Crisis Intervention


The APA defines crisis intervention as a “psychological intervention provided on a short-term, emergency basis for individuals experiencing mental health crises, such as an acute psychotic episode or attempted suicide”.

The purpose of crisis intervention is to help reduce emotional, psychological, physical, and behavioural reactions to life events that can cause a crisis. It helps to bring people from a heightened state back down to their normal level of functioning.

Watch this video in order to get a more complete picture of what a crisis intervention specialist does.