well, and make decisions that can lead to lifelong disasters and fears. So, if you see someone in emotional crisis, pull out all stops. Take them to a neutral place, medicate them if needed, talk and talk about the contemporary problem only, then put them back on the road of life. In the right cases, it works.<\/p>\n

What one learns is that this is a great technique for normal [or near normal] people in abnormal circumstances. There are plenty of other people for whom such a technique is a disaster, near malpractice. There are, for example, plenty of people who live crisis lives, and actually create crises to "get help." All crisis intervention teaches them is to look for crisis interveners. There are also a lot of situations where an emotional crisis points to a much deeper problem that needs intensive investigation. A classic example is a domestic disturbance that can be calmed down with crisis intervention methods, but overlooks the fact that there’s an abusive sadist and a battered woman or child left to go at it again and again. So, as useful as crisis intervention is as a technique, it’s best used by people who have the intuition to know when to do something else when needed.<\/p>\n

George Bush and Associates are using Crisis Intervention techniques exclusively for all problems.<\/strong><\/font>  Katrina? Send in Brownie. Stock Market dips, gas prices up? Send us all a check. Fannie May and Freddy Mac in trouble? Buy them. The same with A.I.G. These are symptoms of deep, longstanding problems. These crises are like the night when the battered woman finally calls the cops. You don’t calm things down and move on. If you do, the next call might be for an ambulance to pick up a dead woman and her children.<\/p>\n

George Bush and Republicans in general do not understand these distinctions at all. <\/strong><\/font>They operate on the squeaky wheel gets oiled<\/strong><\/em><\/font> principle. I say, leave it alone until we get an adult in the White House, and send a check to Obama\/Biden today.<\/strong><\/font> They’re our only<\/u> shot at finding some thinking adults to look at our economy. That’s where our check went today…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During World War II, the American Military came up with a creative plan to deal with soldiers who had mental problems in combat. They moved them behind enemy lines out of earshot. of gunfire; gave them clean clothes, good food, a chance to talk about things, and a "ration of rum;" then they sent them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}