Question

How to achieve reassuring effects during a crisis?

Problem description

MTA invests much time in creating a bond with the person seeking help, and this from an fundamental attitude that will prevent us to go too much into the crisis in order to build a psychotherapeutic project.  During the phase of receipt of demands, the system or context is not immediately involved in the interventions or not seen as a whole.  This might look not conform to what could be expected from a mobile crisis team

Impact - effect

We do not get immediate into goals and actions. We work step by step, with the client, on a treatment plan. Sometimes we meet our own limits: for example, not able to offer a treatment plan for the underlying pathology and need to refer, or, the inability to provide a constant presence

To do

To do: can the MTA team learn from the experience that formulating underlying (diagnostic) hypotheses can provide a reassuring effect during a crisis? Can the MTA team put more emphasis on the healthy resources during times of crisis? This emphasizes the importance of discussing the plan with the client: proposing a treatment plan, discussing this with the client, consider reviews and adjustments

Theme

Crisis and risk

Topic

Perspectives (point of view patient, environment, professional)

Reference -  contact

Bregwin Vantieghem, Marleen Lierman

Mobile team

2A

Project

Ieper-Diksmuide

Intership abroad - place

E.R.I.C.

Date

April 2014