Life space crisis intervention
The purpose of Life Space Crisis Intervention, or LSCI, is to decrease the number of student crises that happen in a school or classroom. A large part of LSCI is the Conflict Cycle, which can be viewed below. The Conflict Cycle talks about how a stressful incident can be affected by the student's irrational beliefs about the situation as well as the student's self-concept. The stressful incident then causes the student to have some sort of an emotional reaction and react with some sort of a behavior. This is where the teacher is often involved in a conflict. When a student reacts with a problem behavior, teachers often react in a negative way that causes the student to build more irrational beliefs, possibly about how the teacher does not like the student, and these irrational beliefs then negatively impact the student's self-concept. In this cycle, students are often punished afterward, but in the end, the student does not learn anything. The one thing that the teacher has control of in the Conflict Cycle is the teacher's own reaction to the situation. This is where LSCI comes in.
LSCI uses a six-stage process, which, after a crisis has occurred, allows for teaching and student learning. The first three stages are diagnostic stages, while the last three stages are called reclaiming stages. Student Crisis is the first step, and in this step it is the teacher's job to help the student calm down. Stage 2 is Student Time Line. In this stage, the student shares his or her perception of what happened and the teacher validates the student's feelings. Next, in Student Central Issue, the teacher tries to help the student figure out what the one main problem or self-defeating behavior was. Stage 4, Student Insight, is the first of the reclaiming strategies. At this stage, the teacher helps the student to gain some insight on the student's self-defeating behavior. Student New Skills is where the teacher teaches the student new skills to help him or her to overcome his or her self-defeating behaviors. Finally, Stage 6 is the Student Transfer of Training. This is when the student takes his or her new skills that he or she has been taught and uses them to help him or her reenter the classroom. A visual of this six-stage process can be found below or can be viewed in context along with the Crisis Cycle in the LSCI Article below.
To find out more about LSCI, please check out the articles below.
To find out more about LSCI, please check out the articles below.
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Dawson Research LSCI Article | |
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